Bio:Michael Marano

Michael Marano is a literary horror and dark science fiction writer, with stories in The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 11 and Outsiders: 22 All-New Stories from the Edge; his first novel Dawn Song won the Bram Stoker and International Horror Guild Awards. He is a former Fiction Editor of the award-winning dark fiction magazine Chiaroscuro (www.chizine.com). Stories From the Plague Years, a collection of Marano's new and reprinted short fiction, published by Cemetery Dance Publications, was named one of the Top Ten Horror publications of 2011 by Booklist. His novella Displacement was nominated for a 2011 Shirley Jackson Award. Stories From the Plague Years was reprinted as a limited edition trade paperback in 2012 by ChiZine Publications of Toronto, who will also be reprinting Dawn Song in 2013, which will be followed by two sequels, The Diaspora and Winter Requiem.

Since 1990, he has also been reviewing movies and doing pop culture commentary for the Public Radio Satellite System program Movie Magazine International, produced in San Francisco and syndicated in more than 111 markets in the US and Canada. Mike is a former Writing instructor at Buffalo State College, and his non-fiction has appeared in venues such as The Boston Phoenix, The Weekly Dig, The Independent Weekly, Paste Magazine, SuicideGirls, and Science Fiction Universe. Marano is a leading critic of horror films and fiction, with a column on horror films in Cemetery Dance Magazine and book reviews appearing in journals such as Dead Reckonings.

He is currently an Instructor at Grub Street, a non-profit creative writing center based in Boston, where his classes on applying literary techniques to the writing of genre fiction have been consistently popular. He can be reached via www.michaelmarano.com and at www.facebook.com/michael.marano. He Tweets at twitter.com/MikeMarano