Palisano won the Bram Stoker Award in short fiction for 'Happy Joe's Rest Stop' and has been nominated for a Rondo Award. His short stories have appeared in Weird Tales, Cemetery Dance, PS Publishing, Independent Legions, Space & Time, Dim Shores, Kelp Journal, Monstrous Books, DarkFuse, Crystal Lake, Terror Tales, Lovecraft eZine, Horror Library, Bizarro Pulp, Written Backwards, Dark Continents, Big Time Books, McFarland Press, Darkscribe, Dark House, Vincere Press and many more.

Non-fiction pieces have appeared in Blumhouse Online, Fangoria, and Dark Discoveries magazines and he's been quoted in Vanity Fair, The Writer, and the Los Angeles Times. He's a recent past President of the Horror Writers Association.

"Possessing a firm grasp of tradition but with his vision clearly focused on the future, John Palisano is exactly the type of writer horror needs right now: bold, brave, imaginative and unflinching."--Bentley Little, Bram Stoker Award(R) Winner

"A meditative portrait of humanity's place in the universe, John Palisano's latest is a haunting and addictive addition to an already impressive body of work. For all its dealings with the speculative, Requiem is ultimately concerned with connections and relationships, turning our heads toward the skies--and that which is still beyond our understanding--in order to better understand ourselves."--Christa Carmen, Bram Stoker Award-winning and Shirley Jackson Award-nominated author of The Daughters of Block Island

"Palisano's evocative prose makes the setting both eerie and enthralling."--Publishers Weekly

"Palisano takes the 'haunted house in space' trope and twists it into something completely fresh and totally unhinged. Requiem takes the most terrifyingly hallucinogenic moments of Event Horizon and combines them deftly, and powerfully, with the most human and heartfelt themes of Contact to create a new vision of extraterrestrial visitation, formulating a new take on one of the all-time great taglines: In space, no one can hear you scream... but you."--Philip Fracassi, author of THE THIRD RULE OF TIME TRAVEL and BOYS IN THE VALLEY

"a powerful, philosophical look at death"--Steve Stred, Award-Winning Author of Mastodon, Father of Lies & Churn the Soil

"Smart, trippy, fast-paced and packed with dread, John Palisano's Requiem is a superb horror/sci-fi hybrid that will rattle your synapses and jangle your nerves."--Lisa Morton, six-time winner of the Bram Stoker Award

"Imagine a huge cemetery floating in space and you have Requiem, an intensely creepy horror story that also asks the big questions: Are we wrong about the nature of reality? What does it mean to be human? Warning: Be prepared to feel like someone is walking on your grave."--Alma Katsu, author of The Fervor and The Hunger