Christopher Ruz fell in love with dark fiction when a worn copy of Pet Semetary caught his eye at a local flea market. He bought it with his pocket money and hid it under his bed so his parents wouldn’t see. He was just eight years old and had no idea what he was getting into. Poor kid.
He has written and published horror, epic fantasy, science fiction, and children's choose-your-own-adventure books.
When not writing fiction, Christopher Ruz has worked as a teacher, designer, magazine editor, ghostwriter for business leaders, and one-time stuntman (don't ask). He lives in Melbourne, Australia.

Ruz can also do twelve chinups. Neat!

His debut trad-pub novel, a supernatural horror story set in the halls of the world’s weirdest hedge fund, arrives mid-2027.
His best known self-published works are The Ragged Blade (Parvus Press, 2019) and his ongoing horror series Rust. Meanwhile, he publishes the Olesia Anderson series of pulpy spy novellas under the pseudonym D.D. Marks, and writes Adventure Coloring Books for Insight Editions . He has sold stories to Andromeda Spaceways and Apollo’s Daughters, has beaten the grueling Immerse or Die challenge twice, and was a finalist in the 2017 Aurealis Awards. When not writing, Ruz teaches art and design at Melbourne high schools.

Ruz is represented by Maeve MacLysaght at Aevitas Creative Management.

Muffin is Christopher’s cat. She’s a very good girl. She likes sitting on Christopher’s laptop because her mission in life is to hoard all the heat in the universe. She likes eating rice crackers. Why? Well, why not?

CHRISTOPHER RUZ’S Publications

Visiting Skins, Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine (2026)

Hack Attack! An Unofficial Roblox Coloring Adventure, Insight Editions (2026)

Taylor Swift in Every Era: An Unofficial Coloring Adventure, Insight Editions (2025)

XOMG POP! A World Tour Colouring Adventure, Insight Editions (2024)

The Ragged Blade, Parvus Press (2019)

Pan, Andromeda Spaceways Best Stories of 2016 (2016)

Pan, Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #62 (2016)

Weary, collected in Apollo’s Daughters by Silence in the Library Publishing (2015)

The King, Birdville Magazine (2011)

Occupied, Labyrinth Inhabitants Magazine (2009)

Charlie Brooker’s LOSER OF THE MONTH, PC Zone Magazine (June 1999)

For commercial inquiries, please contact Maeve MacLysgaht at Aevitas Creative Management

MUFFIN’S PUBLICATIONS

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She’s very, very cute.