Bryant O'Hara was born in Long Beach, California, the son of a Marine Corps technician from Heflin, Alabama and a data entry clerk from Decatur, Georgia, both of whom instilled a love of music, art, technology, and the pursuit of knowledge. He received dual degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Humanities from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 1993. His poetry has been published in Pandemic Atlanta 2020, Star*Line Magazine, and Eyedrum Periodically, as well as recognized in the Science Fiction Poetry Association's Poetry Contest, long form division. Bryant is a member of the Tau Kappa Epsilon Fraternity and the Science Fiction Poetry Association, and is an ordained minister in the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. He lives in Stone Mountain, Georgia, with his wife Alice, two out of seven children, and one out of five grandchildren.
"The Ghettobirds is populated by a wild array of sf-steampunk-Weird
characters-symbionts, biohackers, swarm robots, and a mechanical
chimera all of whom combine into a "badass boombox" of a poetic
choir. Bryant O'Hara's book is happily infected with the "Virus
Riddim," and it will infect you, too."-Lesley Wheeler, author of
The State She's In and Unbecoming
"With a vision that is sometimes dark, stark and frightening-there
is body horror and predictions of forced evolutions, mutations and
minor mayhem-O'Hara leavens this with humor, word play, riffing on
African American tropes and vernacular."-Akua Lezli Hope, author of
Them Gone
"The Ghettobirds is solidly having fun with the tropes of science
and SF, "that shake the dancehalls of spacetime." It's a fabulous
narrative of interaction with the divine and demonic in the context
of the cosmos..."-F. J. Bergmann, Editor, Star*Line Magazine
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