Nominations:
America’s Most Gothic (Kensington Publishing), Non-Fiction, 2025
A Haunted History of Invisible Women: True Stories of America’s Ghosts (Citadel Press), Non-Fiction, 2022
BIO: Leanna Renee Hieber is a professional actress, playwright, ghost tour guide and an award-winning, bestselling author of fiction and non-fiction for Tor and Kensington Books. A Haunted History of Invisible Women: True Stories of America’s Ghosts, co-authored with Andrea Janes, was a Bram Stoker Award Finalist for Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction and their follow-up, America’s Most Gothic: Haunted History Stranger than Fiction, was an Instant USA Today Bestseller and also a Stoker nominee in the same category. Leanna’s Gothic Young Adult novel, Ravenfield Hall, is forthcoming from Union Square / Hachette. A 3-time Prism award winner for her Gothic Strangely Beautiful saga and a Daphne du Maurier finalist for Darker Still, Leanna’s novels have received translations into multiple languages and her short stories have been featured in notable anthologies while her non-fiction essays have appeared in Apex Magazine, The Deadlands, Haunted Magazine and more. Featured in film and television on shows like Mysteries at the Museum and Beyond the Unknown discussing Victorian Spiritualism, she lives in New York and lectures around the country on Gothic and paranormal themes as they intersect with women’s history. https://leannareneehieber.com
