John Beechem is a writer from Louisville, Kentucky. He self-publishes on his website American Fantastic (americanfantastic.com), a community for writers and artists of all kinds. John has been published in the Cavalcade Literary Magazine, Tobacco Magazine and Sanitarium Magazine. He hosts the American Fantastic Radio Hour on ARTxFM (soundcloud.com/john-beechem), a community radio station, and has hosted Keep Louisville Literary, also on ARTxFM (artxfm.com). His writing encompasses many pulp genres, including horror, fantasy, and science fiction. John also writes some poetry and literary fiction. He hopes to entertain his audience, to help them escape the reality of their day to day world, but also to inject higher themes and complex characters into his stories to create quality middle-brow writing. John is influenced by writers like George R.R. Martin, Margaret Atwood, and Octavia Butler, but also by video games, comic books, and other elements of pop culture. If you would like to learn more about John or his website American Fantastic, you can follow American Fantastic on Facebook or e-mail John at americanfantastic@gmail.com. John lives with his wife, Kelly, and their dog, Bella. He looks forward to the grand adventure that life has to offer them.