Edwin Decker is a freelance writer and performance artist residing in San Diego. He regularly publishes articles in various newspapers and magazines in San Diego and around the country.

His work has appeared in The San Diego Union Tribune, San Diego Reader, Modern Drunkard Magazine, Real Deal, Seattle Stranger, Tucson Weekly, Creative Loafing in Atlanta, Cleveland Scene, Exit Magazine, Smash, No Cover, Out of the Gutter, The National Pist (Canada) and his mothership magazine San Diego CityBeat.

Though a freelancer, it is in CityBeat where his column Sordid Tales runs every other week. Sordid Tales is a satiric and comical look at the world from the perspective of a veteran bartender. It is often irreverent, seedy, controversial, salacious and, of course, sordid.

He has performed spoken word in venues throughout San Diego county including the California Center for the Arts in Escondido and the Museum of the Living Artist in Balboa Park.

His book Barzilla and Other Psalms was nominated for a 2007 San Diego Book Award and his performance piece, "Questioning Innocence is Questionable," won the San Diego Visual Arts Network multi-genre Performance Slam grand prize.

Decker is also on staff at the Southern California Writer's Conference during which he runs workshops and performs other duties. Aside from writing, he is also an event planner, a vendor manager, a property manager and a bartender, having slung drinks in several San Diego's premier live music clubs including the now defunct Bacchanal, 4th and B, Buffalo Joe's, Club 710 (formerly Blind Melon's) and Winston's Beach club where he served as General Manager before being abruptly fired by an alcoholic, semi-insane, though lovable boss.

Decker grew up in Monroe, New York, a small suburbia about 50 miles northeast of Manhattan. His father (now retired) was a grounds-keeper for the New York School for the Deaf. His mother (also retired) was an elementary school teacher and union President for the Cornwall school system in upstate New York. Decker is married with no children thanks to the wonders of birth control and a like-minded wife who would rather have her eyeballs sandblasted than get pregnant.