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

Featuring links to news, reviews, and interviews with the award-winning poet and writer of horror, fantasy, and science fiction.

“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.

More about Linda D. Addison online

• Amazon author page

• Author website

• Goodreads

• Monster Complex articles

Related links on Monster Complex:

• Interview: Poetic Voices of Horror: Award Winning Poet Linda D. Addison

• Writing Tips from 31 Horror Authors

• Panel: Black Women Who Write Dark Fiction and Poetry [Video]

• Laugh Or Scream: 50+ Comedy Horror Books

• ‘Classic Monsters Unleashed’ by Jonathan Maberry, Seanan McGuire, Owl Goingback, and more

• Black Panther: Tales of Wakanda—a ground-breaking anthology with stories from amazing authors

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13 Links to news, reviews, and interviews with Linda D. Addison

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1. Celebrating Our Elders: An Introduction by Linda D. Addison  (Horror Writers Association)

2. 25 Must-Read Horror Collections and Anthologies  (Book Riot)

3. Hex Publishers to Expand the Unioverse with Tie-In Anthology and Comic Book Series  (Business Wire)

4. 9 Black Mermaid Books  (The Mary Sue)

5. The Audie Awards' 2023 Finalists: 26 Categories  (Publishing Perspectives)

6. Classic Monsters Unleashed: Exclusive cover and contents reveal for monster anthology  (SciFiNow)

7. Interview: Linda D. Addison  (Nightmare Magazine)

8. Linda Addison author info including a bio, photo, published books, video, book reviews and more. (African American Literature Book Club)

9. Safe Havens—WFC Award 2018 Ceremony Toastmaster Speech (Uncanny Magazine)

10. A Conversation with Linda D. Addison | Global Studies Center (University of Pittsburgh)

11. Women in Horror Interview: Linda Addison (Weird Little Worlds)

12. A Conversation with Linda D. Addison (LibCal)

13. Linda D. Addison — Madness & Writers: The Untold Truth. Maybe? (Madness & Writers)

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