BIO
KIERAN SHEA’s fiction has appeared in dozens of venues including Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Thuglit, Dogmatika, Word Riot, Plots with Guns, Beat to a Pulp, Crimefactory, and Needle: A Magazine of Noir ...as well as in some beefy-looking anthologies most of which will make you question the tether of his shiny, red balloon. To his self-deprecating astonishment he's also been nominated for the Story South’s Million Writers Award twice without sending the judges so much as a thank you note. He co-edited the satiric transgressive fiction collection D*CKED: DARK FICTION INSPIRED BY DICK CHENEY and his debut novel KOKO TAKES A HOLIDAY is out now from Titan Books. Kieran divides his time between 38°58′22.6″N- 76°30′4.17″W and 39.2775° N, 74.5750° W.
"....while the truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will
always retain their power. Words offer the means to meaning, and for
those who will listen, the enunciation of truth. And the truth is, there
is something terribly wrong with this country, isn't there? Cruelty and
injustice, intolerance and oppression. And where once you had the
freedom to object, to think and speak as you saw fit, you now have
censors and systems of surveillance coercing your conformity and
soliciting your submission. How did this happen? Who's to blame? Well
certainly there are those more responsible than others, and they will be
held accountable, but again truth be told, if you're looking for the
guilty, you need only look into a mirror...."