D.W. Behrend grew up in the Finger Lakes region of New York state and has lived and worked in such exotic locales as Alaska, Boston, New York City and Newark, N.J. He’s been a grocery store clerk, a reporter, a landscaper, a pot scrubber, a freezer crew foreman in a salmon plant, a textbook publishing lackey, a bureaucrat and a paper boy (not necessarily in that order). He has a masters degree in journalism from Columbia University and studied fiction writing at Rutgers University-Newark. He currently writes strange tales and such from his suburban New Jersey lair, which he shares with his wife, daughter and two surprisingly well-behaved cats. His stories have appeared in Havok and Crimson Streets.