American · b. 1965
Daryl Gregory is an American science fiction, fantasy, and comic book author born in 1965 in Darien, Illinois. A graduate of the Clarion science fiction workshop, he won the 2009 Crawford Award for his debut novel Pandemonium and has since built a body of work — including Afterparty, Spoonbenders, and Revelator — known for fusing genre premises with literary craft and dark humor. His novella We Are All Completely Fine won both the World Fantasy Award and the Shirley Jackson Award. His 2025 novel When We Were Real, about two friends on a bus tour through the glitches of a simulated world, was a finalist for the 2026 Nebula Award for Best Novel. Gregory's fiction regularly explores identity, memory, and reality through inventive, character-driven speculative premises, and his short stories have appeared in numerous best-of-the-year anthologies.