Chris Barili

Chris Barili has spent 42 years in the US Intelligence Community, including twenty years on active duty. He holds a Bachelor's degree in English from University of Nebraska at Omaha, and a Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Writing, Popular Genre Fiction, from Western State Colorado University. His fiction has appeared in the anthology "Temporally Out of Order" by Zombies Need Brains Press, in three anthologies by Sky Warrior Press, on Evil Girlfriend Media, and on Zetetic: A Record of Unusual Inquiry, and its sister publication, Ember: A Journal of Luminous Things. His short fiction has also appeared in Crimson Streets Magazine, as well as the Superstars Writing Seminars anthology "Undercurrents.” and two anthologies from WordCrafter Books. He sold his first novel, a paranormal romance, under a pseudonym in 2016, and his fantasy novel Shadow Blade came out in 2019. He currently lives in Colorado Springs.