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Andy Duncan (b. 1964) was born in Columbia, South Carolina, and currently lives in Northport, Alabama. After graduating from the University of South Carolina with a B.A. in journalism, he worked as a writer and editor for the Greensboro News & Record for seven years. He first attended the Clarion West writers’ workshop in 1994, and returned a decade later to teach. A winner of the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award and the World Fantasy Award for his short fiction, his stories of Southern fantasy and regional Gothic have appeared in such magazines and anthologies as Asimov’s, Realms of Fantasy, SciFiction, Weird Tales, Mojo: Conjure Stories, New Magics, Polyphony 1, Starlight 1 and Starlight 3, The Year’s Best Science Fiction, The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror, The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, Year’s Best Fantasy and The Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica. His World Fantasy Award-winning collection Beluthahatchie and Other Stories was published by Golden Gryphon in 2000, he co-edited the anthology Crossroads: Tales of the Southern Literary Fantastic with F. Brett Cox, and wrote the non-fiction study Alabama Curiosities.

A story that typifies Duncan's wit and referential skills is "Senator Bilbo", combining the notorious racist Senator Theodore Bilbo of consensus reality with Bilbo the hobbit as a single character