Kosmatka was born and raised in northwest Indiana where he worked for more than a decade in the steel industry. After moving to Seattle with his family, he worked for several years as a video game writer before returning to the Midwest.

Novels edit

• The Games (2012)
• Prophet of Bones (2013)
• The Flicker Men (2015)^[1]

Video games edit

• Dota 2 (2013)
• Portal 2 (2011)

Short Speculative Fiction edit

• "The Beast Adjoins," The Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy 2021.
• "The One Who Isn't" Lightspeed Magazine. July, 2016
• "The Stone War" F&Sf, May, 2016
• "The Bewilderness of Lions" Asimov's. March, 2016
• "Chasing Ivory" Asimov's. Jan, 2016
• "Cry Room," Nightmare Magazine, Feb, 2013.
• "Haplotype 1402," Asimov's Science Fiction, July 2013
• "The Color Least Used by Nature," F&SF, Jan, 2012.
• "Escape He Done," Cemetery Dance Magazine, 2011.
• "In-fall" Lightspeed Magazine, December, 2010.
• "Blood Dauber," Asimov's, a collaboration with Michael Poore, Oct/Nov 2009.
• "Limited Penetrance, Variable Expression," The Human Genre Project, July 2009.
• "The Ascendant," Subterranean Online, Spring 2009.
• "Divining Light," Asimov's, 2008.
• "The Art of Alchemy," Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2008.
• "N-words," Seeds of Change, J.J. Adams editor, 2008.
• "The Prophet of Flores," Asimov's, 2007.
• "Deadnauts," Ideomancer, 2007.
• "Doxology," City Slab, 2007.
• "Bitterseed," Asimov's, 2006.
• "The God Engine," Asimov's Science Fiction, Oct-Nov 2005
• "Quicksilver," Spirits Magazine.
• "The Extinction of Ursus Theodorus," Deep Outside

Short Literary Fiction edit

• "Last Exit of Highway 94," Kindred Voices, 2006.
• "Indiana Harbor Jones," Workers' Anthology Audio CD, 2006.
• "Steel," Spirits Magazine.

Essays edit

• "Philip K. Dick the Shaman," Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep #18, Boom Studios, 2010.

Plays edit

• Steel, a one act play

• Official website
• Story behind Prophet of Bones - A World Where Creationists Were Right, a science thriller
• Ted Kosmatka at IMDb