Linda Addison is an American poet and writer of horror, fantasy, and science fiction. Addison is the first African-American winner of the Bram Stoker Award, which she won four times. The first two awards were for her poetry collections Consumed, Reduced to Beautiful Grey Ashes (2001) and Being Full of Light, Insubstantial (2007). Her poetry and fiction collection How To Recognize A Demon Has Become Your Friend won the 2011 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection. She received a fourth HWA Bram Stoker for the collection The Four Elements, written with Marge Simon, Rain Graves, and Charlee Jacob. Addison is a founding member of the CITH (Circles in the Hair) writing group. She received the HWA award for mentorship in 2016 and the HWA Lifetime Achievement Award in 2017. She is also intensely fashionable, has the best hairstyles and amazing ink.

Check out a new story by Addison in DARK VOICES: A Lycan Valley Charity Anthology for Breast Cancer, coming out July 2018 from LVP Publications!