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Celebrating Our Elders: Interview with Nancy Holder

• May 21, 2023
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Nancy Holder is the former vice president and former board member of HWA. She is New York Times bestselling author of over a hundred book-length projects and hundreds of short… Read more

Celebrating Our Elders: Interview with Paula Guran

• May 21, 2023
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Editor, anthologist, and reviewer Paula Guran has edited more than fifty science fiction, fantasy, and horror anthologies and more than fifty novels and collections featuring the same. She was senior… Read more

Celebrating Our Elders: Interview with Kathryn Ptacek

• May 19, 2023
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Kathryn Ptacek is the editor of the landmark Women of Darkness I and Women of Darkness II, published at a time when most anthologies included few or no women writers.… Read more

Asian Heritage in Horror: Interview with Bryan Thao Worra

• May 18, 2023
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Bryan Thao Worra is the author of 10+ books. One of the first Lao Americans to arrive in the US in 1973, and the first Lao American to hold a… Read more

Celebrating Our Elders: Interview with Nisi Shawl

• May 18, 2023
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Nisi Shawl’s debut novel Everfair, an alternate history of Africa’s Congo region, was a Nebula Award finalist. They’re the author of the Otherwise Award-winning story collection Filter House. They edited… Read more

Asian Heritage in Horror: Interview with Tracie McBride

• May 17, 2023
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What inspired you to start writing?

My origin story is probably a very familiar one to most writers. It started early in childhood with a love of books and a… Read more

Celebrating Our Elders: Interview with Stephen Gallagher

• May 17, 2023
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Stoker and World Fantasy Award nominee, winner of British Fantasy and International Horror Guild Awards for his short fiction, Stephen Gallagher has built a career both as a novelist and… Read more

Celebrating Our Elders: Interview with Terry Dowling

• May 16, 2023
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Terry Dowling is author of Basic Black: Tales of Appropriate Fear (International Horror Guild Award winner for Best Collection 2007), An Intimate Knowledge of the Night, Blackwater Days, Amberjack: Tales… Read more

Pacific Islander Heritage: Interview with Del Gibson

• May 16, 2023
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Del Gibson lives in Wellington, New Zealand. Gibson has had 26 short stories digitally published, as well as several articles and poems. When Gibson isn’t writing, she is researching and… Read more

Asian Heritage in Horror: Interview with L. Chan

• May 15, 2023
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L CHAN hails from Singapore. He spends most of his time wrangling a team of two dogs, Mr Luka and Mr Telly. His work has appeared in places like Clarkesworld,… Read more

Celebrating Our Elders: Interview with Ramsey Campbell

• May 15, 2023
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The Oxford Companion to English Literature describes Ramsey Campbell as “Britain’s most respected living horror writer,” and the Washington Post sums up his work as “one of the monumental accomplishments… Read more

Nuts & Bolts: Running a Small Press, with Publisher Robert Ottone

• May 15, 2023
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Nuts & Bolts: Running a Small Press, with Publisher Robert Ottone

By Tom Joyce In addition to being a publisher, Robert Ottone is a novelist, short-story writer, and Bram Stoker… Read more

Celebrating Our Elders: Interview with Yvonne Navarro

• May 14, 2023
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Yvonne Navarro is an award-winning author of twenty-four published novels and a lot of short stories, articles and a reference dictionary. She writes several genres but favors horror or dark… Read more

Asian Heritage in Horror: Interview with Maria Dong

• May 14, 2023
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Maria Dong is the author of Liar, Dreamer, Thief. Her short fiction, articles, and poetry have been published in dozens of magazines, like the Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy,… Read more

Asian Heritage in Horror: Interview with Dan Rabarts

• May 13, 2023
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Dan Rabarts (Ngati Porou) is an award-winning author and editor living in Porirua, Aotearoa New Zealand. He is a four-time recipient of New Zealand’s Sir Julius Vogel Award and three-time… Read more

Celebrating Our Elders: Interview with Stefan Dziemianowicz

• May 13, 2023
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Stefan Dziemianowicz has edited more than fifty anthologies of horror, fantasy, and science fiction, including the Bram-Stoker Award-winning (thanks, HWA!) Horrors: 365 Scary Stories. He is the author of the… Read more

Asian Heritage in Horror: Interview with Catherine Yu

• May 12, 2023
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Catherine Yu writes dark speculative fiction. She was born in Nanjing and is now based in New York. She is a graduate of Odyssey Writing Workshop. Direwood is her debut… Read more

Celebrating Our Elders: Interview with Stuart David Schiff

• May 12, 2023
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Stuart got his undergraduate degree from Cornell University (1968) and his D.D.S. from The Columbia School of Dental and Oral Surgery (1972). He spent 8 years in the Army that… Read more

Asian Heritage in Horror: Interview with Angela Liu

• May 11, 2023
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Angela Liu is a Chinese American writer from NYC. She studied East Asian Studies at New York University and researched mixed reality at Keio University’s Graduate School of Media Design… Read more

Celebrating Our Elders: Interview with Lucy Taylor

• May 11, 2023
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Lucy Taylor is the Stoker Award–winning author of seven novels and five short story collections. Her most recent work includes stories in Body Shocks (Tachyon) Horror Library, Volume 7 (Dark… Read more