Upgrade to a better browser, please.
Angela Slatter
| Full Name: |
Angela
Slatter |
| Born: |
Australia |
| Occupation: |
Writer |
| Nationality: |
Australian |
| Links: |
|
Biography
Specialising in dark fantasy and horror, Angela Slatter is the author of The Girl with No Hands and Other Tales, Sourdough and Other Stories, The Bitterwood Bible and Other Recountings, and Black-Winged Angels, as well as Midnight and Moonshine and The Female Factory (both with Lisa L. Hannett). She has won five Aurealis Awards, one British Fantasy Award, been a finalist for the Norma K. Hemming Award, and a finalist the World Fantasy Award twice (for Sourdough and Bitterwood).
Angela's short stories have appeared in Australian, UK and US Best Of anthologies such The Mammoth Book of New Horror (Stephen Jones, ed.), The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror (Paula Guran, ed.), The Best Horror of the Year (Ellen Datlow, ed.), The Year's Best Australian Fantasy and Horror (Liz Grzyb and Talie Helene, eds.), and The Year's Best YA Speculative Fiction (Alisa Krasnostein and Julia Rios, eds.).
She has an MA and a PhD in Creative Writing, is a graduate of Clarion South 2009 and the Tin House Summer Writers Workshop 2006, and in 2013 she was awarded one of the inaugural Queensland Writers Fellowships.
Her novellas, Of Sorrow and Such (from Tor.com), and Ripper (in the Stephen Jones anthology Horrorology, from Jo Fletcher Books) will be released in October 2015.
Angela's urban fantasy novel, Vigil (based on the short story "Brisneyland by Night"), will be released by Jo Fletcher Books in 2016, and the sequel, Corpselight, in 2017. She is represented by Ian Drury of the literary agency Sheil Land.
Photo by David Pollitt
Works in the WWEnd Database
Full Details
