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Brian Hodge (b. 1960) was born and raised in the Midwest, although for the past several years he has lived in Boulder, Colorado, and works beside a window that looks out on the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains – at least when the leaves are off the trees. He sold his first two novels about three months apart when he was twenty-six years old and has written full-time ever since. Most of his fiction has fallen under the horror and crime-suspense umbrellas, including the novels Oasis, Dark Advent, Nightlife, Deathgrip, The Darker Saints, Prototype, Wild Horses, Hellboy: On Earth As It is in Hell and Mad Dogs. The author of around ninety short stories and novellas, his work has been collected in The Convulsion Factory, Falling Idols, Lies & Ugliness and The Sacred and Profane. Despite being nominated for more than a dozen awards – Bram Stoker Award, World Fantasy Award, International Horror Guild Award and Britain’s CWA Dagger Award for crime fiction – for various novels, stories and collections, it all amounted to a long Susan Lucci-like losing streak until 2004, when he won the IHG Award for the short story “With Acknowledgments to Sun Tzu”, which originally appeared in the The Third Alternative. Hodge also dabbles in photography and music – the latter mostly dark, electronic stuff, that could be a soundtrack to much of what he writes.