Lawrence Watt Evans, who works under the pen names Lawrence Watt-Evans and Nathan Archer, among others, was born in Massachusetts in 1954, and grew up as one of six kids in a big old Victorian house rumored to be haunted. Both parents were science fiction readers, so he grew up reading the stuff, and decided at the age of seven or eight that he wanted to write it. He taught himself to read from a comic book at the age of five and later decided he wanted to write those, too; the ”haunted” house may be why he eventually took up horror. And when he discovered fantasy he wanted to write that, too. Unlike most people who decide to be writers, he actually pulled it off, selling his first novel, The Lure of the Basilisk, at the age of twenty-four. He has been a full-time writer ever since.

He’s now the author of more than forty novels, over one hundred short stories, over one hundred and fifty published articles, a couple of volumes of non-fiction, and a few comic books, as well as the editor of one published anthology. Most of his writing has been in the fields of science fiction, fantasy, horror, and comic books. He has been a full-time writer and editor for more than thirty years, and is always interested in new projects. He was an Active member of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America from 1982 to 2006, and has served as Eastern Regional Director and treasurer. He was nominated for the 1987 Nebula Award for short story. He received the World Science Fiction Society’s Hugo award for best short story in 1988, for “Why I Left Harry’s All-Night Hamburgers.”

He is also sole proprietor of a small publishing company, Misenchanted Press.