Daryl Gregory was born with only one power: his gift to tell fantastic paranormal stories. He graduated from the University of Illinois in 1987 and that same year he married. In 1990 he was able to sell his first story to the Magazine of Fantasy and Sciencie Fiction. His first novel, Pandemonium, was published in 2008 and the following year he won the Crawford Award for best fantasy book. That same book was nominated for other awards such as the Shirley Jackson Award. Since then he has successfully published many other books that have made him one of the fantastic reference authors, although he always states that in Shakespeare there were ghosts and witches and that labeling is just a commercial trick. Throughout his life he has taught and also worked in companies such as Minitab. He has two adult children whom he also educates in fantasy. And in 2016 he moved to Oakland, California, where he lives with his new partner. Spoonbenders is his latest great novel, translated into Spanish by Blackie Books with the title The extraordinary Telemacus family.