Awards:
The Place of Broken Things (Crystal Lake Publishing), Poetry Collection, 2019
Lifetime Achievement Award, 2017
Mentor of the Year Award, 2015
Four Elements (Bad Moon Books/Evil Jester Press), Poetry Collection, 2013
How to Recognize a Demon Has Become Your Friend, Poetry Collection, 2011
Being Full of Light, Insubstantial, Poetry Collection, 2007
Consumed, Reduced to Beautiful Grey Ashes, Poetry Collection, 2001
Nominations:
Everything Endless (Raw Dog Screaming Press), Poetry Collection, 2025
Sycorax’s Daughters (Cedar Grove Publishing), Anthology, 2017
Dark Duet (NECON eBooks), Poetry Collection, 2012
BIO: Linda D. Addison is the first African-American recipient of the HWA Bram Stoker Award® and has received five awards for collections in the Poetry category. She was also part of three books that were finalists for the HWA Bram Stoker Award.
She is the only author with fiction in four landmark anthologies that celebrate African-American speculative writers: the award-winning anthology Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction (Warner Aspect), Dark Dreams I and II (Kensington), and Dark Thirst (Pocket Book).
Addison’s work has made frequent appearances over the years on the honorable mention list for Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror and Year’s Best Science-Fiction.
She has published over 500 poems, stories and articles, a founding member of the writer’s group Circles in the Hair (CITH) and a member of HWA, SFPA, SFWA and IAMTW.
