Israel Finn is a horror, dark fantasy, and speculative fiction writer, and a winner of the 80th Annual Writer's Digest Short Story Competition. He's had a life-long love affair with books, and was weaned on authors like Kurt Vonnegut, Ray Bradbury, Richard Matheson, Arthur C. Clarke and H.G. Wells. Books were always strewn everywhere about the big white house in the Midwest where he grew up.

He loves literary works (Dickens and Twain, for instance), but his main fascination lies in the fantastic and the macabre, probably because he was so heavily exposed to it early on.

Later he discovered Stephen King, Robert McCammon, Dean Koontz, Dan Simmons, Ramsey Campbell, and F. Paul Wilson, as well as several others, and the die was indelibly cast.

He's been a factory worker, a delivery driver, a singer/songwriter in several rock bands, and a sailor, among other things. But throughout he's always maintained his love of storytelling.

Israel lives in southern California.