Laird Barron's work has appeared in places such as The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, SCIFICTION, Inferno: New Tales of Terror and the Supernatural, Three-Lobed Burning Eye, and The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy. It has also been reprinted in numerous year's best anthologies, including Hartwell & Cramer's Year's Best Fantasy 6 and 7, Rich Horton's Best New Fantasy: 2005, and Link, Grant, and Datlow's Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 17, 18 and 19. His Bram Stoker, International Horror Guild, World Fantasy, and Locus Award-nominated stories "Old Virginia," "Bulldozer," "The Imago Sequence,' 'Proboscis," and "Hallucigenia," can be found in his debut collection, The Imago Sequence & Other Stories (Night Shade Books, 2007), itself one of this year's Shirley Jackson and Crawford Award nominees. Mr. Barron is an expatriate Alaskan currently at large in Washington State.