Winner 1st Annual Ultimate Bizarro Showdown! Garrett Cook was born in Wenham, Massachusetts July 19th, 1982. There are other details, but they're depressing or banal, with the exception of his haunted birthplace, his struggle with bipolar and a brief, unfortunate cancer scare. Yawn. Garrett Cook's work is far more interesting. He examines crises of faith and conscience through a pulpy,surreal or magorealistic lens to create magical, paranoid worlds that he hopes will entertain, antagonize and endear you. His books Murderland part 1:h8, Murderland 2:Life During Wartime and Archelon Ranch and Jimmy Plush, Teddy Bear Detective are available on Amazon. He is one of the creators and editors of the magazine Imperial Youth Review. What people are saying about Murderland Part 1: H8 "Perhaps he’s right. Perhaps that meat cleaver is our best hope for salvation. Or maybe he belongs in an asylum. MURDERLAND is a brutally shocking book. Demented. Logical. Disturbing. It can be crudely powerful one moment, tenderly skillful the next, so the reader never knows what’s coming. There’s no way to prepare. No way to protect yourself. Garrett Cook’s work has an edge … and it’s at your throat."- Robert Dunbar, author of The Shore and Martyrs and Monsters "The offbeat brilliance of this book will freak your face off-" Gina Ranalli, author of Mother Puncher, Sky Tongues and House of Fallen Leaves "I have not read a debut novel this good in a long time (or as far as I could remember)"- Jordan Krall, author of Piecemeal June and Squidpulp Blues "An intense, satirical and above all entertaining read"- Andersen Prunty, author of Zerostrata and the Overwhelming Urge "A savage, very original satire that openly mocks the American demigod-like worship of worthless celebrity with a future where despicable murderers become our new focus of adoration. It's as farcical as Swift's "A Modest Proposal," yet no less poignant."- bravenewworks.com "Action! Explosions! Hot broads! Garrett Cook is two-fisted Bizarro pulp. I love his stories"- Jeff Burk, author of SHATNERQUAKE

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Brandon Tietz is the author of OUT OF TOUCH and the Christian-erotica novel GOOD SEX, GREAT PRAYERS, both of which are to be released through Perfect Edge Books. His short stories have been widely published, appearing in such print works as WARMED AND BOUND (Velvet Press), AMSTERDAMNED IF YOU DO (CCLAP), SPARK (vol. II), SOLARCIDAL TENDENCIES, and the Chuck Palahniuk anthology BURNT TONGUES (Medallion Press). Tietz also serves as a regular contributor for LitReactor.com. He lives and works in Kansas City, MO.

David Bobis is an award-winning writer whose stories have been published in The Melbourne Age, Ceriph, and Solarcide. He received a third place prize for a national Melbourne Age short story writing competition at the age of 18, was shortlisted for the Brisbane State Library Young Writer's Award in 2005, received the third place prize for the John Marsden Short Story Literary Award in 2009, was long-listed for the Sydney Hammond Memorial Competition in 2019. David Bobis has two fiction short stories available on Amazon: Child and Curtain Cape.