Ian Pierce is a writer, originally from California, who currently lives in Seattle. His fiction is difficult to categorize in terms of genre, blending elements of fantasy, horror, mythology, romance, and realism. His short story “Tales from the Sub-Ocean: Or, Video Game as Metaphor for Mental Illness” was the first runner-up for the 2025 Mike Resnick Memorial Award. In addition to writing, he draws competently, rolls polyhedrons of varying shapes and colors, and jumps into mosh pits at underground metal shows. You can usually find him in varying cafes around Seattle writing. He’s the guy with the laptop and the big beard who looks exactly like the sort of person who jumps into mosh pits at underground metal shows. Despite the way he is depicted in his portrait above, he is not, technically speaking, an axolotl.
