Colby Smith was born and raised in Beckley, WV and is currently based in Cleveland, OH. A member of the Neo-Decadent international art movement, he is the author of The Ironic Skeletons (Snuggly Books, 2022) and, with comix artist Josh Bayer, Fish Turn Colors Then Break In My Hands (Stone Church Press, 2023). His first short fiction collection, The Universe as Performance Art, is forthcoming from Eibonvale Press.