Daryl Gregory's first novel is the fantasy / science fiction / horror mash-up Pandemonium (Del Rey, forthcoming August 2008). Gregory's short fiction has appeared in F&SF, Asimov's, and multiple year's best anthologies. His short story "Second Person, Present Tense," reprinted in the Year's Best SF 23^rd Annual Collection (ed. Dozois) and Best SF 11 (eds. Hartwell & Cramer), won the 2005 Asimov's Readers" Choice Award for novelette and was a finalist for the SLF Fountain Award and for the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award. "Damascus" was reprinted in the Year's Best SF 24^th Annual Collection (ed. Dozois,) and Best SF 12 (ed. Hartwell & Cramer). This year, "Dead Horse Point" was reprinted in The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Vol.2 (ed. Strahan) and "Unpossible" will reaappear in Year's Best Fantasy 8 (eds. Hartwell & Cramer) and Fantasy: Year's Best, 2008 Edition (ed. Horton). "The Illustrated Biography of Lord Grimm" will appear in Eclipse 2 (ed. Strahan) in November 2008. Gregory attended Clarion East in 1988, and recently attended Charles Coleman Finlay's Blue Heaven workshop to work on his second novel, a southern gothic SF murder mystery (but with heart!) that is forthcoming from Del Rey. He now lives in State College, PA with his wife, two children, and a statue of Captain America.