The Carcosa Interview: Tristan J. Tarwater

Tristan is a writer. Pause. Rewind. Tristan is a Portland, OR based writer of “fantasy, comics and RPG bits” who work has created a fangirl in me. I first became aware of their work through a mutual person on twitter when they were promoting the Kickstarter campaign to Shamsee: A Fistful of Lunars, a comic that they are the writer for,  which features a roughish type hero….who always finds himself in and out of trouble. I missed the deadline for the Kickstarter which was successfully funded and bought a print copy afterward. Then I stumbled head first into the rest of their body of work and haven’t regretted it. I LOVE to read and I also love finding authors, especially folks of color who have diverse characters set in unique worlds crafted with care. (And side note: don’t they have the coolest name ever?! I feel like they are an optional character in a famed RPG game of yesteryear that everyone spent hours obtaining to join their party) Without further ado, here is Tristan J. Tarwater, author of ‘The Valley of Ten Crescents’ series and so much more!  Black Nerd Problems: Origin story time! Can you give us the short version of how you came to be on the path that you are now? Just how did you become Tristan J. Tarwater, the writer? When did you know that you wanted to write? Tristan J. Tarwater: As a kid, I always loved reading. I grew up in NYC and my mom wasn’t super keen on letting me run around in the streets, so sitting in my room for hours and reading fiction was a pe…