Skadi meic Beorh is a storyteller whose antecedents are piracy, ferocity and lunacy and whose vision, because of Golgotha (and study of the Bible, Oswald Chambers, John Michael Abelar, and Thomas J. J. Altizer), is Magical Creatures or Übermensch. His other literary influences are many and varied, but include William Blake, T. S. Eliot, W. B. Yeats, George Russell, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Irish mythology, especially that concerning the Green Knight and Nemhthenga, translated by several renowned authors. Though he has not yet visited the site of Golgotha, he has made travel in India, the Caribbean, the American Southwest, the Deep South, the Mid-Atlantic, New England, the Mid-West, Bahrain, Oman, and, perhaps most importantly, Ireland. Music has also played an important role in his life. Midnight Oil, Bob Dylan, Pink Floyd, and The Doors have been, at different times, seminal influences but, as with the numerous books he has read, musical artists prove too many and varied to mention by name. First a writer of poetry, he has most recently worked in other forms also found to be exciting and fruitful. He is the author of the satirical novel The Pirates of St. Augustine (Wildside Press, 2010), the story collection Always After Thieves Watch (Wildside Press), the dictionary Pirate Lingo (Wildside Press), and the poetry collections Emhain Macha Dark Rain (Rebel Satori Press) and Golgotha (Punkin House Press). Several other works are either completed or in progress to include a collection of ghost stories, a new collection of tales from various perspectives (in the vein of Always After Thieves Watch), a first-person memoir fantasy set in modern-day Ireland, a YA novel set in N. Ireland, and an epic fantasy novel set in 17th century Ireland. Books on his reading list include Ulysses by James Joyce, Foundation: Matter the Body Itself by D. G. Leahy, and The Anti-Christ by Nietzsche. Other than the Bible, and specifically the Gospel of John, the most life-changing book in his history of reading is The New Gospel of Christian Atheism by the aforementioned scholar Thomas J. J. Altizer, who himself has been profoundly influenced by Leahy, Hegel, Nietzsche, and Blake. Skadi presently resides on the Atlantic Coast with his best friend Amberlynn, also a lover of graveyards, wide oceans, warm hearths, coffee, and cobblestone streets.