Author Bio:

Joshua Harding is a novelist, short story author, and award-winning poet and horror writer. His fiction is currently featured on Writer’s Digest, QuarterReads, and Acidic Fiction. He studied Creative Writing at Beloit College under award-winning author Clint McCown (The Member-Guest and War Memorials). He’s a member of the Antioch Writers’ Group, as well as the Online Writing Workshop and the Lakes Literary League. He’s worked as a nuclear missile mechanic, an environmental lobbyist, a cemetery restorer, freelance artist, puppet master, set designer, actor, carpenter, mortuary officer, garbage man, you name it. The only thing he’s done longer than any of them is write. He lives in a four-person artists’ colony in the woods north of Chicago.

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Joshua Harding is a novelist and award-winning short story writer and poet. His work is currently featured on Acidic Fiction, The Loose Leaf Press, and QuarterReads. He’s been a nuclear missile mechanic and a suspected member of Sinn Féin. Before that he was an environmental lobbyist, a cemetery restorer, freelance artist, puppet master, set designer, actor, carpenter, mortuary officer, scrimshander, garbage man, you name it. The only thing he’s done longer than any of them is write. He lives in a four-person artists’ colony in the woods north of Chicago. Below is an excerpt from his short story Invoking Ganesh, which won first place in the Writer’s Digest Popular Fiction Awards for the Horror category. You can check out Joshua’s website: http://jharding71.wix.com/joshuajharding or follow him on Twitter: @jharding71. His short story I Dated Mother Nature is available in the anthology Acidic Fiction #2: Toxic Tales on Amazon. His debut science fiction novel, Red Lakes is also available on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/author/joshuaharding