
NOMINATIONS:
Girl in the Creek (Tor Nightfire), Novel, 2025
BIO: Wendy N. Wagner is a hiker, trail runner, and Stoker award-nominated horror author (with novels including Girl in the Creek and The Deer Kings) whose short fiction has been nominated for the Theodore Sturgeon and Shirley Jackson awards. She’s a two-time Locus award nominee for her work editing Nightmare Magazine and is part of the Hugo award-winning editorial team at Lightspeed Magazine. She lives in Oregon with her very understanding family, a giant cat, and a Muppet disguised as a dog. Find her at winniewoohoo.com.

