Bissett, Carina

AWARDS:

Silver Hammer Award, 2020

NOMINATIONS:

Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology (Essential Dreams Press), Anthology, 2025

“Words Wielded by Women” (Apex Magazine), Short Non-fiction, 2023

BIO: Carina Bissett is a writer and poet working primarily in the fields of dark fiction and fabulism. She has written numerous short stories, many of which are featured in her debut collection Dead Girl, Driving and Other Devastations (2024), and she is also a co-editor of the award-winning anthology Shadow Atlas: Dark Landscapes of the Americas (2021). She is a Shirley Jackson Award nominee for psychological horror. Her poetry has been nominated for the Rhysling Award, the Pushcart Prize, and Sundress Publications Best of the Net. And her nonfiction has been nominated for a Bram Stoker Award®. Links to her work can be found at http://carinabissett.com.