Eric J. Guignard is an American writer and editor of dark and speculative fiction, based near Los Angeles, where he also runs the small press Dark Moon Books. He has won the Bram Stoker Award twice and the Shirley Jackson Award, and has been a finalist for the World Fantasy Award and the International Thriller Writers Award. He has edited a number of horror anthologies and publishes Exploring Dark Short Fiction, a series of primers on contemporary writers of the macabre.