Laird Barron

Laird Barron
Born 1970
Palmer, Alaska
Occupation Writer, sled dog racer
Nationality United States
Period 2000–
Genre Speculative fiction, fantasy, horror fiction, science fiction, poetry

Laird Samuel Barron (born 1970) is an American author and poet, much of whose work falls within the horror, noir, and dark fantasy genres. He has also been the Managing Editor of the online literary magazine Melic Review. He lives in Upstate New York.[1]

Early life

Barron spent his early years in Alaska.[2] He has described the circumstances of his youth as exceedingly harsh due to his family's dwelling in isolated regions and general poverty.[3]

Career

In Alaska, Barron raced the Iditarod three times during the early 1990s,[2] and worked as fisherman on the Bering Sea.[4]

He retired from racing and moved to Washington in 1994. He became active on the poetry scene,[1] publishing with a number of online journals and eventually serving as the managing editor of the Melic Review.[5] His professional writing debut occurred in 2001 when Gordon Van Gelder published Shiva, Open Your Eye in the September issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. Barron's debut collection, The Imago Sequence & Other Stories, was published in 2007 by Night Shade Books.

He has stated affection for pulp fiction, westerns, and noir, and his work typically combines one or more of these elements with a horrific or weird supernatural intrusion. Barron has referred to the Bible as "the greatest horror story ever told."[6]

In addition to The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Barron's work has been featured in SCI FICTION, Inferno: New Tales of Terror and the Supernatural, Lovecraft Unbound, Black Wings: New Tales of Lovecraftian Horror, and The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy. It has also been reprinted in numerous year's best anthologies and nominated for multiple awards.

He was a 2007 and 2010 Shirley Jackson Award winner for his collections The Imago Sequence and Other Stories and Occultation and Other Stories.[7] "Mysterium Tremendum" won a 2010 Shirley Jackson Award for best novella. He is also a 2009 nominee for his novelette "Catch Hell" [8] Other award nominations include the Crawford Award, Sturgeon Award, International Horror Guild Award, World Fantasy Award, Bram Stoker Award and the Locus Award.

His second novel, The Croning, was published in 2012 by Night Shade Books.[4]

Bibliography

Novels

Collections

Anthologies

Stories

Other writing

References

  1. 1 2 Biography from the author's website
  2. 1 2 David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer, ed. (2006). Year's Best Fantasy 6. Tachyon Publications. ISBN 1-892391-37-6.
  3. ↑ Wolohan, Patrick. "INTERVIEW: Laird Barron", SF Signal Sep. 2009.
  4. 1 2 http://snutchlabs.wordpress.com/2010/10/19/chat-w-laird-barron/
  5. ↑ "Melic Review: Staff", Melic Review.
  6. ↑ Barron, Laird. "Why I Write: Laird Barron", Publishers Weekly July 12, 2010.
  7. ↑ http://www.shirleyjacksonawards.org/sja_2007_winners.php
  8. ↑ http://www.shirleyjacksonawards.org/sja_2009_nominees.php
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