SFF Author: Dyrk Ashton

Dyrk Ashton was born in Athens (Ohio, not Greece) on a chilly Halloween morning. He earned a BFA and masters degrees in filmmaking at The Ohio State University, which lead to working in film production in Columbus, OH, where he crawled his way up from production assistant to grip then production manager and producer for commercials, industrial films and low budget features. He then headed west to Los Angeles where he wrote and pitched scripts but fed and clothed himself as a “jack-of-all-trades”: editor, assistant editor, location sound recordist, cinematographer, assistant director, production manager, producer, you name it.

Mostly, however, he made his living as a SAG/AFTRA actor, appearing in nothing you’ve ever seen. After nearly six years of scraping by in L.A., he moved back to the Midwest and went to Bowling Green State University for a PhD in Film Studies. He spent four years in a tenure track position then began teaching entirely online and found he actually had time to read books again — fiction, sci-fi, fantasy — not just academic journals and textbooks. Then he realized he actually had time to write.

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