Lewis Shiner is a writer. He began his career writing science fiction, then cyberpunk, and now writes mainstream novels with magical realism and fantasy elements. Several of his novels have rock music as a theme or main focus, especially the musicians of the late 1960s. Shiner is a contributing author to the anthology Wild Cards. In 2007, he created the web site Fiction Liberation Front as a venue for his short stories. In 2007, he began a weekly column about comic books called "Graphic Scenes" at The News & Observer. Shiner received his B.A. in English from Southern Methodist University.