Poppy Z. Brite was born in 1967 and grew up in New Orleans, Louisiana, and North Carolina. She worked as a gourmet candy-maker, mouse caretaker, artist's model, and exotic dancer, before she began writing fiction full time. Her first stories appeared in the now-defunct THE HORROR SHOW magazine between 1985 and 1990. Her short fiction has since appeared in numerous anthologies, including BORDERLANDS 1 and 3, WOMEN OF DARKNESS 2, BOOK OF THE DEAD 2: STILL DEAD, THE EARTH STRIKES BACK, DARK DESTINY 2: PROPRIETORS OF FATE, and YEAR'S BEST FANTASY AND HORROR 5. Her first book, the Southern Gothic vampire novel, LOST SOULS (Delacorte/Dell Abyss), was published in 1990, and her second novel, DRAWING BLOOD (Delacorte/Dell Abyss), in 1993. Recently, she has edited an anthology of erotic vampire fiction, LOVE IN VEIN (HarperPrism; with a follow-up, LOVE IN VEIN 2, scheduled for January 1997 release), published her third novel, EXQUISITE CORPSE (Simon & Schuster), and completed her biography of Hole frontwoman Courtney Love-Cobain. Currently, she lives in New Orleans with her husband, six cats, an albino kingsnake, and a one-eyed dog that she recently found at the post office.

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