John Langan is the author of two novels and five collections of stories. For his fiction, he has received the Bram Stoker and the This Is Horror awards. With Paul Tremblay, he co-edited Creatures: Thirty Years of Monsters (2011). He is one of the founders of the Shirley Jackson Awards, for which he was a juror during its first three years. His reviews and essays have appeared in venues including Locus magazine, the LA Review of Books, and the Internet Review of Science Fiction. He lives in New York's Mid-Hudson Valley with his wife, younger son, and certainly not too many books. He is on the lookout for bears, but they are crafty.