She has also taught writing workshops and mentored newer writers. It went on to win all three of the Australian genre awards, while The Grief Hole did the same thing in 2017. Her novella “Sky” from that collection won the Shirley Jackson Award and was shortlisted for the World Fantasy Award. Kaaron Warren is an Australian author whose work extends through four novels ( Slights, Walking the Tree, Mistification, and The Grief Hole) and six short story collections, including the multi-award winning Through Splintered Walls. She was a Guest of Honor at StokerCon 2017, and she travels throughout the year talking to librarians about broadening their horror collections. She is the author of the American Library Association’s Reader’s Advisory Guide to Horror (published in a second edition in 2012), and maintains the acclaimed blog RA for All: Horror at, as well as the original RA for All blog at. She also teaches English at Glendale Community College.īecky Spratford is the public library world’s most visible horror expert. Forthcoming in 2019 is her novel Dark Carnival, and a middle grade tale in New Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. Joanna Parypinski made her first professional sale in 2011, and her short fiction has since appeared in the magazines Nightmare, Black Static, and Vastarien, and anthologies including Haunted Nights, The Beauty of Death 2: Death by Water, and The War on Christmas. She is a recipient of the Horror Writers Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award, and is the only author with fiction in three landmark anthologies that celebrate African-American speculative writers: the award-winning anthology Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction, Dark Dreams I and II, and Dark Thirst.

Linda Addison is an accomplished short story writer and editor, but she is probably known primarily as a poet. Given how the genre seems to be expanding rapidly to include more women at all levels of experience and publishing, I tried to gather a group of women with a range of talents and experience. To celebrate Women in Horror Month 2019, I asked four excellent female writers and horror experts to join me for a roundtable discussion.

F4 by Larissa Glasser