Gregory Bernard Banks began his pursuit of a writing career in 1997, after spending years studying his other creative love, graphic design. In the past, he's served as moderator for the Zoetrope All-Story Writers Workshop, as a site administrator for Scrawl: The Writer's Asylum, and as webmaster for the WRITER and MARKET Literary Search Engine. He's currently co-Webmaster for the Speculative Liter...

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Gregory Bernard Banks began his pursuit of a writing career in 1997, after spending years studying his other creative love, graphic design. In the past, he's served as moderator for the Zoetrope All-Story Writers Workshop, as a site administrator for Scrawl: The Writer's Asylum, and as webmaster for the WRITER and MARKET Literary Search Engine. He's currently co-Webmaster for the Speculative Literature Foundation, and as both Community Leader and freelance graphic designer at Lulu Enterprises, he now helps other authors make their own publishing dreams come true.

Banks is also a frequent contributor for Audacity Magazine (AudacityMagazine.com) with his column, "A Sedentary View", and continues pursuing his dream of landing a 7-figure book deal by the time he's 80. His list of publishing credits include The Rose & Thorn, Story House, StoneGarden.net, Creative Brother's Sci-Fi Magazine, The Writers Post Journal, AlienSkin Magazine, The Speculative Fiction Centre 2005 Anthology "Horizons", and Axxon Online.

His second short story collection, "Phoenix Tales: Stories of Death & Life," was published in March of 2005 through his own publishing imprint, WheelMan Press, and has received much critical acclaim. The collection contains stories that have been quarter- and semi-finalists, respectively, in the L. Ron Hubbard's Writers of the Future Contest, and the book itself is a finalist in ForeWord Magazine's 2005 Book of the Year Award. His third collection, "Like Salmon: The Geek Chronicles," is scheduled for release sometime in 2007.