Ivan Ewert was born in Chicago, Illinois, and has never wandered far afield. He has deep roots in the American Midwest, finding a sense of both belonging and terror within the endless suburban labyrinths, deep north woods, tangled city streets and boundless prairie skies. The land and the cycles of the year both speak to him and inform his writing; which revolves around the strange, the beautiful, the delicious and the unseen. His work has previously appeared in the award-winning anthology Grants Pass, as well as in Close Encounters of the Urban Kind, Human Tales, Space Tramps: Full-Throttle Space Tales and Beasts Within 3: Oceans Unleashed, while his culinary writing has appeared in Alimentum: The Literature of Food. An early treatment of Famished, then named Vorare, as well as separate works titled Solstice and Idolwood, appeared in the online magazine, The Edge of Propinquity from 2006 to 2011. He was the sole author to span all six years of that publication. In previous lives, Ivan has worked as an audio engineer, a purchasing agent, a songwriter, a tarot reader, a quality specialist, a project manager and, for a remarkably short stint, an accountant. In his spare time, Ivan occupies himself with reading, gaming, and assisting with the jewelry design firm Triskele Moon Studios. He currently lives near the Illinois-Wisconsin border with his wife of seventeen years and a terrifying collection of condiments. Ivan can be reached at www.ivanewert.com and on Twitter as @IvanEwert.
