Ep 03: Poetic Voices of Horror: Award Winning Poet Linda D. Addison
Linda D. Addison is a poet and writer of horror, fantasy, and science fiction. She’s also the first African-American winner of the Bram Stoker Award, presented by the Horror Writers Association. In fact, she has won the Bram Stoker Award multiple times, including a Lifetime Achievement Award.
Her most recent book—and for that matter, most recent Bram Stoker Award-winner—is The Place of Broken Things, a poetry collection she worked on with collaborator Alessandro Manzetti. The Place of Broken Things includes poems of visionary imagery encompassing death, gods, goddesses and shadowy, Kafkaesque futures.
In this interview, Linda and I talk about some starting points to find great speculative and horror poetry, how winning so many awards impacts an author, she offers some perspective on the state of diversity in horror publishing, and she has advice for poets hoping to break in.
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