Gregory A. Wilson is currently an Associate Professor of English at St. John's University in New York City, where he teaches creative writing and fantasy fiction along with various other courses in literature. He has published eleven articles and book chapters on a variety of academic subjects; his first academic book, The Problem in the Middle: Liminal Space and the Court Masque (Clemson University Press), was published in 2007, and his first novel, a work of epic fantasy entitled The Third Sign, was published by Gale Cengage in 2009. He regularly reads from his work and serves as a panelist at conferences across the country, and is a member of Codex, the Writers' Symposium, Backspace, and several other author groups on and offline. He is represented by Roger Williams of the Publish or Perish Literary Agency and is currently submitting his second and third novels, Icarus and Grayshade respectively, to agents and publishers. He is in the planning stages for a proposed anthology of stories considering speculative fiction and politics, co-edited by Martin Greenberg and Hugo nominee John Helfers, with a number of well-known authors already on board. He is also the co-host (with fellow speculative fiction author Brad Beaulieu) of Speculate! The Podcast for Writers, Readers and Fans, a show which discusses (and interviews the creators of) speculative fiction of all sorts and types. See and hear the details at www.speculatesf.com.

He is also the lead singer and trumpet player for the progressive rock band The Road (www.thebandtheroad.com), which recently released its second album Monomyth, nominated for Best Foreign Record in Progawards 2010. He lives with his wife Clea, daughter Senavene — named at his wife's urging for a character in The Third Sign, for which he hopes his daughter will forgive him — and dog Lilo in Riverdale, NY. His virtual home is www.gregoryawilson.com.