Cameron Pierce lives in Portland, Oregon with his wife, author Kirsten Alene. He has been a taxidermist’s assistant, a paperboy, a shellfish farmer, a college dropout, and an extra in a Gus Van Sant film.
His work has been praised by The Guardian, Cracked.com, Details Magazine, Lloyd Kaufman, New York Times bestselling authors Piers Anthony and John Skipp, S.G. Browne, Carlton Mellick III, SF Site, and New Times, along with many others.
His fiction and poetry has appeared in The Barcelona Review, The Bizarro Starter Kit (Purple), The Pedestal Magazine, The Nervous Breakdown, Verbicide, Christmas on Crack, Bust Down the Door and Eat All the Chickens, The Dream People, Nemonymous, The Magazine of Bizarro Fiction, Everyday Genius, Bare Bone, Avant-Garde for the New Millennium, Kill Author, The Horror Library Vol. II, Metazen, Thieves Jargon, and Beckett Football Monthly (when he was eight).
In 2006, he participated in Borderlands Boot Camp, studying under Thomas Monteleone, F. Paul Wilson, Douglas Clegg, and Thomas Tessier.
In 2009, his Meat Magick performance series traveled around the Pacific Northwest, taking place at bars, house parties, McMenamins Edgefield, and the Seattle Center.
In 2011, his short story collection Lost in Cat Brain Land won the Wonderland Book Award for best collection of the year.
Cameron is also the editor of Lazy Fascist Press.
