Gary A. Braunbeck

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Gary A. Braunbeck (born July 1960) is an American science fiction, fantasy, mystery and horror author.

Braunbeck was born in Newark, Ohio (the city that serves as the model for the fictitious Cedar Hill in many of his stories). He writes in a number of different genres, but principally horror, and his work has been nominated for the International Horror Guild Award. In 2003, his short story "Duty" was honored with the Horror Writers Association Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Short Fiction.

Nearly 200 of his short stories have appeared in various publications. Some of his most popular stories are mysteries that have appeared in the Cat Crimes anthology series.

Braunbeck also teaches creative writing at Seton Hill University, Pennsylvania, in an innovative low-residency Master's degree program in Writing Popular Fiction.

He has also served as co-editor for the latest installment of the Masques horror-anthology series created by Jerry Williamson, Masques V. For a time he was also a regular contributor to Everything2 and served briefly as a content editor there.

In 2005-2006, Mr. Braunbeck served a term as President of the Horror Writers Association. He is married to Lucy A. Snyder, a science fiction/fantasy writer, and they reside together in Columbus, Ohio.