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Brian Wood-Koiwa

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Born

in Towanda, PA, The United States

Website

https://www.urbanweird.com

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Fantasy, Gay and Lesbian

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Chinea Miéville, Frank Herbert, William Shakespeare, Modernist and Pos ...more

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January 2011

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Brian Wood-Koiwa is an adult dark fantasy writer, specifically in his UrbanWeird style combining weird fantasy, grimdark, and a smattering of camp set in gritty decadent cities, metropolises, and megalopolises, real and imagined.
He grew up in rural Pennsylvania but became an instant urbanophile upon his first exposure to the wonders and weirdness of The City. He likes to believe cities are living entities independent of their human creators, which is a common motif in his writing.
He now lives in central Tokyo with his husband and a couple of furry four-legged kids.

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Literary, Genre, Both?

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about what makes a piece of fiction literary and what make it not so. The common term for fiction that is not literary is “genre”, e. g., science fiction, fantasy, horror. It is like there is this hierarchy of literature with literary works at the top and genre below. It is a lot like visual arts. Back in the day, historical and religious paintings were considered t Read more of this blog post »

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