Michael Arnzen was born in Amityville, NY -- hometown of the infamous horror house.
After a brief stint in the Army overseas, where he began writing horror stories to entertain his fellow soldiers, he moved to Colorado, where he launched his career in publishing in the underground press to much success. By the mid-nineties the Genre Writer's Association awarded him "Best Fiction Writer" and in 1995, he had received the coveted Bram Stoker Award -- the highest accolade in the horror genre -- for his first novel, Grave Markings. Shortly thereafter, he went on to earn a Masters degree while working on his second novel and continuing to write, soon followed by his Ph.D. at the University of Oregon, where he studied horror in pop culture and wrote a dissertation called The Popular Uncanny.
Arnzen now lives near Pittsburgh with his wife and cats. He is an assistant professor English at Seton Hill University, where he teaches in an innovative Master's degree program in Writing Popular Fiction. His fifth poetry book, Freakcidents, is set to be released this Winter. Visit his content-rich website, gorelets.com, for all the latest news about his writing.
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