NOMINATIONS:
Mary Shelley Makes a Monster (Aqueduct Press), Poetry Collection, 2019
Category: Poetry Collection
Tantlinger, Sara
Awards:
The Devil’s Dreamland (Strangehouse Books), Poetry Collection, 2018
Nominations:
Chromophobia: A Strangehouse Anthology by Women in Horror (Strangehouse Books), Anthology, 2022
Not All Monsters: A Strangehouse Anthology by Women of Horror (Rooster Republic Press), Anthology, 2020
Cradleland of Parasites (Rooster Republic Press), Poetry Collection, 2020
To Be Devoured (Unnerving), Long Fiction, 2019
BIO: Sara Tantlinger is the author of the Bram Stoker Award-winning The Devil’s Dreamland: Poetry Inspired by H.H. Holmes, and the Stoker-nominated works To Be Devoured, Cradleland of Parasites, and Not All Monsters. Along with being a mentor for the HWA Mentorship Program, she is also a co-organizer for the HWA Pittsburgh Chapter. She embraces all things macabre and can be found lurking in graveyards or on Twitter @SaraTantlinger, at saratantlinger.com and on Instagram @inkychaotics.
Lynch, Donna
Nominations:
Girls from the County (Raw Dog Screaming Press), Poetry Collection, 2022
Choking Back the Devil (Raw Dog Screaming Press), Poetry Collection, 2019
Witches (Raw Dog Screaming Press), Poetry Collection, 2018
BIO: Donna Lynch is a horror and dark fiction poet & author, and the lead singer, lyricist, and co-founder of the band Ego Likeness. She has written two novels, ‘Isabel Burning’ and ‘Red Horses’; a novella, ‘Driving Through the Desert’; and numerous poetry collections, including the 2018 Stoker-nominated illustrated book ‘Witches’, a collaboration with her partner, artist Steven Archer. She lives in Maryland.
Cowen, David E.
Nominations:
Bleeding Saffron (Weasel Press), Poetry Collection, 2018
BIO: David E. Cowen is a native Texan who makes his home in Houston, Texas. He is the author of the Bram Stoker Award nominated Bleeding Saffron (Weasel Press 2018), and The Seven Yards of Sorrow (Weasel Press 2016) and The Madness of Empty Spaces (Weasel Press 2014) both of which were on the Bram Stoker Award preliminary ballots for their respective publication years. David has published fiction in a number of presses and anthologies including the award-winning series Exotic Gothic (PS Publishing) and has published poems in a number of magazines and e-zines in several countries. David has written several non-fiction pieces which were published in thisibelieve.org, CineAction magazine and The Encyclopedia of the Zombie: The Walking Dead in Popular Culture and Myth. David was the editor of HWA’s Poetry Showcase Vols. III and IV. David was a 5-time president and is a Lifetime Member of the Gulf Coast Poets Chapter of the Texas Poetry Society.
Murray, Lee
Awards:
“I Don’t Read Horror (& Other Weird Tales)” (Interstellar Flight Magazine) (Interstellar Flight Press), Short Non-Fiction, 2022
Tortured Willows: Bent. Bowed. Unbroken. (Yuriko Publishing), Poetry Collection, 2021
“Permanent Damage” (Attack From the ’80s) (Raw Dog Screaming Press), Short Fiction, 2021
Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women (Omnium Gatherum Media), Anthology, 2020
Grotesque: Monster Stories (Things in the Well), Fiction Collection, 2020
Mentor of the Year Award, 2019
Nominations:
Fox Spirit on a Distant Cloud (The Cuba Press), Poetry Collection, 2024
“Displaced Spirits” (Unquiet Spirits: Essays by Asian Women in Horror, Black Spot Books), Short Non-fiction, 2023
Unquiet Spirits: Essays by Asian Women in Horror (Black Spot Books), Non-fiction, 2023
Despatches (PS Publishing), Long Fiction, 2023
Into the Ashes (Severed Press), Novel, 2019
“Dead End Town” (Cthulhu Deep Down Under Volume 2) (IFWG Publishing International), Short Fiction, 2018
Hellhole: An Anthology of Subterranean Terror (Adrenaline Press), Anthology, 2018
BIO: Lee Murray is a writer, editor, poet, essayist, and screenwriter from Aotearoa, and a New Zealand Prime Minister’s Award winner for Literary Achievement in Fiction. A USA Today bestselling author and multiple award-winner (including Sir Julius Vogel, Australian Shadows, Shirley Jackson, and Bram Stoker awards), Lee’s works include the Taine McKenna military thrillers, supernatural crime-noir series The Path of Ra (with Dan Rabarts), fiction collection Grotesque: Monster Stories, as well as several books for children. Her short fiction has appeared in numerous anthologies and magazines, including prestigious venues such as Weird Tales, Space and Time, and Grimdark Magazine. She is proud to have edited more than two dozen anthologies, among them award-winning titles Baby Teeth: Bite Sized Tales of Terror and At the Edge (with Dan Rabarts), Te Kōrero Ahi Kā (with Grace Bridges and Aaron Compton), Hellhole: An Anthology of Subterranean Terror, Midnight Echo #14, Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women (with Geneve Flynn), and Under Her Eye (with Lindy Ryan). A Rhysling- and Pushcart-nominated poet, Lee’s poetry collection, Tortured Willows: Bent, Bowed, Unbroken, is a collaboration with poets Christina Sng, Geneve Flynn, and Angela Yuriko Smith. Her first solo poetry collection, Fox Spirit on a Distant Cloud (2024), won her a Grimshaw Sargeson Fellowship and the NZSA Laura Solomon Cuba Press Prize for ‘unique and innovative vision’. Lee is a life member of Tauranga Writers, New Zealand’s longest standing writing group, and of SpecFicNZ, and she’s an Honorary Literary Fellow of the New Zealand Society of Authors. Lee lives over the hill from Hobbiton in New Zealand’s sunny Bay of Plenty where she dreams up stories from her office overlooking a cow paddock. Read more at www.leemurray.info.
Smith, Angela Yuriko
Awards:
“Horror Writers: Architects of Hope” (The Sirens Call, Halloween 2021, Issue 55) (Sirens Call Publications), Short Non-fiction, 2021
Tortured Willows: Bent. Bowed. Unbroken. (Yuriko Publishing), Poetry Collection, 2021
Nominations:
Unquiet Spirits: Essays by Asian Women in Horror (Black Spot Books), Non-fiction, 2023
Bitter Suites (CreateSpace), Long Fiction, 2018
BIO: Angela Yuriko Smith is a third-generation Ryukyuan-American, award-winning poet, author, and publisher with 20+ years in newspapers. Publisher of Space & Time magazine (est. 1966), two-time Bram Stoker Awards® Winner, and HWA Mentor of the Year, she shares Authortunities, a free weekly calendar of author opportunities at authortunities.substack.com.
