Christopher Barzak is the author of the Crawford Fantasy Award-winning novel One for Sorrow, which was made into the Sundance feature film Jamie Marks is Dead. His second novel, The Love We Share Without Knowing, was a finalist for the Nebula and James Tiptree Jr. awards. His third novel, Wonders of the Invisible World, received the Stonewall Honor from the American Library Association and most recently was selected for inclusion on the Human Rights Campaign's list of books for libraries in LGBTQ-welcoming schools. He is also the author of three short story collections: Birds and Birthdays (surrealist fantasy stories), Before and Afterlives, (supernatural fantasies, which won the Shirley Jackson Awards), and the new Monstrous Alterations. His most recent novel, The Gone Away Place, received the inaugural Whippoorwill Award and selected for the Choose to Read Ohio program by the State Library of Ohio, the Ohioana Library Association, and the Ohio Center for the Book.
