Daryl Gregory is an American science fiction, fantasy, and comic book author born in 1965 in Darien, Illinois. He attended the Michigan State University Clarion science fiction workshop in 1988, a prestigious program for developing writers in the speculative fiction genre. Gregory's work has received recognition within the science fiction community. His novel Pandemonium won the Crawford Award in 2009, an honor given to the best first book in fantasy or science fiction published in a given year.