Christopher L. DelGuercio is a writer, teacher, editor, and lecturer from Syracuse, New York. He does this with the endless encouragement and understanding of his wife, Kathleen, as well as his son, Gabriel, and Shih Tzu, Jasper. He writes when it's quiet, in a farseeing place where he can stretch out and let his mojo rise. Mr. DelGuercio is a lifelong Central New Yorker and graduate of The State University of New York at Oswego. A creator and purveyor of speculative fiction for nearly a quarter-century, he began his writing career seated alone at a tiny desk in Liverpool, New York. Now he writes, seated alone, at a tiny desk in Clay, New York. In between there were stops at tiny desks in Watertown, New York; Cicero, New York; Baldwinsville, New York; and Fulton, New York. A lot of places, a lot of desks... and a lot of writing. In the realm of storytelling, he is a lover of all that is weird and wonderful, sublimely surreal, a fan of the fanciful and the phantasmagoric. If the tale is preternatural or mysterious or astonishing in nature, if it's well-written and blows your hair back, chances are good he can get into it.Mr. DelGuercio has authored many long and short stories alike, including the CNY Book-of-the-Year nominated novella, Eden Succeeding. His particular brand of "fantastic fiction" has appeared in print and on the internet for over fifteen years in many magazines, e-zines, serializations, anthologies, and podcasts. He's published many yarns since 2007, even more than contained in this collection, and produced many more recently, culminating in the publication of An Unsettled Score, which brings together twenty of his best past and present tales into one magnum opus. In addition to his years of writing, DelGuercio has served as editor for multiple novels from up-and-coming local authors, served as a fiction writing instructor at the YMCA's Downtown Writers Center since 2009 (where he also co-founded the Young Authors Academy), and has given numerous presentations on the writing process at CNY-area high schools. He is currently the faculty advisor for the Liverpool Literary Society. He can be contacted through his website, www.cdelguercio.com.
