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Shane Hawk is a horror writer, editor, and creator of the Native Horror Index. He serves as a contributing editor at Counterpoint Press, where he exclusively acquires and edits works by Indigenous North American writers. His writing career began in 2020 with the release of his short story collection Anoka. Hawk is the coeditor of the bestselling anthology series Never Whistle at Night and cowriter of the horror stage play The Land Has Spoken. He lives in San Diego, California, with his wife and daughter, and is an enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma.