Mark Finn is an
author, actor, essayist, and playwright. His biography, Blood and Thunder: The Life and Art of Robert E. Howard, was
nominated for a World Fantasy award in 2007. His articles, essays, and
introductions about Robert E. Howard and his works have appeared in
publications for the Robert E. Howard Foundation, Dark Horse Comics, Boom!
Comics, The Cimmerian, REH: Two-Gun Raconteur, The Howard Review, Wildside Press, and
he has presented several papers about Robert E. Howard to the PCA/ACA National
conference, the AWC, and lectures and performs readings regularly about Howard,
comics, and popular culture in general.
Finn is the author of
two books of fiction, Gods New and Used and Year of the Hare, as
well as hundreds of articles, essays, reviews, and short stories for The
University of Texas Press, RevolutionSF.com,
Greenwood Press, Dark Horse Comics,
Wildside Press, Monkeybrain Books, and others. Current
projects include Fruit Ninja and SCOUTS! for Ape Entertainment and a
story for Monsterverse’s Bela Lugosi’s
Tales From the Grave With longtime
friend and collaborator John Lucas. Forthcoming projects include an essay in The Apes of Wrath from Tachyon Press, a
story in Tails From the Pack from Sky
Warrior Books and a short story in Ray
Guns Over Texas for the 2013 WorldCon.
When he is not working in Howard Studies, he writes comics
and fiction, dabbles in magic, acts as a creative consultant for media
companies, and produces and performs community theater. He lives in North Texas
(over the movie theater he owns) with his long-suffering wife, too many books,
and an affable pit bull named Sonya.
