Duncan Ralston was born in Toronto and spent his teens in small-town Canada. As a "grownup," Duncan lives with his partner and their dog in Toronto, where he works in television and writes dark fiction about the things that disturb him. In addition to his twisted short stories found in the collections Gristle & Bone and Video Nasties, he is the author of the novels Salvage, Wildfire, WOOM, and the mindbending thriller The Method from Kindle Press.