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 Gary
A. Braunbeck was born in Newark, Ohio (the city that serves as the model for
the fictitious Cedar Hill in many of his stories) in July of 1960. A Recovering
Catholic who once briefly studied for the priesthood, Gary can usually be found
holed up in his office writing stories and novels in any number of genres. He
has worked as a grocery store clerk, a carny "stick", an animal groomer,
a cable television salesman (a job at which he lasted one day), a bartender,
a waiter, a short-order cook, an habilitation supervisor for developmentally
disabled adults, an actor (specifically Summer Stock and Dinner Theatre, as
well as being an extra in one movie and one television mini-series), a janitor
(several stints at that one), a musician, a newspaper reporter, a clown for
childrens' birthday parties, and is currently a Creative Writing instructor
with Seton Hill College where he teaches in an innovative Master's Degree program
in Writing Popular Fiction. He is also currently the president of the Horror
Writers' Association.
He made his first small press sale (for 1/2 cent a word and contributor copies)
to the now-defunct Eldritch Tales Magazine in 1980, and made his first
professional sale (to Twilight Zone's Night Cry) in 1985. Since then
he has gone on to sell nearly 200 short stories to a variety of markets (Western,
Science Fiction, Mainstream, Mystery, Romance, and, of course, Horror). He has
to date published 9 collections of short stories, as well as 7 novels. Upcoming
books include the collection Destinations
Unknown (comprised of 3 original novellas about traveling by car) and
the novel Prodigal Blues (his first foray into non-supernatural horror).
In 2003 his short story "Duty" was honored with the Horror Writers'
Association Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Short Fiction.
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