Chandler Morrison is a Cleveland-based fiction novelist from Helltown, California. His writing typically explores taboo topics, and tends to be harshly critical of American society and culture. He is known for being brazenly outspoken about his misanthropic contempt for human beings, and his relentless attacks on cultural norms and societal constructs. Some of his influences include Bret Easton Ellis, Chuck Palahniuk, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Edgar Allan Poe, Donald Ray Pollock, Marilyn Manson, Trent Reznor, and Roger Waters.