Laird Barron

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Laird Barron

Born 1970
Palmer, Alaska
Occupation writer, Sled Dog Racer
Nationality United States
Genres Speculative fiction, Fantasy, Horror fiction, Science fiction, Poetry
Influences
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Laird Samuel Barron (born 1970) is an author and poet, much of whose critically acclaimed 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 sled dog racer John Barron [1], he competed in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race 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." LOCUS October 2005, Issue 537 vol. 55 no. 4

Barron's fiction has appeared in Sci Fiction, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction and in numerous anthologies. His debut collection The Imago Sequence & Other Stories was published in 2007. His poetry has appeared in Eclectica, Pith, Stirring, and 3rd Muse; much of it is available online.

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[edit] Selected Stories

  • "Old Virginia", The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction February 2003
  • "Bulldozer", Sci Fiction August 2004
  • "Proboscis", The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction February 2005
  • "The Imago Sequence", The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction May 2005
  • "Hallucigenia," The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction June 2006
  • "The Forest," INFERNO Tor Books, 2007

[edit] Collections

  • The Imago Sequence & Other Stories, Night Shade Books 2007

[edit] Anthologies

  • Poe: 18 New Tales of Suspense, Dark Fantasy, and Horror Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe 2009
  • The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror 21 2008
  • Clockwork Phoenix 2008
  • Year's Best Fantasy 8 2008
  • The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction & Fantasy 2008
  • Inferno 2007
  • Year's Best Fantasy 7 2007
  • Trochu divnĂ© kusy 2 2006
  • Fantastyka Number 4 2006
  • The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror 19 2006
  • Horror: Best of 2005 2006
  • Fantasy: Best of 2005 2006
  • Year's Best Fantasy 6 2006
  • The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror 18 2005
  • The Three-Lobed Burning Eye Annual Volume No. 2 2005
  • The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror 17 2004

[edit] Other writing

  • "Twenty-First Century Ghosts." Essay for LOCUS Magazine, May 2007
  • "Quietly, Now." Essay for Erobos: The New Darkness #1, Summer 2007
  • "Dark Star: The Michael Shea Experience." An introduction to The Autopsy & Other Tales, Centipede Press, 2008

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NAME Barron, Laird
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION writer, dogsledder
DATE OF BIRTH 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Palmer, Alaska
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH