NOMINATIONS:
“Saint Dymphna’s School for Borderland Girls” (Weird Horror #10, Undertow Publications), Short Fiction, 2025
BIO: Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece is a writer of the surreal, the strange, and the horrifying. Her fiction can be found in places like Weird Horror, Waxen, Exacting Clam, night shades, and others; her first novel, Poltergeist, an experimental eco-horror, was recently published by Apocalypse Confidential. She lives in the Upper Midwest where she teaches Film Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee to unsuspecting undergraduates, who are some of the greatest joys of her life, though the best joy is her husband, Richard. Her two cats, Mina (pictured here) and Vincent, are named after Mina Harker and Vincent Price.
