Edo van Belkom

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Edo van Belkom is a Canadian author born in 1962 in Toronto, Ontario, who earned an honors degree in creative writing from York University. He worked as a journalist from 1987 to 1992, including as a sports reporter for The Brampton Times and a police reporter for the North York Mirror, before becoming a full-time freelance writer in 1992. He has taught short story writing for the Peel Board of Education, instructed at Sheridan College, and lectured on horror and fantasy writing at the University of Toronto and Ryerson University. Van Belkom's novels include Wyrm Wolf (1995), the Dragonlance novel Lord Soth (1997), Teeth (2001), Martyrs (2001), and Army of the Dead (2021), and he has published roughly two hundred short stories spanning science fiction, fantasy, horror, and mystery, collected in volumes such as Death Drives a Semi (1997); he also produced the nonfiction interview collection Northern Dreamers (1998), profiling Canadian speculative fiction authors. He won the 1997 Bram Stoker Award for Short Fiction for Rat Food, co-authored with David Nickle, and Wyrm Wolf was a Bram Stoker finalist and Locus bestseller. He has received nineteen Aurora Award nominations with three wins, plus the Ontario Library Association's Silver Birch award, and served as Guest of Honor at the World Horror Convention in 2009.

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• Lord Soth (1996) · Dragonlance Expanded Canon

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• Total Core Canon books across all universes: 17 books
• Award recognitions across all universes: 0 (None recorded)

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