Biography

David Jack Bell was born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio. His short fiction, interviews, and book reviews have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies including Backwards City Review; Western Humanities Review; Shadow Regions; Wicked Karnival Halloween Horror; The Edge, Tales of Suspense; Rain Crow; and Black Petals.

As preparation for his life as a writer, David worked as a delivery driver, janitor, A.V. grunt in a library, bartender, bookstore clerk, and telemarketer. He received his B.A. in English from Indiana University, his M.A. from Miami University in Ohio, and his Ph.D from the University of Cincinnati.

David lives with his wife, the writer Molly McCaffrey, in Bowling Green, Kentucky where he is an Assistant Professor of English at Western Kentucky University.

Favorite Writers:

George R.R. Martin, John D. MacDonald, Ed Gorman, Stephen King, Flannery O’Connor, Elmore Leonard, Herman Melville, Jhumpa Lahiri, Robert B. Parker, Leo Tolstoy, Karl Edward Wagner, Jack Ketchum, Greg F Gifune, Michael McDowell, Tom Monteleone, Fritz Leiber, China Mieville, M. John Harrison, Brian Keene, Dean Koontz, Robert E Howard, Michael Moorcock, Jack Finney, Ursula LeGuin, David Morrell, Scott Nicholson, F Paul Wilson, T.M. Wright, Tom Piccirilli

Favorite Movies:

Once Upon a Time in the West, Ride the High Country, The Searchers, Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead (the original), Out of the Past, The Deer Hunter, Heaven's Gate, Psycho, Invasion of the Body Snatchers (the original as well as the first remake), The Wild Bunch, Defending Your Life

Favorite TV:

Pardon the Interruption, Once and Again, All in the Family, MASH, Battlestar Galactica, Gilmore Girls, Lost, 30 Rock, The Office, The Daily Show

Favorite Music:

Echo and the Bunnymen, Bob Dylan, The Go-Betweens, The Who, REM, Blake Babies
Favorite Sports Teams:
The Cincinnati Reds, Cincinnati Bengals, Indiana Hoosiers, Texas Tech Red Raiders