Laird Barron

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Laird Barron (born 1970) is an author and poet, much of whose work is in the horror genre with a decided slant toward the Lovecraftian and the weird. 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 once 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.

Nick Gevers, reviewing for Locus Magazine, has called Barron, "...a miraculous synthesis of Lovecraft and Lucius Shepard."

Barron's 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

[edit] Bibliography

[edit] Selected Stories

"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])
"Hallucigenia," The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction June 2006 (nominated for the Bram Stoker Award [7])