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John Bruni was born on July 25, 1978 in Elmhurst, Illinois. He attended local schools from kindergarten all the way through college, where he spent time as a journalist for the Elmhurst College Leader, writing comic book reviews, an occasional feature article, and a series of regular columns as THE STRAIGHT with his Primitive Underbelly partner, Jesse “GonZo” Russell (whose story, “Bear’s Tale, Abridged” appears in TABARD INN). He was also the poetry editor of the campus literary/art magazine, MIDDLEWESTERN VOICE, for a whole two weeks, during which time he chose none of the poems that were published.
He likes to think he’s a professional writer, as he tends to get paid for his work from time to time. With two hundred publications to his name, his recent work has appeared, most prestigiously, in THE MONSTERS NEXT DOOR (themonstersnextdoor.com) and the NITEBLADE paperback anthology, LOST INNOCENCE (niteblade.com), CTHULHU SEX MAGAZINE, DETECTIVE MYSTERY STORIES, DOWN IN THE DIRT (www.scars.tv), THE NOCTURNAL LYRIC, NUTHOUSE, NIGHT TO DAWN, VAMPIRES 2, TRAIL OF INDISCRETION, MAN'S STORY 2, and the paperback anthology, BALANCE. Future publications include a story to appear in ART TIMES, FROM THE ASYLUM, AOIFE'S KISS and ALL HALLOWS. One of his poetry reviews has also been published in the Winter 2006 issue of BIBLIOPHILOS (vol. XII, no. 4), but his contributors copies got lost in the mail, and this issue has sold out. If anyone out there has a copy of this magazine, please get in contact with him at editor@talesofquestionabletaste.com. John Bruni is kind of creeped out by writing about himself in the third person, so he’s going to stop now. Besides, the screaming of kidnapped whores in his cellar is distracting him . . and he must do something about this right now. Buy his magazine, TABARD INN: TALES OF QUESTIONABLE TASTE. Buy more than one. It's inexpensive, and he's tired of having a house full of boxes. He needs the space. Please? Don't make him pull the trigger. Please? |
He has worked several jobs, among them selling ad space for a local newspaper publisher. He was not very good at this (in fact, one might say he was fuckin’ dismal) and was quickly shown the door, but he managed to place a few stories with a couple of their publications (COLLEGE NEWS and CHICAGO COMMUTER). He was unjustly fired from the library featured in "Tales from the Library" and now works as a teleconference operator, where he is much happier.