Allen Renfro makes his home in Knoxville, Tennessee and is a native Tennessean. A graduate of Tennessee's oldest college, Tusculum, he frequently appeared in the small press and underground zines of the early to mid 1990s. A published poet and artist, he has tackled controversial subjects and is making a name for himself in dark fiction. He is the author of the critically acclaimed epic supernatural thriller The Raised. Snap is his second published novel.