David Hearn has been writing sporadically over a span of several decades.In 1987, at the age of seventeen, he placed second in the Wordsmith fiction competition at (then) Memphis State University with a science fiction short story called "Galaxy Press". The following year he managed to win first place in the Wordsmith fiction division with a rather controversial story (mixing the always fun and wholesome subjects of porn, lycanthropy and snuff films) titled "Obsession."In 1991, Hearn moved to Athens, Georgia, where he worked several years for a county newspaper as a staff writer and photographer. He later attended both Truett-McConnel College and the University of Georgia, where he studied English and Literature, and Business.Hearn tried his hand at screenplay writing in the late 1990's. He acquired an agent based in Los Angeles, who shopped around several scripts--but alas, no sale. Unwilling to relocate to LA to pursue the craft, he eventually bowed out of writing altogether for a time, working in other various lines of employment. It was until 2010 that Hearn again seriously returned to writing, this time concentrating on short fiction, which has appeared in various horror anthologies. In March, 2013, Hearn published Guns: The Real Shake, a non-fiction retort to Stephen King's essay "Guns", as well as an examination of the current US gun control debate. He's presently at work on the "Darker Series" a large collection of horror short stories and novellas, of which the first volume will be available May, 2013 on Amazon.Hearn currently lives and works in Pensacola, Florida.