DE Bios: Rob Hardin
Rob Hardin is a writer and studio musician who lives in a once-lethal
sector of the Lower East Side. His first collection, Distorture,
won the 1997 Firecracker Alternative Book Award for Best Fiction. His
writing has been praised in Spin, Omni, New York Magazine, New York
Press, the Village Voice, Darkecho, Downtown Magazine, Locus, and
Poets & Writers; and quoted in Keyboard, Mondo 2000, and
Terminal Velocity. As a keyboardist and vocalist, he has played with
Nation of Abel, Saqquari Dogs, Pillbox, Pitch Black, PiL, 22 Brides, and
members of the Psychedelic Furs. His recent album projects include
Speedway, Truth, and Kelly Ward. Currently working on a second novel that
he describes as Bellmer noir, he avows that art can, in the abstract,
vindicate loved ones who were cheated out of life, and confesses that
writing is his way of getting dissonant counterpoint -- the chamber
music of nightmares and empty attics -- out of his system.
Rob Hardin's Web Site
And his Horrornet site