I'm a graphic artist and a SF/Fantasy/Horror/Children's author with a dash of surrealist illustrator thrown in the mix. What can I say? It all works together in a strange way. I live in Denver, Colorado - love all things pop culture - collect books, toys, and comics - once built an 8 foot replica of Gort - build Haunted Mansion type sets in my yard every Halloween - paint and write daily - read obsessively - and the interior of my mind looks like 1950s sci fi pulp art. ...after all....what is reason, but a cloud eaten by the moon.

Diversity is one of Alison McBain's passions. With dual Canadian-U.S. citizenship, a Japanese-American mother and a B.A. in African history and classical literature, she has an eclectic background and a wide range of experience. She grew up in California and moved to the East Coast in her mid-twenties. Recently, she moved back to Alberta, where she is raising her three daughters. She started her writing career at age four with a "self-published" horror story about the monster in the closet. The story was highly lauded by her closest family members. Since then, she's received a number of writing awards and accolades from people not even vaguely related to her, but she still has a soft spot for that first short story. Her interest in diversity also extends to fiction. With over seventy publications to her name, her stories and poems range in tone from serious to silly. They cover nearly every genre, including literary, romance, horror, science fiction, fantasy, history and adventure. When not writing fiction, she follows her own personal mantra of, "Do something creative every day." She serves as the Associate Editor for the literary magazine Scribes*MICRO*Fiction. She also blogs about local events, showcases her art and conducts author interviews on her website, http://www.alisonmcbain.com/. When life gets a little too hectic, she does origami meditation or draws all over the walls of her house with the enthusiastic help of her kids.