Mark Onspaugh

I grew up in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles, California. My father, writer and aeronautical engineer Carl Onspaugh, was a fan of science fiction, and his bookcase contained lots of science fiction anthologies... Thanks to them I visited many strange and wonderful places, courtesy of editors like Judith Merril and Groff Conklin. Besides my father, my early influences include Ray Bradbury, Robert Sheckley, Robert Bloch and Eric Frank Russell. Later, I would discover Stephen King, Robert McCammon and Lee Child. I am a proud member of the Horror Writers Association, and I live in Cambria, California with my wonderful and talented wife, writer Tobey Crockett PhD, and three tricksters in the form of cats (William Yamantaka Ginsberg, Orion Zephyr O'Brien and Callisto Tigerlily of Themyscira).