Tristan MacAvery

Born

1958-08-16

Birthplace

Petersburg, Virginia, USA

Biography

Tristan Black Wolf is an author, actor, improvist, pathfinder, pundit, and polymath. When he’s not occupied looking up fancy words to describe himself, he writes and publishes novels, stories, blogs, the odd screenplay or twenty, and various observations about the world at large. He has published “Impossible Things,” in Children of the Moon (Misanthrope Press); “The Dare” and “No More Monday Memos” (cited for an Editor’s Choice Award for Best Use of Anthropomorphism) in Allasso (Pink Fox Publications); and several works in NAF (North American Fur). He has participated in the National Novel Writing Month competition (www.nanowrimo.org) eight times, winning seven; the result of the first win is his novel The Man With Two Shadows, which won an Honorable Mention in the 2013 Great Southeast Book Festival (New Orleans) and 2nd Place in the 2013 Great Northwest Book Festival (Seattle). His works are also featured on the SoFurry website, specifically tristan-black-wolf.sofurry.com. His work has won him well over than 800 watchers and over 250,000 page views. He’s also won the SoFurry “Summer Adventures” and “Back to Pundamentals” short story contests in 2014, and the "Penny for the Song" contest in 2016. He received his PhD in Liberal Arts, in recognition of 40 years as a published writer, in August 2016.