Kiste, Gwendolyn

Awards:

“The Eight People Who Murdered Me (Excerpt from Lucy Westenra’s Diary)” (Nightmare Magazine Nov. 2019, Issue 86), Short Fiction, 2019

“Magic, Madness, and Women Who Creep: The Power of Individuality in the Work of Charlotte Perkins Gilman” (Vastarien: A Literary Journal Vol. 2, Issue 1), Short Non-Fiction, 2019

The Rust Maidens (Trepidatio Publishing), First Novel, 2018

Nominations:

The Haunting of Velkwood (S&S/Saga Press), Novel, 2024

Reluctant Immortals (Saga Press), Novel, 2022

The Invention of Ghosts (Nightscape Press), Long Fiction, 2020

And Her Smile Will Untether the Universe (JournalStone), Fiction Collection, 2017

BIO: Gwendolyn Kiste is the three-time Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The Rust Maidens, Reluctant Immortals, Boneset & Feathers, Pretty Marys All in a Row, and The Haunting of Velkwood. Her short fiction and nonfiction have appeared in outlets including Lit Hub, Nightmare, Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, CrimeReads, Tor Nightfire, The Lineup, and The Dark. She’s a Lambda Literary Award winner, and her fiction has also received the This Is Horror award for Novel of the Year as well as nominations for the Premios Kelvin, Ignotus, and Dragon Awards. Originally from Ohio, she now resides on an abandoned horse farm outside of Pittsburgh with her husband, their excitable calico cat, and not nearly enough ghosts. Find her online at gwendolynkiste.com