John Peyton Cooke was born in Amarillo, Texas, in 1967, and grew
up in Laramie, Wyoming. His novels include The Lake, Torsos, The Chimney Sweeper, Haven, The Rape of Ganymede, and The Fall of Lucifer. His short fiction has been published in several magazines and
anthologies, including Christopher Street, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Dark Love, Stranger, and Best American Mystery Stories 2003, and is collected in After You've Gone and Other Outré Tales.
John currently lives in London with his husband.
