Stephen J. Golds was born in North London but has lived most of his life in Japan. As editor of Punk Noir Magazine, he specializes in noir writing like his crime story collection Gone, though is heavily influenced by transgressive fiction and dirty realism. His three fiction books can be read as a trilogy or stand-alone noir novels that deal in themes of mental trauma, betrayal, and twisted love. Such includes Say Goodbye When I'm Gone, I'll Pray When I'm Dying, and Always the Dead. Golds also writes poetry with the collections Love Like Bleeding Out With an Empty Gun in Your Hand, Poems for Ghosts in Empty Tenement Windows I Thought I Saw Once, as well as Half-Empty Doorways and Other Injuries.
