Linda Addison

Linda D. Addison is the award-winning author of four collections, including How To Recognize A Demon Has Become Your Friend, and the first African-American recipient of the HWA Bram Stoker Award. In 2018 she received the HWA Lifetime Achievement Award.Addison has published over 300 poems, stories and articles. Her work has appeared in numerous publications, including Essence magazine, Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, and anthologies:¿The Beauty of Death (Independent Legions Publishing), Scary Out There (Simon Schuster) and Into Painfreak (Necro Publications). She co-edited Sycorax's Daughters, a HWA Bram Stoker-nominated anthology of fiction & poetry by African-American women (Cedar Grove Publishing, 2017) with Kinitra Brooks and Susana Morris.Addison's work has made frequent appearances over the years on the honorable mention list for Year's Best Fantasy and Horror and Year's Best Science Fiction. She is a founding member of the writer's group Circles in the Hair (CITH), and a member of HWA, SFWA and SFPA. Her site: www.lindaaddisonpoet.com.