C.M. Forest, also known as Christian Laforet, is the author of the Benjamin Franklin award winning novel Infested, the novella We All Fall Before the Harvest, and the short story collection The Roots Run Deep. His short fiction has been featured in over a dozen anthologies. A self-proclaimed horror movie expert, he spent an embarrassing amount of his youth watching scary movies. He lives in Ontario, Canada with his wife, kids, four cats and a pandemic dog named Sully who has an ongoing love affair with a blanket.