Victor Gischler is an American author of humorous crime fiction. Gischler's debut novel Gun Monkeys was nominated for the Edgar Award, and his novel Shotgun Opera was an Anthony Award finalist. His work has been translated into Italian, French, Spanish and Japanese. He earned a Ph.D. in English at the University of Southern Mississippi. His fifth novel Go-Go Girls of the Apocalypse was published in 2008 by the Touchstone/Fireside imprint of Simon & Schuster. He has also writes American comic books like The Punisher: Frank Castle, Wolverine and Deadpool for Marvel Comics. Gischler worked on X-Men "Curse of the Mutants" starting in the Death of Dracula one-shot and continued in X-Men #1. Gun Monkeys has been optioned for a film adaptation, with Lee Goldberg writing the script and Ryuhei Kitamura penciled in to direct.

I write crime novels. PSYCHOSOMATIC, THE DRUMMER, plus the Billy Lafitte series—YELLOW MEDICINE, HOGDOGGIN', THE BADDEST ASS, and HOLY DEATH—and the Mustafa & Adem series—ALL THE YOUNG WARRIORS and ONCE A WARRIOR, in addition to WORM, CHOKE ON YOUR LIES, and SLOW BEAR. Next up: THE BUTCHER'S PRAYER (Sept 21) and TROOPER DOWN! (later in 22). CASTLE DANGER: WOMAN ON ICE and THE MENTAL STATES, and THE CYLCIST are available as ebooks out from BE Ebooks. My entry in Lee Goldberg and William Rabkin's DEAD MAN series, COLDER THAN HELL, was published by 47North in January, '13. I'm an English Professor at Southwest Minnesota State University. I'm one of the founders of the crime webzine PLOTS WITH GUNS. I like tacos. I like biking. I had a heart attack at 40. I'm good now.