Biography
X. Dimitri Audirac was born in Guadalajara, Mexico, and spent his childhood moving from post to post with his Army mother, never staying anywhere long enough to call it home. He now lives in Copperas Cove, Texas. Autistic from birth, he has always seen the world at a slightly different angle, a perspective that finds its way into everything he writes.
He found his calling in high school, somewhere between the pages of Tolkien, and he hasn't stopped writing since. He's currently studying English with a concentration in Creative Writing. In high school, three of his poems were published, "A Conglomerate of Dreams" in Futures and "Mind Labyrinth" in Illustrious by The America Library of Poetry in 2018 and 2019 respectively, and "The Overlooked Cure" in 2019 Rising Stars Collection by Appelley Publishing in 2019. Audirac writes dark and modern fantasy, along with psychological and cosmic thrillers, drawing on the shadowed traditions of H.P. Lovecraft and Joseph Campbell Jr. His work searches for the ancient beneath the ordinary: myths that still breathe under city streets, and old powers waiting just past the edge of the familiar. His first novel, The Earth Warrior, is currently in progress.
Future Goals
X. Dimitri Audirac’s next step is finishing The Earth Warrior and revising it until the opening can hold an agent’s attention. He is still a full-time student, so the manuscript moves in stretches rather than on a clean daily quota, but it has been moving. When the draft is ready, he plans to put up a straightforward author website and write query letters for agents. He would rather find representation than self-publish first. The two poems published in 2018 and 2019 showed him he could finish and place work. The novel is the project he wants his name attached to, and he does not plan to use a separate pen name. After the first book, he expects to stay with dark fantasy and modern fantasy mixed with cosmic and psychological dreads that interest him. Short fiction may go out to journals later if it helps the longer work, but the present job is to complete the manuscript and look organized enough so that an agent can take him seriously.
