Stan Swanson is a Bram Stoker award finalist and author of eight books including Forever Zombie (a collection of short stories), Write of the Living Dead (a highly-praised writing guide written with Araminta Star Matthews and Rachel Lee) and Wind Up Hearts. He is also editor/publisher for Dark Moon Books and Dark Moon Digest. Upcoming titles include Horror High School: Return of the Loving Dead (the first book in a young adult horror series co-written with Araminta Star Matthews), Dead Sparrows (a collection of apocalyptic poetry) and The Methlands (a horror novel co-written with award-winning author Joe McKinney). .Stan currently resides in Daytona Beach, Florida with his wife, Joy. He has three children and five grandchildren.

Author of six books and several shorter works, he is also editor/publisher of Stony Meadow Publishing, Dark Moon Books and Dark Moon Digest, a quarterly horror anthology. He was a Bram Stoker Award Finalist in 2013 for his Slices of Flesh anthology.