Chris Barili's fiction has appeared in anthologies by Zombies Need Brains LLC and Skywarrior Books, as well as on Zetetic: A Record of Unusual Inquiry, Quantum Fairy Tales, Evil Girlfriend Media, and The Western Online (as T.C. Barlow). He is author of the Hell's Butcher dark fantasy series, and his paranormal romance novel Smothered (as B.T. Clearwater) comes out in September from Winlock Press. He holds an M.F.A. in Creative Writing, Popular Genre Fiction, from Western State Colorado University, and lives in Colorado Springs.