Craig Quackenbush, novelist, freelance writer, editor. Debut novel will be released upon an unwary public in autumn, 2011.

A night owl by nature (you can't write without the dark). An idealist, a cynic, and an optimistic pessimist. All traits reflected in his work.

Film studies (film theory, screenwriting), Academy of Art College, San Francisco.

Broadcast Journalism degree, SUNY Buffalo, NY.

Writer & director of short films, some acting, wrote several screenplays. The latest screenplay, "Small World," recounts the period of his younger years when he both lived and worked at a residential hotel in San Francisco’s seedy Tenderloin district.

Astoria, Queens is home. 

First place winner of the Abbey Hill Literary Second Quarter 2010 fiction contest wuith the short story “Tone."

Editor, "Falling From the Sky" short story anthology (Another Sky Press, 2007)

Craig's website
Novel excerpts, personal info, links, contact... and another picture!

This Side of the City
blog

TONE by Craig Quackenbush (Abbey Hill Literary Quick Lit challenge, First Place)
Abbey Hill Literary Quick Lit challenge, Second Quarter 2010: First Place Winner