Since making his first fiction sale in 1980 to Eldritch Tales, and his first national fiction sale to Twilight Zone’s NIGHT CRY MAGAZINE in 1985, Gary A. Braunbeck has written more than 200 short stories, a dozen novels, and about twenty novellas. Though most associated with horror and dark fiction, he has also written westerns, literary fiction, mysteries, humor (really!), fantasy, and poetry.
He has won seven Bram Stoker Awards, one International Horror Guild Award, and two Shocklines Shocker Awards, and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and World Fantasy Award. His stories have been translated into Arabic, Chinese, Czech, French, German, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish.
Many of his stories are set in the Cedar Hill universe, a fictionalized version of Newark, Ohio, where he was born in 1960 to union factory workers Frank and Mary. He spent much of his childhood watching movies at the Midland theater (which appears frequently in the Cedar Hill stories), which formed the basis of his encyclopedic knowledge of cinema.
In 2005-2006, he served as President of the Horror Writer’s Association and is currently active in Authors Against Banned Books.
Gary currently lives in Dayton, Ohio with his wife Andy, partner Janet, and a ghost named Carlos whom he picked up while house-hunting.