{{Short description|American author (born 1969)}} {{Infobox writer |name = Ken Lizzi |image = |caption = |birth_date = {{birth date and age|1969|03|21}} |birth_place = Los Angeles County, California, U.S. |death_date = |death_place = |occupation = Author, lawyer |genre = speculative fiction |movement = |influences = |influenced = |website = {{URL|kenlizzi.net}} }} '''Kenneth Allan Lizzi Jr.''' is an American lawyer and writer of speculative and crime fiction. He writes as '''Ken Lizzi'''.
==Biography== Lizzi was born March 21, 1969, in Los Angeles County, California, son of Kenneth Allan Lizzi Sr., and Barbara Kay Becraft.<ref name="CBI">''California Birth Index, 1905-1995'' at CaliforniaBirthIndex.org.</ref> He grew up in Portland, Oregon, attending high school in West Linn, and college at Portland State University. As an adult he has served in the military and made his living as an attorney, writing on the side.<ref name="KLA">Lizzi, Ken. "[https://www.kenlizzi.net/about/ About Us]," at kenlizzi.net.</ref><ref name="MCI">Calvani, Mayra. "Interview with Ken Lizzi, author of 'Under Strange Suns,'" in Entertainment Examiner, Dec. 22, 2015.</ref> He lived in Portland with his wife Isa, a native of Mexico, and daughter Victoria Valentina,<ref name="MCI"/> until moving his family from Oregon to Texas in 2022, where they presently live in Houston.<ref name="KLSotW">Lizzi, Ken. "[https://www.kenlizzi.net/the-state-of-the-writer/ State of the Writer]," blog post at kenlizzi.net, July 9, 2023.</ref><ref name="MCI"/> He collects paperback novels and antique weapons and enjoys reading, homebrewing, cooking, exercise, and travel.<ref name="KLA"/><ref name="MCI"/>
==Literary career== Lizzi's self-proclaimed goal as a writer "is to help infuse a pulp sensibility into 21st Century fiction."<ref name="KLA"/> He cites as influences Robert E. Howard, Raymond Chandler, Fritz Leiber,<ref name="KLA"/> and Edgar Rice Burroughs,<ref name="MCI"/> among others. His work has been published by Dark Horse Books, Short-Story.me, PulpEmpire; DeepWood Publishing, Kerlak Publishing, PulpCorner.com, Twilight Times Books, Aratus Scrivenery, and Aethon Books.<ref name="KLA"/>
==Bibliography== ===Cesar the Bravo=== *"Bravo" (in ''Pulp Empire Volume 6: Pirates & Swashbucklers'' (Aug. 2011)) *"The Fire Demon—or Brava" (in ''Swords and Sorcery Magazine'', iss. 39, May 2015)<ref name="ISFDB">{{ISFDB name|id=212442|name=Ken Lizzi}}</ref> *"The Quarto Volume, or Knowledge, Good and Evil" (in ''Swords and Sorcery Magazine'', iss. 48, Feb. 2016)<ref name="ISFDB"/> *"The Bronze Helm" (in ''Tales from the Magician's Skull'', special #2, Oct. 2022)<ref name="ISFDB"/> *"The Red Hat" (in ''Cirsova Magazine'', Winter 2024)<ref name="ISFDB"/> *"Witch Hunt" (in ''Cesar the Bravo'', 2025) *''Cesar the Bravo'' (collection, 2025)<ref name="CtB">[https://cirsova.wordpress.com/2025/06/09/coming-soon-ken-lizzis-cesar-the-bravo/ "Coming Soon: Ken Lizzi’s Cesar the Bravo!" (announcement at cirsova.wordpress.com, posted June 9, 2025)]</ref>
===Falchion's Company=== #''Boss'' (Jan. 2020) #''Captain'' (Apr. 2020) #''Warlord'' (Jun. 2020)
===Semi-Autos and Sorcery=== #''Blood and Jade'' (Aug. 2021)<ref name="ISFDB"/> #''Santa Anna's Sword'' (Sep. 2021)<ref name="ISFDB"/> #''Obsidian Owl'' (Oct. 2021)<ref name="ISFDB"/> #''Silver and Bone'' (Mar. 2023)
===Other novels=== *''Reunion'' (Jan. 2014)<ref name="ISFDB"/> *''Under Strange Suns'' (Aug. 2015) *''Thick As Thieves'' (May 2020)
===Other short fiction=== *"The Value of Proper Intelligence to Any Successful Military Campaign is Not to be Underestimated" (in ''Star Wars Tales'' 19, Apr. 2004) (with Lucas Marangon) *"Trustworthy" (in ''Noir: A Collection of Crime Comics'' (Nov. 2009) (with Joëlle Jones) *"Breaking the Line" (in ''Short-Story.Me! Best Genre Short Stories Anthology #1'' (2010) *''Savage Journal'' (chapbook) (Feb. 2011) *''Murder Extempore'' (chapbook) (2012) *"Bargains" (in ''The Big Bad: An Anthology of Evil'' (May 2013))<ref name="ISFDB"/> *"Escapement" (in ''Ancient New'' (Nov. 2013, reprinted May 2017))<ref name="ISFDB"/> *"Resource" (in ''The Ways of Magic'' (Mar. 2014))<ref name="ISFDB"/> *"Mischosen" (in ''The Death God's Chosen'' (May 2014), and ''Cosmic Scream'' (Feb. 2018))<ref name="ISFDB"/> *"Copperhead Road" (in ''Mama Tried: Crime Fiction Inspired By Outlaw Country Music'' (2016)) *"House Odds" (in ''Cirsova: Magazine of Thrilling Adventure and Daring Suspense'', Winter 2022)<ref name="ISFDB"/> *''Ursula Bruin'' (serialized on Kindle Vella, Aug. 27, 2023-Sep. 24, 2023) *"Folgin the Grim: Retribution" (in ''Swords & Sorceries: Tales of Heroic Fantasy Volume 9'', Nov. 2024)
==References== {{Reflist}}
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