John T. Biggs

John Biggs has two dilemmas: he's seen the magic that surrounds everyone and he can't stop writing about it. No one knows if it has anything to do with the Native American culture that surrounds him, but we wonder. There was that business with the paint. He swears it was just a smudge on his cheek he got when doing a little touch-up around the house, but we're not so sure.

His knowledge of the criminal underworld benefitted from a part time job as a night security guard in Chicago and his later work as a prison dentist in Lexington, Oklahoma. His familiarity with the mystical realm is a mystery to most who know him as a pretty regular guy.

John moved to Chicago in 1968, in time for the Democratic National Convention riots, which he didn't attend but remembers in great detail. He's written many research articles – a very bad way to learn the craft, he says – and started writing fiction in 2001. Since then he's published dozens of short stories and won numerous awards, including the grand prize of the 80th Annual Writer's Digest Writing Competition for "Boy Witch."

John and his wife travel at every opportunity. He loves reading and writing to the point of fanaticism, and spends altogether too much time in cemeteries. He won't tell us who he talks to there, but it's clear he's got a direct line to someone – or something – that's giving him inspiration.

To contact John or for more information visit his personal website: www.JohnBiggsWriter.com/

Work published in Frontier Tales:
Sky Stone