Owl Goingback

Early life

According to his personal website, Owl Goingback was given the surname Heidbrink at the age of ten, when he was adopted by his stepfather Carl M. Heidbrink. According to the Daily Beast, the author legally changed his name to Owl Goingback in 2000 in Seminole County, Florida.

In his biographical statements, Goingback writes that he grew up in the rural Midwest, and that his mother's name was Quiet Starr. He dropped out of high school his senior year to join the United States Air Force and later attended Embry–Riddle Aeronautical University. On January 5, 1978, Goingback married Nancy Santos Bello, with whom he has two sons, Jason and Michael.

Writing Goingback writes horror fiction novels, often with Native American subject matter. and that he travels throughout the United States lecturing about "the customs and folklore of the American Indians" As of March 2024, the author's website states that he is of "mixed blood Native American heritage (Choctaw/Cherokee, not enrolled, and Caucasian)."

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