Christopher Ruz

Christopher Ruz fell in love with dark fiction when a worn copy of Pet Semetary caught his eye at a local flea market. He bought it with his pocket money and hid it under his bed so his parents wouldn’t see. He was just eight years old and had no idea what he was getting into. Poor kid.

He has written and published horror, epic fantasy, science fiction, and children's choose-your-own-adventure books. His debut trad-pub novel, a supernatural horror story set in the halls of the world’s weirdest hedge fund, arrives mid-2027 from Penguin Random House.

His best known self-published works are The Ragged Blade (Parvus Press, 2019) and his ongoing horror series Rust. Meanwhile, he publishes the Olesia Anderson series of pulpy spy novellas under the pseudonym D.D. Marks, and writes Adventure Coloring Books for Insight Editions. He has sold stories to Asimov's Magazine, Andromeda Spaceways and Apollo’s Daughters, has beaten the gruelling Immerse or Die challenge twice, and was a finalist in the 2017 Aurealis Awards.

When not writing fiction, Christopher Ruz has worked as a teacher, designer, magazine editor, ghostwriter for business leaders, and one-time stuntman (don't ask). He lives in Melbourne, Australia.