Spoonbenders (Gregory) - Author Bio

Author Bio
• Birth—1965
• Where—Chicago, Illinois, USA
• Education—B.A., Illinois State University
• Awards—Crawford Award; World Fantasy Award; Shirley Jackson Award
• Currently—Oakland, California


Daryl Gregory is an American science fiction, fantasy and comic book author and won the 2009 Crawford Award for his novel Pandemonium. His most recent novel, Spoonbenders, was released in 2017.

Personal life
Daryl Gregory was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, with his two sisters. He graduated from Illinois State University in 1987 with majors in English and theater. After graduation, he taught high school in Michigan for three years and attended the Michigan State University Clarion science fiction workshop.

When his wife, Kathleen Bieschke, attained a job at the University of Utah, the couple moved to Salt Lake City. Later they moved to State College, Pennsylvania, where Bieschke took a job with Penn State University. Gregory worked for Minitab, a company producing statistical analysis software. They have two adult children but are now divorced. In 2016 Gregory moved to Oakland, California, where he writes full time and lives Liza Groen Trombi, Locus Magazine Publisher and Editor in Chief.

Career
In 1990 Gregory sold his first story to the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. His first novel, Pandemonium, came out in 2008, winning him the Crawford Award for best first fantasy book. The novel was also nominated for the World Fantasy Award, the Mythopoeic Awards and the Shirley Jackson Award.

Gregory's second novel, The Devil's Alphabet, was published in 2009 and named one of the best books of 2009 by Publishers Weekly. It was additionally nominated for the Philip K. Dick Award. In 2011 he published Raising Stony Mayhall, as well as the short story collection, Unpossible and Other Stories. Publishers Weekly named the collections one of the five best science fiction books of the year.

In 2010 Gregory was hired by Boom! Studios to co-write Dracula: Company of Monsters with Kurt Busiek and later the Planet of the Apes tie-in comic. He also wrote the stand-alone graphic novel, The Secret Battles of Genghis Khan, published in 2013.

Neuro-SF novel Afterparty came out in 2014, and his novella, "We Are All Completely Fine," in 2014. The novella was a Nebula Award finalist, and won the 2015 World Fantasy Award for Best Novella, as well as the Shirley Jackson Award. (Adapted from Wikiipedia. Retrieved 7/13/2017.)