ADAM BOLIVAR is a formal poet of dark fantasy, a weird fiction writer and a playwright for marionettes with a particular interest in balladry, alliterative verse and "Jack" tales. He is the author of The Lay of Old Hex (Hippocampus Press, 2017), The Ettinfell of Beacon Hill (Jackanapes Press, 2021) and Ballads for the Witching Hour (Hippocampus Press 2022). A second volume of his occult detective Ettinfell saga is due out from Jackanapes Press in 2024 and third is forthcoming. A marionette-maker, he has written and performed in several original marionette plays performed by puppet troupes in Boston, Berkeley, Portland and Salem, Oregon. A native of gambrel-roofed Boston, Massachusetts, he now resides in the gloomy dreamlands of Portland, Oregon with his golden-haired wife and son.
