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Short bio:

Wendy N. Wagner’s longer works include the forthcoming Girl in the Creek (Tor Nightfire, 2025), The Secret Skin, The Deer Kings and An Oath of Dogs. Her more than seventy published pieces of short fiction, essays, and poetry range from horror to environmental literature, and has been nominated for both the Pushcart and the Shirley Jackson awards. The Locus award-nominated editor-in-chief of Nightmare Magazine, Wagner lives, works, and hikes in the Pacific Northwest. Keep up with her at winniewoohoo.com.

Long bio:

Wendy N. Wagner grew up in a remote town on the Oregon coast, a place so small it had no grocery store and no television reception. When the bookmobile came every two weeks, the whole town gathered to explore its latest offerings. Books were her lifeline, her window into the outside world, and soon, an obsession.

After graduating college with a degree in philosophy, Wendy has worked as a pizza cook, a sheet music salesperson, a house cleaner, a youth garden educator, and as a birthday party entertainer. She is currently the Editor in Chief of Nightmare Magazine as well as the Managing/Senior Editor of Lightspeed. She has been nominated for a Locus Award for Best Editor and has a Hugo for Lightspeed‘s 2015 Best Semiprozine win.

Her fifth novel, Girl in the Creek, is due out early 2025 from Tor Nightfire. Previous work includes the gothic novella The Secret Skin (one of the Washington Post‘s best SF/F/H books of 2021), the horror novel The Deer Kings, and the SF eco-thriller An Oath of Dogs. Her short fiction, essays, and poems have appeared in over seventy venues. Her story “Halogen Sky” was a Shirley Jackson award-nominee.

Wendy lives on the edge of Portland, Oregon, with her very understanding family, two large cats, and a Muppet disguised as a dog. You can keep up her at winniewoohoo.com or find her on Twitter, where she’s @wnwagner.

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