Category: Fiction Collection

Khaw, Cassandra

Awards:

Breakable Things (Undertow Publications), Fiction Collection, 2022

Nothing But Blackened Teeth (Tor Nightfire), Long Fiction, 2021

Nominations:

The Salt Grows Heavy (Tor Nightfire/Macmillan/Titan), Long Fiction, 2023

BIO: USA Today bestselling author Cassandra Khaw’s books include, Hammers on Bone, a British Fantasy award and Locus award finalist, The All-Consuming World, one of the Washington Post’s Best science fiction, fantasy and horror books of 2021, and their most recent novella, Nothing But Blackened Teeth, a Japanese haunted house story described as “sharp, playful, and nasty as hell,” which was a Bram Stoker Award Finalist.

Their work has been translated or is in the process of being translated to Catalan, Turkish, Russian, Bulgarian, French, and Spanish.

Their short fiction can be found in a myriad of places, including Fantasy & Science Fiction, Lightspeed, Tor.com, Nature, The Dark, and Beneath Ceaseless Skies. Khaw is also an award-winning game writer who has worked on games such as She Remembered Caterpillars (German Game Awards Best Children’s Game 2017), Wasteland 3, and Falcon Age. Cassandra has also done work for Magic: the Gathering, Dungeons & Dragons, Critical Role, World of Darkness, and Warhammer 40k.

Their last public speaking appearance was in Barcelona, where they keynoted at the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona.

They currently reside in Montreal with two inadvisably large cats, and can be found on Twitter and Instagram at @casskhaw.

Fracassi, Philip

Nominations:

Beneath a Pale Sky (Lethe Press), Fiction Collection, 2021

BIO: Philip Fracassi is the author of the award-winning story collection, Behold the Void, which won “Best Collection of the Year” from This Is Horror and Strange Aeons Magazine.

His newest collection, Beneath a Pale Sky, was published in 2021 by Lethe Press. It received a starred review from Library Journal and was named “Best Collection of the Year” by Rue Morgue Magazine. His debut novel, Boys in the Valley, was published on Halloween 2021 by Earthling Publications. His upcoming novels include A Child Alone with Strangers (August 2022, Talos Press) and Gothic (February 2023, Cemetery Dance).

Philip’s books have been translated into multiple languages, and his stories have been published in numerous magazines and anthologies, including Best Horror of the Year, Nightmare Magazine, Black Static, Dark Discoveries, and Cemetery Dance.

The New York Times calls his work “terrifically scary.”

As a screenwriter, his feature films have been distributed by Disney Entertainment and Lifetime Television. He currently has several stories under option for film/tv adaption.

For more information, visit his website at www.pfracassi.com. He also has active profiles on Facebook, Instagram (pfracassi) and Twitter (@philipfracassi).

Philip lives in Los Angeles, California, and is represented by Elizabeth Copps at Copps Literary Services (info@coppsliterary.com).

 

Lillie, Patricia

NOMINATIONS:

The Cuckoo Girls (Trepidatio Publishing), Fiction Collection, 2020

BIO: Patricia Lillie grew up in a haunted house in a small town in Northeast Ohio. Since then, she has published picture books, short stories, fonts, two novels, and her latest, The Cuckoo Girls, a collection of short stories. As Patricia Lillie, she is the author of The Ceiling Man, a novel of quiet horror, and as Kay Charles, the author of Ghosts in Glass Houses, a cozy-ish mystery with ghosts. She is a graduate of Parsons School of Design, has an MFA in Writing Popular Fiction from Seton Hill University, and teaches in Southern New Hampshire University’s MFA program. She also knits and sometimes purls.

Joseph, Rhonda Jackson

NOMINATIONS:

Hell Hath No Sorrow Like a Woman Haunted (The Seventh Terrace), Fiction Collection, 2022

“The Beloved Haunting of Hill House: An Examination of Monstrous Motherhood” (The Streaming of Hill House: Essays on the Haunting Netflix Adaption), Non-Fiction, 2020

BIO: Rhonda Jackson Garcia, AKA RJ Joseph, is an award winning, Bram Stoker Award® nominated academic and creative writer. She received her MFA in writing popular fiction from Seton Hill University and currently serves as a Professor of English at Lone Star College in Texas.

Keisling, Todd

NOMINATIONS:

Cold, Black, & Infinite (Cemetery Dance), Fiction Collection, 2023

Devil’s Creek (Silver Shamrock Publishing), Novel, 2020

BIO: TODD KEISLING is a writer and designer of the horrific and strange. His books include Scanlines, The Final Reconciliation, The Monochrome Trilogy, and Devil’s Creek, a 2020 Bram Stoker Award finalist for Superior Achievement in a Novel. A pair of his earlier works were recipients of the University of Kentucky’s Oswald Research & Creativity Prize for Creative Writing (2002 and 2005), and his second novel, The Liminal Man, was an Indie Book Award finalist in Horror & Suspense (2013). He lives in Pennsylvania with his family.

Chiang, Ted

NOMINATIONS:

Exhalation: Stories (Knopf), Fiction Collection, 2019

BIO: Ted Chiang’s fiction has won four Hugo, four Nebula, and four Locus Awards, and has been reprinted in Best American Short Stories. His first collection Stories of Your Life and Others has been translated into twenty-one languages, and the title story was the basis for Denis Villeneuve’s Oscar-nominated film Arrival starring Amy Adams. His second collection Exhalation was chosen by The New York Times as one of the 10 Best Books of 2019.