Nathan Carson is a musician, writer, and Moth StorySlam Champion from Portland, OR. He is widely known as co-founder and drummer of the internationally touring doom metal band Witch Mountain, host of the FM radio show The Heavy Metal Sewïng Cïrcle, and the owner of the boutique music booking agency, Nanotear.

Carson's byline can be found on hundreds of music and film-related articles in outlets such as the Willamette Week, Rue Morgue, Nightmare Magazine, SF Weekly, Orbitz, Noisey, Terrorizer, Metal Edge, etc.

In recent years, Carson has turned his sights toward weird fiction, earning immediate accolades and publication. He is regularly a panelist and reader on the convention circuit.

Starr Creek is Carson's first standalone novella.