Malcolm R. Campbell is the author of magical realism (Conjure Woman's Cat, Eulalie and Washerwoman, Lena, Florida Folk Magic Stories, Widely Scattered Ghosts) and fantasy (The Sun Singer, Sarabande, At Sea, and Mountain Song). Special Investigative Reporter, a satire. was released in 2019. Fate's Arrows was released in September 2020.
His work has appeared in The Lascaux Prize 2014 Anthology, Spirits of St. Louis: Missouri Ghost Stories Anthology, “Quail Bell Magazine,” “A View inside Glacier National Park: 100 years, 100 Stories,” “Future Earth Magazine,” “The Smoking Poet Magazine,” “Nonprofit World Magazine,” “Nostalgia Magazine,” “Living Jackson Magazine," and "Stories that Need to Be Told 2019."
He previously worked as an insurance company's training materials designer, a police management school's course materials developer, a mental health department unit manager, a technical writer, a grant writer, a corporate communications director, and a railway museum’s volunteer collections manager.
His fantasy novels were inspired by Glacier Park Montana where he worked as a bellman and from a tour of duty aboard an aircraft carrier during the Vietnam War.
He grew up in the Florida Panhandle, a wondrous place often called “the other Florida” and “the forgotten coast,” that was the perfect environment for growing up and learning about writing and magical realism.
Campbell lives on a north Georgia farm with his wife, Lesa, and their two cats.
