Laird Barron was born in Alaska, where he raised and trained huskies for many years. He moved to the Pacific Northwest in the mid ’90s and began to concentrate on writing poetry and fiction.
His award-nominated work has appeared in Sci Fiction and The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, and has been reprinted in The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror, Year’s Best Fantasy 6, and Best New Fantasy: 2005.
Mr. Barron currently resides in Olympia, Washington, and is hard at work on many projects.