13 Updates Linda D. Addison—horror poet and author of ‘The Place of Broken Things’

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“I’m often looking for a different perspective on fear,” Addison says, “while opening my own fear/pain as roots to feed what I’m writing.”

Linda D. Addison is a poet and writer of horror, fantasy, and science fiction. She is the first African-American winner of the Bram Stoker Award—which she has won multiple times.

Addison grew up in Philadelphia and began writing at an early age. “When I started writing, I wrote just kind of weird poetry,” she told Monster Complex. “I wrote weird stuff, because I liked the sense of it more than reality. The world around me when I was growing up wasn’t as interesting as what I could make it.”

Her books include How To Recognize A Demon Has Become Your Friend, a collection of horror and science fiction short stories and poetry; The Place of Broken Things, a Bram Stoker Award-winning collection of dark, surrealistic poetry from Addison and Alessandro Manzetti; Consumed, Reduced to Beautiful Grey Ashes, a Bram Stoker Award-winning poetry collection; and Animated Objects, a collection of science fiction, fantasy and horror poetry and short stories.

Addison has also contributed to such collections as Sycorax’s Daughters, a scary anthology featuring 28 dark stories and 14 poems written by African-American women writers; Dark Thirst, a haunting anthology of vampire fiction from some of the most popular African-American writers; Black Panther: Tales of Wakanda, a ground-breaking prose anthology celebrating Marvel’s beloved Black Panther and his home country; and the chilling Don’t Turn Out the Lights: A Tribute to Alvin Schwartz’s Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, a middle grade horror anthology.

In 2018, Addison received the Horror Writer Association Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2020, Addison was designated Science Fiction Poetry Association Grand Master of Fantastic Poetry.

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