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Geoffrey Girard is an award-winning
fiction author of fantasy, horror and historical tales whose works have appeared in several best-selling anthologies and magazines, including
Writers of the Future (a 2003 winner), Damned Nation,
Prime
Codex, Aoife's Kiss, The Willows, and Apex Horror & Science
Fiction Digest. His first book, Tales of the
Jersey Devil, thirteen original tales based on the legendary monster, was published in 2005.
Tales of the Atlantic Pirates
(2006) and Tales of the Eastern Indians (2007) followed. Apex Digest
serialized his suspense/horror novella, Cain XP11, in four issues in
2007.
Geoffrey graduated from Washington
College with a literature degree and worked as an advertising
copywriter and marketing manager, later shifting to computer programming and now
to teaching high school English and Creative Writing. He has presented seminars
and workshops on creative
writing at colleges, elementary schools, bookstores and writers' organizations and can also be spotted speaking at various fantasy/horror conventions.
For example:
At the '07 Context Convention (OH) with Matt Cook, Chun
Lee, Jim Hines, Geoffrey Girard
Born in Germany, shaped in New
Jersey and currently living in Ohio, Geoffrey is also a musician having released an album of piano songs he composed and recorded. He is currently at
work on two more Tales Of... books and a new horror novel.
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