Kenneth Hunter Gordon
Kenneth Hunter Gordon answers to “Kenny,” generally, and only pulls out the Big Name when no other option is available. He feels like a little kid much of the time and thinks that might be his superpower.
His first novel—One Bronze Knuckle, also from Lanternfish—won a Silver Quill award from the League of Utah Writers for Best Adult Fiction, which presupposes children and adults are somehow different creatures, an idea of which Kenny is skeptical.
He is a musician as well as a writer and takes the same approach to both, to wit: if it don’t swing, no one will dance.
Born in northern California, raised in rural northern Utah, atheist father and Episcopalian mother, music school in Los Angeles, then back to the suburbs of Salt Lake City to raise a family and finally finish a BA in English—Kenny has spent much of his life in a gray area between different sets of “others,” a circumstance he hopes gives him an edge in understanding people in general, and you in particular. He is genuinely happy to meet you.
As is well attested, his favorite punctuation mark is the ellipsis. However, lately he has been flirting with the em dash—catching its glance across a crowded page, noticing its spare frame and myriad applications. An informal colon? A double-shot comma? A parenthesis but with a wink and a nudge? The possibilities are irresistible…
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by Kenneth Hunter Gordon
“Kenneth Hunter Gordon weaves a science fiction fantasy fable into a heartfelt tale that would please the Brothers Grimm.”
—Johnny Worthen, best-selling author of The Unseen trilogy, Things Bequeathed and the Coronam Trilogy
In a distant future, a little girl named Anny makes toy mice out of scraps and dust. Anny has never seen a real mouse, just as she’s never seen the planet her family came from many generations ago. All she knows is her home, Tsedt: an isolated village of human colonists’ descendants and their friendly helper robots.
But then one day the Amau arrive in Tsedt: plastic people with luminous eyes, intent on taking young humans to the distant city of Harbor to be educated. It’s not long before Anny is flown away to a place unlike any she’s seen before.
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Available March 17, 2026
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