Michael Arnzen

Michael A. Arnzen is a horror author and writer of the Bram Stoker Award-winning novel, Grave Markings (Dell Books). He won his second Bram Stoker Award for his newsletter (The Goreletter) and his third for his poetry collection, Freakcidents.

Michael A. Arnzen
BornMichael A. Arnzen
1967
Amityville, New York, United States
OccupationNovelist, Professor, Poet
NationalityAmerican
Alma materColorado State University-Pueblo B.A. English

University of Idaho M.A. English

University of Oregon Ph D. English
Period1989 — present
GenreFiction, Horror Fiction, Critical Theory, Poetry
Notable worksGrave Markings
Notable awardsBram Stoker Award
1994 Grave Markings – Best First Novel
International Horror Guild Award for First Novel
1994 Grave Markings
Bram Stoker Award
2003 The Goreletter – Best Alternate Form
Bram Stoker Award
2005 Freakcidents – Best Poetry Collection
Bram Stoker Award
2007 Proverbs For Monsters – Best Fiction Collection
Website
www.gorelets.com

Arnzen was born in Amityville, New York. After a brief stint in the US Army overseas, where he began writing horror stories to entertain his fellow soldiers, he moved to Colorado, where he launched his career in publishing to much success. By the mid-nineties he received the coveted Bram Stoker Award—the highest accolade in the horror genre. Shortly thereafter, he went on to earn a master's degree while working on his second novel, soon followed by his Ph.D. in English at the University of Oregon, where he studied the role of horror and nostalgia in 20th century culture in a dissertation called The Popular Uncanny.

100 Jolts (Raw Dog Screaming Press) features 100 of his very best flash fiction stories. His short story collection, Fluid Mosaic (Wildside Press) collects his best stories from the 1990s. His poetry chapbooks include Freakcidents, Gorelets: Unpleasant Poetry, Dying (With No Apologies to Martha Stewart), Paratabloids, Chew, Sportuary, and Writhing in Darkness. His most recent published work is Play Dead, a crime thriller with a poker theme.

Arnzen holds a Ph.D. in English and presently teaches graduate studies in "Seton Hill University's Writing Popular Fiction Program" and undergraduate English courses at Seton Hill University in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, where he lives with his wife and cats.

In addition to his extensive publications and award-winning blog, Arnzen also runs Mastication Publications, an umbrella imprint for creative ephemera, chapbooks, collector’s items and independently published ebooks.[1]

He also keeps a weblog devoted to teaching.

Bibliography

Novels and novellas
  • Grave Markings (Dell Books 2004, ) Winner, Bram Stoker Award Superior Achievement in a First Novel [2]
  • Play Dead (Raw Dog Screaming Press, 2005)
  • Bitchfight (Bad Moon Books, 2008)
  • Grave Markings: The 20th Anniversary Edition (Raw Dog Screaming Press, 2014)

Short story and flash fiction collections
  • Needles and Sins (Dark Regions Press, 1993)
  • Fluid Mosaic and Other Outre Objects D'Art (Wildside Press, 2001)
  • 100 Jolts (Raw Dog Screaming Press, 2004)
  • Proverbs For Monsters (Dark Regions Press, 2007) Winner, Bram Stoker Award Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection [3]

Poetry collections
  • Freakcidents
  • Gorelets: Unpleasant Poetry
  • Dying (With No Apologies to Martha Stewart)
  • Paratabloids
  • Chew
  • Sportuary
  • Writhing in Darkness

Non-fiction
  • Many Genres, One Craft (Co-Edited by Michael A. Arnzen and Heidi Ruby Miller) (Headline Books, 2011)
  • Instigation: Creative Prompts on the Dark Side (Mastication Publications, 2013)
gollark: The thing could plausibly be doing… antialiasing or whatever it's called, where if something is only partly within whatever you're drawing it's only partly shaded.
gollark: I don't know digital signal processing, so my code just does it in the very naive way I thought of after failing to get a FFT to work.
gollark: That was not it. Or at least not only it.
gollark: Oh wait. It *should* be sin and not cos. Maybe that's it?
gollark: It's labelled on the top as being about 4 seconds long.

See also
  • List of horror fiction authors

References
  1. http://masticationpublications.com/about-us/
  2. http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/award_category.cgi?497+0
  3. http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/award_category.cgi?496+0
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