NOMINATIONS:
Moonflow (Run For It), First Novel, 2025
BIO: Bitter Karella (He/She/They) is a genderfluid transvestite goblin and horror writer from California. He is the author of the Stoker-nominated novel “Moonflow,” the novella “The Ballad of Horse Girl,” and the forthcoming novel “Quaint Folk.”
Karella writes gonzo psycho-sexual body horror with a grotesquely humorous edge. Her short story “Low Tide Jenny,” originally published in Seize the Press magazine, was a winner of the Brave New Weird award for best new weird fiction of 2022 by Tenebrous Press. They are also the creator of the three time Hugo-nominated microfiction comedy account @Midnight_Pals which asks what if all your favorite horror writers were to gather around the campfire and tell scary stories like in the classic Nickelodeon series “Are You Afraid of the Dark?”
Karella lives with his partner, three cats, and a tarantula. More information can be found on her website www.bitterkarella.com
