R I C H A R D  B U T N E R

"Appropriately dry."

—Publishers Weekly, 29 Oct 2007

Writer. Run Sycamore Hill Writers' Conference with John Kessel. M.S. in Computer Engineering, English minor, B.S. in Electrical Engineering, both from North Carolina State University. Author of Windows Performance Secrets with Mark Van Name and Bill Catchings, published in September 1998 by Que Press, a division of Macmillan USA. Write articles and reviews of hardware, software and Web sites for technology magazines such as IBM Think Research, Wired, PC Magazine, Yahoo! Internet Life and Windows Sources. Consult and write for various computer companies, including VeriTest (once known as the Ziff-Davis Benchmark Operation), IBM, SAS Institute, Digital City and the now defunct Deja (once known as DejaNews). Also a contributor to The News & Observer, Teacher, The Independent Weekly, The North Carolina Review Of Books, Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, Short Form, Pussycat, Triangle Alternative, and Southern Lifestyle magazines. See clips for more info. Resume available by request.

Fiction Publications

Collections

• Horses Blow Up Dog City & Other Stories. Northampton: Small Beer Press, June 2004.

Short Stories

• "Through the Uprights." Electric Velocipede, December 2011.
• "Holderhaven." Crimewave 11: Ghosts, November 2010.
• "The Crypt." Last Drink Bird Head ed. Ann and Jeff Vandermeer. Stirling: Ministry of Whimsy, November 2009.
• "The Wounded." Crossroads: Southern Stories of the Fantastic ed. F. Brett Cox and Andy Duncan. New York: Tor, August 2004.
• "Pete and Earl." Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, June 2004.
• "House of the Future." SciFiction, 14 Jan 2004.
• "Some Lessons." Mind Caviar, 2003.
• "Ash City Stomp." Trampoline ed. Kelly Link. Northampton: Small Beer Press, July 2003. Reprints: Year's Best Fantasy & Horror ed. Ellen Datlow and Kelly Link & Gavin J. Grant, St. Martin's, 2004; Horses Blow Up Dog City & Other Stories, Small Beer Press, June 2004; Sympathy for the Devil. Night Shade Books, August 2010.
• "Drifting." Say..., Spring 2003. Reprint: Horses Blow Up Dog City & Other Stories, Small Beer Press, June 2004.
• "Banal Probe." Problem Child, Spring 2003.
• "The Secret Identity." Say..., Fall 2002. Reprint: Strange Horizons, August 2008.
• "Six Lines." ...is this a cat?, 2002.
• "Other Agents." Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, Winter 1999.
• "Horses Blow Up Dog City." Intersections: The Sycamore Hill Anthology ed. John Kessel, Mark L. Van Name, and Richard Butner. New York: Tor, January 1996. Reprint: Horses Blow Up Dog City & Other Stories, Small Beer Press, June 2004.
• "Empty Flames." When The Music's Over ed. Lewis Shiner. New York: Bantam Spectra, May 1991.
• "Luther Omnipotens." RE Arts & Letters, Spring 1989.
• "Saving The World." Scream, 1989.

Poetry

• "Manifesto of the Rolling Men." Farce, October 1988.
• "White House." Farce, July 1988.
• Mind Snakes. Richard Butner & Michael Carter. Raleigh: Barefoot Press & The Paper Plant, 1988.