Gary A. Braunbeck was born in the Year of the Rat and has been apologizing for it ever since. When he's not out and about stopping strangers in the street and begging them to forgive him for his sins, he can usually be found holed up in his office writing stories and novels in any number of genres. His work has received a Bram Stoker Award from the Horror Writers Association and been nominated for the International Horror Guild Award. Gary is also a Creative Writing instructor with Seton Hill University, where he teaches in an innovative Master's degree program in Writing Popular Fiction. He doesn't get invited to many parties, which everyone agrees is for the best.
Gary loves movies, books, and music.
Some of his favorites films include Frankenheimer's Seconds, Friedkin's Sorcerer, Kurasowa's Ikiru, Lumet's The Offense, Robinson's Field of Dreams, John Woo's The Killer, William Peter Blatty's The Ninth Configuration, and Terry Gilliam's The Fisher King.
His favorite authors include Jonathan Carroll, Peter Straub, Carson McCullers, Rod Serling, Kate Wilhelm, Harlan Ellison, Russell Banks, William Peter Blatty, Robin McKinley, William Kotzwinkle, William Goldman, James Dickey, and Ed Gorman.
Music is integral to his writing process. While he's working, he likes to listen to artists such as Tangerine Dream, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Stewart Copeland, Patty Larkin, Deep Purple, The Spin Doctors, Jethro Tull, The Cult, Faith and the Muse, Bloodrock, John Nitzinger, Steve Morse, Roy Buchanan, Mussorgsky, Saint-Saens, Mahler (especially the 1st Symphony), Leo Kottke, Pete Townshend, and The Who.
