Eugene Woodbury was born and raised in upstate New York. After serving for two years in the Japan Tokyo South Mission, he graduated from Brigham Young University with degrees in Japanese and TESOL.

His stories and essays have appeared in The New Era, Sunstone, Cricket Magazine, The American Gardener, and Clubhouse. He has twice been a Utah Original Writing Competition finalist and is a recipient of the Sunstone Foundation Moonstone Award for short fiction.

He lives in Orem, Utah, where he works as a free-lance writer, publisher, and translator.