Laird Barron

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Laird Barron (born 1970) is an author and poet, much of whose work is in the horror genre. He has also been the Managing Editor of the online literary magazine Melic Review. He lives in Washington.

Barron was born in Palmer, Alaska and raised in a wilderness setting. The son of dogsledder John Barron [1], he competed in the Iditarod three times, and at one time owned a professional sled dog racing kennel. He has also worked in the tree service industry, as a fisherman on the Bering Sea, and as a personal strength trainer.

His fiction has appeared in Sci Fiction, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction and the Year's Best Fantasy and Horror. His poetry has appeared in Eclectica, pith [sic], Stirring, 3rd Muse, and Vowell Movement; much of it is available online.

1 Bibliography
2 References
3 External resources
4 See Also

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"Hour of the Cyclops", Three-Lobed Burning Eye Summer 2000
"Shiva, Open Your Eye", The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction September 2001
"Old Virginia", The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction February 2003 (nominated for the International Horror Guild Award [2])
"Bulldozer", Sci Fiction August 2004 (nominated for the International Horror Guild Award [3])
"Proboscis", The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction February 2005 (nominated for the International Horror Guild Award [4])
"The Imago Sequence", The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction May 2005 (nominated for the International Horror Guild Award [5]) (nominated for the World Fantasy Award [6])
"Parallax", Sci Fiction, September 2005
"The Royal Zoo Is Closed," Phantom No. Zero World Fantasy Convention, 2006
"Hallucigenia," The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction June 2006
"The Forest," Inferno October 2007