Born, raised, resides: Shane is perhaps the only person proud to call himself a Rust Belter—but no one can argue it doesn't make for a good story.

Growing up amidst decay required him to invent tales of adventure and consequence until he was old enough to put imagining aside and live out his own. Unfortunately by then the damage was already done: He became a writer.

An innate love of the fantastical and a passion for the classics instills his writing with a kind of modernist mythmaking. Through the likes of J.R.R. Tolkien and Gene Wolfe, he became fascinated with stories told speculatively but reinforced with the verisimilitude and narrative purpose of the literary. After all, could Heart of Darkness really not be improved with a little eldritch horror to accompany the existential? Such a recreation is an ideal he daily pursues.

When not punching the keys of his typewriter, Shane can either be found playing a few rounds of Hunt: Showdown or strolling through aisle after aisle at the bookstore until recommitting himself to the insidiously growing backlog at home.