Lawrence Santoro Bio
A regular author/narrator on Great Britain’s StarShipSofa.com, Lawrence Santoro began writing darkly fantastic tales at age five.
As associate producer of the syndicated television series, Hyde & Seeke, he wrote, directed and supervised production during the comedy/mystery series’ first season.
In 2001 the Horror Writers Association nominated Larry’s novella God Screamed and Screamed, Then I Ate Him for a Bram Stoker Award. In 2002, his audio adaptation and production of Gene Wolfe's The Tree Is My Hat, gave him a second Stoker nod. His Stoker-recommended short story Catching received Honorable Mention in Ellen Datlow’s 17th Annual YEAR’S BEST FANTASY AND HORROR anthology in 2003. In 2004, his So Many Tiny Mouths was cited in the anthology’s 18th edition. In the 20th, his novella, At Angels Sixteen, from the anthology A DARK AND DEADLY VALLEY was similarly honored.
Larry’s first novel, Just North of Nowhere, was published in 2007.
In 2009, Larry was the recipient of two Sophie Awards from The Starship Sofa. They were for Best Narration and for Best Short Fiction with his Then, Just a Dream.
His short novel, Lord Dickens’s Declaration was released in both print and audio versions in England in 2010.
A collection of his short fiction, Drink for the Thirst to Come, will be released in October, 2010.
Larry lives in Chicago and is working on a new novel, Bright Dreams.