Tobias S. Buckell was born in Grenada in the Caribbean,[12][13] an island country in the West Indies and Caribbean Sea, where he lived on his family’s boat. Throughout his childhood, he and his family moved to live throughout the Virgin Islands (British and American between 1989 and 1995) until Hurricane Marilyn decimated his family’s boat house.
He and his family moved to Bluffton, Ohio when he was 16, where he eventually went on to attend and graduate from Bluffton University in 2000,[10] as well as Clarion Workshop in 1999. About that same time, he sold his first short story, "Fish Merchant", to writer and editor Scott Edelman of Science Fiction Age, who assisted in its 2000 publication.[1] In addition to this first publication, another of Buckell’s stories, “In Orbite Medievali” won the Writers and Illustrators of the Future Volume 16 quarterly contest that same year, hosted by Ron Collins.[7]
Tobias S. Buckell, though “white passing” in his own terms with Locus Magazine, proclaims his biracial identity. Through his involvement with the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association, as well as his office in it, he’s discussed his own identity, as well as further authorial diversity, at length; and in a similar regard, several of his works involve and incorporate the history and culture of the Caribbean.[1][7]
He has performed further advocacy in his own site-space through openness of his struggles with ADHD and dyslexia;[13] beyond these discussions, he has sought to provide his own experiences as a guide for others in his circumstances.[14]
Though not American,[3] he holds a permanent residence in Bluffton, Ohio, with his wife Emily, as well as their two daughters.[1]
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