Christopher Barzak

Background

About Christopher Barzak

I am the author of the novels, One for Sorrow, The Love We Share Without Knowing, Wonders of the Invisible World, and The Gone Away Place. I am also the author of the short story collections, Birds and Birthdays, Before and Afterlives, and most recently Monstrous Alterations. My books have received the Stonewall Honor Award from the American Library Association, the Shirley Jackson Award, the Crawford Award, the Whippoorwill Award, and have been placed on the Human Rights Campaign list of books for LGBTQ affirmative welcoming school libraries. My books and stories have also been finalists three times for the Nebula Award, from the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association. I grew up in rural Ohio, have lived in a southern California beach town, the capital of Michigan, and have taught English outside of Tokyo, Japan, where I lived for two years, before returning to Youngstown, Ohio to teach literature and writing at Youngstown State University.