Benjamin Kane Ethridge is an American author who writes in the Horror and Dark Fantasy genres. Ethridge was born in Riverside, California. He spent the first five years of his life living in Alaska and Texas, before returning to Southern California, where he continues to live today. He obtained a BA in English at University of California, Riverside and an MA in English Composition at California State University, San Bernardino. In 2003 after a stint of substitute teaching, Ethridge joined an environmental compliance firm where he has worked since as an inspector. In 2006 Ethridge began publishing short fantasy and horror fiction in his spare time. In October 2010 his novel, Black & Orange, was published by Bad Moon Books and later won a Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in First Novel. His second work Bottled Abyss was nominated as well for the Bram Stoker Award in the novel category, as well as in the Long Fiction category for his novella "The Slaughter Man" in the LIMBUS, INC shared world anthology. [More at Wikipedia]

January 16th, 1977 in Riverside (Age 47)