Jeff Strand

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Jeff Strand
Born (1970-12-14) December 14, 1970 (age 53)
Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
OccupationWriter
Genre Horror comedy, horror, black comedy, young adult fiction, thriller
Notable awards Bram Stoker Award for Best Long Fiction (2021)

Jeff Strand (born December 14, 1970) is an American writer, known for his works of comedy horror.

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He has written novels, short stories, screenplays and comedy sketches. [1] In addition to his adult-oriented horror works, Strand also writes young adult fiction. [2] He has been nominated for the Bram Stoker Award five times, winning the award for the first time in the Best Long Fiction category for his novella Twentieth Anniversary Screening (2021). [3] [4]

Biography

Strand was born in Baltimore, Maryland but moved to Fairbanks, Alaska at a young age. [5] Prior to his freshman year of high school, he moved to Kent, Ohio, and attended Theodore Roosevelt High School, graduating in 1998. He then went on to Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio, where he majored in creative writing. After graduating college, he briefly returned to Alaska before moving back to Ohio and eventually moving to Tucson, Arizona. [6] He had his first short story sale in 1996, selling a story titled "The Private Diary of Leonard Parr" to Twisted Magazine, where it was featured in its first and only issue. [7]

After a string of books in other styles, in 2000, Strand published Graverobbers Wanted (No Experience Necessary), the first novel in the horror-comedy style for which he would later become known, through the publisher Hard Shell Word Factory. [8] [9] He received his first nomination for the Bram Stoker Award in 2006 in the Best Novel category for his novel Pressure. [10] In 2018, his novelette "The Tipping Point" from his short story collection Everything Has Teeth won a Splatterpunk Award in the Best Short Story category. [11] In 2022, "Next Best Baker," included in Baker's Dozen from Uncomfortably Dark, won a Splatterpunk Award in the Best Short Story Category. [12]

Style

Jeff Strand is primarily known for his works of horror-comedy, which have earned him the nickname "The Clown Prince of Horror". However, he also writes thrillers and young adult fiction. [13] His writing is often defined by its dark humor and sparse prose style. [14] [15] Strand has named such authors as Douglas Adams, Richard Laymon, Dave Barry and Jack Ketchum as influences on his writing. [16] [17]

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  1. ↑ "The Bram Stoker Awards".
  2. ↑ "Jeff Strand | Teenreads". www.teenreads.com. Archived from the original on 2019-05-05. Retrieved 2019-05-05.
  3. ↑ "Imaginarium 2022 Proudly Welcomes Five-time Bram Stoker Award Nominee Jeff Strand as a Spotlighted Guest!". Imaginarium Convention. 2022-03-28. Retrieved 2022-05-19.
  4. ↑ "sfadb: Bram Stoker Awards 2022". www.sfadb.com. Retrieved 2022-05-19.
  5. ↑ "Jeff Strand". www.fantasticfiction.com. Retrieved 2019-05-05.
  6. ↑ "BIO". Gleefully Macabre. 2018-01-16. Retrieved 2019-05-05.
  7. ↑ Press, Dark Regions. "Jeff Strand Interview by Brian M. Sammons". Dark Regions Press. Retrieved 2019-06-02.
  8. ↑ "Interview: Jeff Strand". Nightmare Magazine. 2014-03-26. Retrieved 2019-05-05.
  9. ↑ "Graverobbers Wanted (No Experience Necessary) (Andrew Mayhem #1)". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved 2019-05-05.
  10. ↑ admin (2000-06-15). "Past Award Nominees and Winners". Horror Writers Association Blog. Retrieved 2019-05-07.
  11. ↑ locusmag (2018-08-28). "2018 Splatterpunk Awards Winners". Locus Online. Retrieved 2019-05-07.
  12. ↑ https://locusmag.com/2022/08/2022-splatterpunk-awards-winners//ref>
  13. ↑ "Interview: Jeff Strand". Nightmare Magazine. 2014-03-26. Retrieved 2019-06-02.
  14. ↑ "Dark Scribe Magazine - Reviews - Disposal / Jeff Strand". www.darkscribemagazine.com. Retrieved 2019-06-02.
  15. ↑ Mog (2011-04-04). "Grade Z Horror: Laymon Month: Guest Post by Jeff Strand". Grade Z Horror. Retrieved 2019-06-02.
  16. ↑ "Jeff Strand Author Interview" . Retrieved 2019-06-02.
  17. ↑ "Interview with Jeff Strand on his ferociously funny tales, writing and inspirations. | More2Read". more2read.com. Retrieved 2019-06-02.
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