Given the question: Facts: - genre: fantasy - birth date: 1960 - name: john c. hocking - occupation: novelist , short story author - magnum opus: '' conan and the emerald lotus '' Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of john c. hocking .
The answer is:
john c. hocking -lrb- born 1960 -rrb- is an american fantasy writer , the author of a conan novel published by tor books and a number of short stories .one of his stories , '' the face in the sea '' , won the 2009 harper 's pen award for sword and sorcery fiction .