Forrest Aguirre

{{Short description|American author}}

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Forrest Aguirre (born July 29, 1969{{cite web|url=https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/146768.Forrest_Aguirre|title=Forrest Aguirre|website=www.goodreads.com}}) is an American fantasy and horror author, and winner of the 2003 World Fantasy Award{{cite web|author=World Fantasy Convention |year=2010 |title=Award Winners and Nominees |url=http://www.worldfantasy.org/awards/awardslist.html/ |accessdate=February 4, 2011 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101201074405/http://worldfantasy.org/awards/awardslist.html |archivedate=December 1, 2010 |df=mdy }} for his editing work on Leviathan 3, for which he was also a Philip K. Dick Award nominee. He recently edited the anthology Text:UR – The New Book of Masks. His own fiction has been published in a number of genre periodicals and in the collection Fugue XXIX, and his first novel Swans Over the Moon is coming soon from Wheatland Press.{{cite web |url=http://www.rawdogscreaming.com/authors.htm#fa |title= Raw Dog Screaming Press|website=www.rawdogscreaming.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060821201617/http://www.rawdogscreaming.com/authors.htm |archive-date=August 21, 2006}} He often writes about Africa, and is deeply interested in the continent.{{cite web|url=https://www.sfsite.com/10b/fa162.htm|title=The SF Site: An Interview With Forrest Aguirre|website=www.sfsite.com}}