Kevin McClintock (1970-) was born in Carterville, Missouri and has lived in the very-haunted Ozark Mountain region of Southwest Missouri for most of his life. He is an 18-year, award-winning veteran of journalism, presently working full-time as a special projects writer for The Joplin Globe as well as associate editor for the Joplin Metro Magazine. He is the proud writer of numerous horror and dark fiction stories, and has published 27 of them in various markets since mid-2009. His collection of five novellas, "No Vacancies," was published in 2011 by Dark Moon Books. He was named SNM's "Writer of the Year" for 2010. For more information, visit his page, "Author Kevin McClintock" on Facebook.