Craig Quackenbush is a New York-based novelist, writer, and editor. Ache, Craig’s debut novel, will be released upon an unsuspecting but joyous public in late winter 2008.
Craig recently edited the 318-page short story anthology Falling From the Sky (Another Sky Press). The book, which featured over 30 writers, was released in May of 2007.
As a freelance writer he has contributed a multitude of features, interviews, and theater reviews to a number of publications including Show Business Weekly, Talent in Motion, and Lucid, Connecticut; and was a contributing writer for Los Angeles-based Specialty Publications’ multi-titled national magazines.
Craig holds a degree in Broadcast Journalism and studied film at the Academy of Art College in San Francisco. He has written and directed a couple of short films, dabbled in acting, and has written several screenplays. His latest screenplay, Small World, recounts his time living and working at a residential hotel in San Francisco’s seedy Tenderloin district.
He lives in New York City… well, Queens, to be more precise – but that still counts. He is a night owl by nature, but due to the drudgery of day jobs, he cannot always stay up into the small hours pounding out the words as he’d like.
Craig is an idealist, and an optimistic pessimist, which
is reflected in his work. According to Craig he “revels in
the truth of emotion when I craft the prose of literary
fiction and mold it into stories that relate personal
thoughts and experiences on a gut level.” Believing that
“life is too short not to notice”, it is his aim as a
writer to document the world through his occasionally bent,
but always honest voice.
