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Christopher Conlon’s work has appeared widely in magazines and journals including Poets & Writers, America, Filmfax, Poet Lore, The Long Story, and Tennessee Williams Annual Review, as well as in such anthologies as Masques V and September 11, 2001: American Writers Respond.

“Everything about Conlon's work astonishes me.” –Earl Hamner , creator of The Waltons and Falcon Crest

Perhaps his best-known book is 2009’s He Is Legend: An Anthology Celebrating Richard Matheson (Gauntlet Press), a gathering of original stories by some of today’s hottest writers—Stephen King, Joe Hill, F. Paul Wilson, Whitley Strieber, and many more—working within fictional universes created by the legendary fantasist Richard Matheson. Locus called the volume “the kind of comprehensive package most writers would love to be honored by.”

“A major talent…a superb writer.” –William F. Nolan, author of Logan’s Run

Conlon’s novel Midnight on Mourn Street was released to great acclaim by Earthling Publications in 2008. Booklist called it a “masterfully moving tale” that “easily distinguishes itself as a top-drawer first novel,” while Dead Reckonings praised its “rare power,” saying that “this is not only a novel that is difficult to put down while you are reading it; it is a novel that is difficult to put out of your mind once you have finished it.”

“The finest writer you haven’t read, but damned well ought to be reading.”
–Gary A. Braunbeck, author of In Silent Graves

Winner of the 2004 Peace Corps Writers Prize for Best Poetry Book, Gilbert and Garbo in Love (The Word Works, 2003) was Conlon’s first full-length volume of verse, dubbed a “razzling dazzling tour de force” by The Montserrat Review. A second collection of poetry, The Weeping Time, followed in 2004, and a third, Mary Falls: Requiem for Mrs. Surratt, in 2007.

“A consummate literary artist.” –George Clayton Johnson, author of Twilight Zone Scripts and Stories

Conlon continues to be active in writing and editing. A former Peace Corps Volunteer, he holds an M.A. in American Literature from the University of Maryland and lives with his wife and cats in Silver Spring, Maryland.

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