Official author bio:

Alex J. Kane lives in the small college town of Monmouth, Illinois, a black hole from which he may one day escape. In the meantime, he holds a day job as a bank teller while pursuing a B.A. in English and writing speculative fiction. His stories have appeared in various journals and anthologies. Visit him online at www.alexjkane.com.

Favorite authors:

Chuck Palahniuk, Tobias S. Buckell, Joe Hill, Philip K. Dick, Stephen King, Arthur C. Clarke, Ray Bradbury, Alan Dean Foster, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Nnedi Okorafor, John Steinbeck, Matthew Stover, Jay Lake, Hunter S. Thompson, Frank Herbert, H. G. Wells, Kevin J. Anderson, Drew Karpyshyn, Ernest Hemingway, Ursula K. Le Guin, Richard Matheson, Isaac Asimov, Edgar Allen Poe, William Gibson, and Paolo Bacigalupi.

Hobbies:

• Writing. I write stories, primarily science fiction and horror, which I then revise, submit, and occasionally manage to sell for publication. While my chosen career path is in fiction, I also dabble in nonfiction essays, blogging, and the rare snippet of poetry.
• Reading. A requisite for the territory, and the greatest treat you can offer the imagination.
• Art. I prefer a variety of drawing media, especially pencil, ink, pastel, charcoal, watercolor, and colored pencil.
• Music, which I listen to constantly; each of my stories has its own private soundtrack. I also play guitar. My band is on indefinite hiatus, but it provided me with one of the most incredible years of my life.
• Computers. I have designed websites for over a decade, primarily using various graphics editors and raw HTML code (although I’ve finally surrendered to the astonishing ease of WordPress), and enjoy blogging, digital art, and the potential of the Internet among other gateways to the future.
• Video games, which I don’t have time to play anymore; I used to play games like Halo, Splinter Cell, and Call of Duty before college and writing consumed my existence.
• Movies. I’m a film fanatic, and show no signs of recovery. Favorites include Minority Report, Control, The Empire Strikes Back, Fight Club, True Grit, The Shawshank Redemption, Moon, Inception, The Mist, and The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.
• Biking, walking, and lifting weights. Of all my hobbies, this one sadly gets neglected the most.

My nonfiction essay “Finding the Cure,” and any other autobiographical blog posts, can be found in the Autobiography category.

I can be reached via email by way of the Contact page. Feel free to follow me on Twitter or Facebook and check out my photography on Flickr. For a complete list of available books in which my fiction appears, visit my Amazon author page.