Forrest Aguirre
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Forrest Aguirre is an American fantasy
Fantasy
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and horror
Horror fiction
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author, and winner of the 2003 World Fantasy Award
World Fantasy Award
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for his editing work on Leviathan 3, for which he was also a Philip K. Dick Award nominee. He recently edited the anthology Text:UR - The New Book of Masks. His own fiction has been published in a number of genre periodicals and in the collection Fugue XXIX, and his first novel Swans Over the Moon is coming soon from Wheatland Press
Wheatland Press
Wheatland Press is an independent book publisher, specializing in science fiction, fantasy, and horror short story and poetry collections. It was founded in 2002 by Deborah Layne...
. He often writes about Africa, and is deeply interested in the continent.