Gary A. Braunbeck was born in Newark, Ohio (the city that serves as the model for his fictional town of Cedar Hill, where much of his fiction is set). His work has received seven Bram Stoker Awards, an International Horror Guild Award, and has been nominated for the World Fantasy Award. He has twice been a guest instructor at the Odyssey Fantasy Writers Workshop. Visit him on the web at www.garybraunbeck.com or become his Patreon sponsor at www.patreon.com/GaryABraunbeck.