Eric Esser lives in San Francisco with his wife Courtney. When he was small he used to wander the perimeter of his elementary school soccer field every recess imagining stories set in other worlds, and for some reason no one ever made fun of him for it. He suspects they discussed him secretly. He’s dabbled in Elizabethan Gothic, dystopian, urban fantasy, and horror. He is a graduate of the Clarion Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers’ Workshop, a member of the Codex Writers’ Group, an affiliate member of the Horror Writers Association, and a full member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association. His fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Schoolbooks & Sorcery, Pseudopod, and Fictionvale, among others.