Christopher Barzak grew up in rural Ohio, went to university in a decaying post-industrial city in Ohio, and has lived in a Southern California beach town, the capital of Michigan, and in the suburbs of Tokyo, Japan, where he taught English in rural junior high and elementary schools. His stories have appeared in a many venues, including Nerve.com, The Years Best Fantasy and Horror, Strange Horizons, Salon Fantastique, Interfictions, Realms of Fantasy, and Lady Churchills Rosebud Wristlet. His first novel, One for Sorrow, was published by Bantam Books in Fall of 2007. Currently he lives in Youngstown, Ohio, where he teaches writing at Youngstown State University.
Awards: Jackson (2014), Crawford (2008) see all
Novels
One for Sorrow (2007)
The Love We Share Without Knowing (2008)
Wonders of the Invisible World (2015)
The Gone Away Place (2018)
The Love We Share Without Knowing (2008)
Wonders of the Invisible World (2015)
The Gone Away Place (2018)
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Novellas and Short Stories
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Books containing stories by Christopher Barzak

Year's Best YA Speculative Fiction 2014 (2016)
(Year's Best YA Speculative Fiction, book 2)
edited by
Alisa Krasnostein and Julia Rios
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Christopher Barzak recommends

Find Me Where It Ends (2026)
Cassandra Khaw
"A darkly luminous novella steeped in grief, inheritance, and the quiet seductions of oblivion. With lyric ferocity, Khaw conjures a world where love and annihilation blur, where the past clings like a wound, and where survival itself can feel like a betrayal. Unsettling, intimate, and entirely unforgettable."
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