About
The Harrow Press® publishes The Harrow and its print anthologies. The Harrow Press will post its next call for stories on Halloween and begin accepting submissions on January 1, 2010.
Kfir Luzzatto
Kfir was born and raised in Italy and in 1971 moved to Israel where he completed his PhD studies in chemical engineering. He works as a patent attorney and is a senior partner in a firm established by his great-grandfather. He lives in Omer, Israel, with his full-time partner, Esther, and their four children, Michal, Lilach, Tamar and Yonatan.
Kfir has published extensively in the professional and general press over the years. For almost four years he wrote a weekly “Patents” column in Globes (Israel’s financial newspaper). His non-fiction book, THE WORLD OF PATENTS, (a not-so-boring tale of what patents are about, in Hebrew) was published in 2002 by Globes Press. He is the author of several short stories. His first novel, CROSSING THE MEADOW, was published by Echelon Press (October 2003) and was voted “BEST HORROR NOVEL” in the 2003 Preditors & Editors Readers Poll.
Kfir is an HWA (Horror Writers Association) and ITW (International Thriller Writers) member and also served on the editorial board of The Harrow as Anthology Editor. His latest novel, THE ODYSSEY GENE (July 2006) , was published by Echelon Press and was a finalist in the Indie Excellence 2007 Book Awards. He is currently working on a number of new projects.
Dru Pagliassotti
Dru was an Air Force brat and claims no home town, although she moved to Southern California for college in the 1980s and doesn’t seem likely to leave SoCal any time soon. She’s a professor of communication at California Lutheran University.
Dru worked for Sage Publications and Canon Communications in a variety of nonfiction writing and editorial roles and was the Roleplaying Guide at About.Com for a number of years. She founded The Harrow in 1998 and has published a handful of short stories. Her story “Bookmarked” at Reflection’s Edge received an honorable mention in The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror 2008. Dru’s first novel, Clockwork Heart (Juno Books, 2008), won RT Book Review’s 2008 Best Small Press/Contemporary Futuristic and is currently being translated into German as Das mechanische Herz. Her second novel, An Agreement with Hell, will be published by Apex Book Company in 2010.
Dru has also written several journal articles about boys’ love (yaoi) manga and is co-editor of Boys’ Love Manga: Essays on the Sexual Ambiguity and Cross-Cultural Fandom of the Genre, which will be coming out from McFarland in Spring 2010.