Awards:
“I Don’t Read Horror (& Other Weird Tales)” (Interstellar Flight Magazine) (Interstellar Flight Press), Short Non-Fiction, 2022
Tortured Willows: Bent. Bowed. Unbroken. (Yuriko Publishing), Poetry Collection, 2021
“Permanent Damage” (Attack From the ’80s) (Raw Dog Screaming Press), Short Fiction, 2021
Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women (Omnium Gatherum Media), Anthology, 2020
Grotesque: Monster Stories (Things in the Well), Fiction Collection, 2020
Mentor of the Year Award, 2019
Nominations:
This Way Lies Madness: Stories from the Edge of Darkness (Flame Tree Publishing), Anthology, 2025
Fox Spirit on a Distant Cloud (The Cuba Press), Poetry Collection, 2024
“Displaced Spirits” (Unquiet Spirits: Essays by Asian Women in Horror, Black Spot Books), Short Non-fiction, 2023
Unquiet Spirits: Essays by Asian Women in Horror (Black Spot Books), Non-fiction, 2023
Despatches (PS Publishing), Long Fiction, 2023
Into the Ashes (Severed Press), Novel, 2019
“Dead End Town” (Cthulhu Deep Down Under Volume 2) (IFWG Publishing International), Short Fiction, 2018
Hellhole: An Anthology of Subterranean Terror (Adrenaline Press), Anthology, 2018
BIO: Lee Murray ONZM MSc MMS is a writer, editor, poet and screenwriter from Aotearoa New Zealand, a Shirley Jackson Award and five-time Bram Stoker Award® winner. A USA Today bestselling author with more than forty titles to her credit, Lee holds a New Zealand Prime Minister’s Award for Literary Achievement in Fiction and is an Honorary Literary Fellow of the New Zealand Society of Authors. Among her recent works are multi-award-winning prose-poetry collection Fox Spirit on a Distant Cloud (The Cuba Press), feature film Grafted (Propaganda-Fluroblack) directed by Sasha Rainbow, horror anthology This Way Lies Madness (Flame Tree Press) co-edited with Dave Jeffery, and Oversight: Erasure Poetry (RIZE), a collaboration with Carina Bissett. Lee has served as a literary judge, keynote, panellist, and conference guest of honour, and is proud to be a founding member of Te Pae Tawhiti Awards for speculative fiction. In 2024, Lee received a royal honour, becoming an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for her service to speculative fiction and horror. She lives in the sunny Bay of Plenty with her husband and a naughty dog. Read more at www.leemurray.info
