Stant Litore

Stant Litore (pen name of Daniel Fusch) is an American weird fiction, alternate history, and science fiction novelist living in Aurora, Colorado, with a Ph.D. in English from the University of Denver and a working career as a developmental editor for Westmarch Publishing. His fiction has been called by reviewers SF's premier poet of loneliness, his work has been acclaimed by NPR, and his novels have served as the subject of scholarly work in Relegere and Weird Fiction Review.

His Zombie Bible series retells the Bible and surrounding ancient history as a sequence of encounters with the restless dead, treating the figure of the zombie as a parable about hunger, poverty, dispossession, and what preserves and what devours us. The first volume Death Has Come Up Into Our Windows was the number two horror bestseller on Amazon Kindle in December 2011, has been translated into Spanish and German, and was followed by What Our Eyes Have Witnessed (early Roman empire and the first Christian communities), Strangers in the Land (the Hebrew Judges period), No Lasting Burial (Galilee in the time of Jesus), and additional linked novellas. His second novel placed second in the 2012 eFestival of Words Best of the Independent eBook Awards, Horror.

His Ansible series, opening with Ansible 15715 and continuing through Ansible: Season One, A Thousand Faces, and onward, posits a twenty-fifth-century Islamic Golden Age in which the Starmind research institute projects the consciousness of trained volunteers (the Ansibles) across interstellar distance into the bodies of other sentient beings to make first contact. His Running of the Tyrannosaurs series (including Nyota's Tyrannosaur) and the related Dakotaraptor Riders feature human characters riding theropod dinosaurs in an alternate-world setting. His standalone fantasy novel Dante's Heart draws on his fascination with ancient languages and religious studies.

His writing-craft titles include Write Characters Your Readers Won't Forget and Write Worlds Your Readers Won't Forget in the Toolkits for Emerging Writers series, plus the inspirational nonfiction Lives of Unstoppable Hope and Lives of Unforgetting. He has been featured in Jeff VanderMeer's Wonderbook: An Illustrated Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction. He has appeared as a guest at Denver Comic Con and at multiple Colorado conventions and on podcasts including ReelNerds and The Geek Port. He lives with his three children.