USA Today Best-selling author Weston Ochse has been hailed by the American Library Association as “one of the major horror authors of the 21st Century (Seigel).” His work has won the Bram Stoker Award, been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, and won four New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards. A writer of more than forty books in multiple genres, his Burning Sky Duology has been hailed as the best military horror of the generation. His military supernatural series SEAL Team 666 is being shopped to be a movie with Dwayne Johnson and his military sci fi trilogy, which starts with Grunt Life, has been praised for its PTSD-positive depiction of soldiers at peace and at war. The books have also been characterized by scholars as the "perfect description of why it is not possible for soldiers to ever return to civilian life (Cooper)."
Weston's shorter work has appeared in DC Comics, IDW Comics, Soldier of Fortune Magazine, Cemetery Dance, Weird Tales, and peered literary journals. His franchise work includes the X-Files, Predator, Aliens, Hellboy, AVP, Joe Ledger, Sherlock Holmes, Clive Barker’s Nightbreed, and was a core author that established the Netflix V-Wars Series.
Weston holds a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing and teaches in the graduate program at Southern New Hampshire University. He is also a veteran with a combined 37 years of service, including multiple deployments, including two recent deployments to Afghanistan. He lives in Arizona with his wife, and fellow author, Yvonne Navarro and their many animals.
Feel free to reach out to him regarding any of his experiences, or if you just want to talk about your service.
CITE:
Cooper, Benjamin. “Conclusion.” Veteran Americans: Literature and Citizenship from Revolution to Reconstruction, University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst, 2018.
Siegel, Becky, and Spratford. The Readers’ Advisory Guide to Horror (Ala Readers’ Advisory Series). American Library Association, 2012.
