"Chris Burdett lives in Madison, Georgia, with his wife Anna and their six cats, Seuss, Lilly, Jupiter, Tesseract, Luna, and Josey. He has a B.A. inEnglish from Georgia State University and an M.A. in Professional Writing from Kennesaw State University; he’s now about half-way through his MFA  in
Creative Writing at Georgia College & State University, where, as a Teaching Fellow, he teaches two undergraduate English courses per semester. Before returning to academia full-time, he spent fourteen years in the computer education field, where he worked variously as a technical writer and editor, product development manager, systems analyst, software engineer, and web developer.

"This appearance in Pulp and Dagger marks Chris’s sixteenth published short story; he’s also published stories in magazines with such cool titles as The Ecphorizer, The Agincourt Irregular, and Blue Murder.

"Chris’s influences are as diverse as Lloyd Alexander, Clifford D. Simak, Daniel Pinkwater, John Steinbeck, Kurt Vonnegut, Vladimir Nabokov, Robert A. Heinlein, Bruce Coville, and many others, and, of course, the pulps--before returning to the state of near-poverty that full-time graduate studies and
part-time teaching entails, he was trying to assemble a collection of all 99 issues of STARTLING STORIES.

"Finally, Chris has, as should now be apparent, a great zeal for writing about himself in the third person."


 

You can learn more about Chris at his Web site www.chrisburdett.com.