Marc Ruvolo is a queer writer and musician living in Portland, Oregon who once considered himself a punk. He founded the seminal Bucket O’ Blood book store in Chicago, and his poetry and fiction have appeared in Cynthia Pelayo’s Gothic Blue Book Series, The Night’s End Horror Podcast, and The Best of Abyss & Apex Vol. 4. His debut horror poetry chapbook “Creep & Crow” was released in 2022 by Alien Buddha Press, and a horror novella, SLOE, was released by Unnerving Books in 2023. His second horror novella, PIETIES, is coming from Off Limits Press in April 2024.