Livia Llewellyn is an American short story horror writer from

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Biography

Livia Llewellyn was born in

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, Alaska. She spent time working for Tor in New York and works as a secretary. She also worked as a theatre actor for twenty years. Llewellyn is best known as a short story writer and has had her work published in magazines including

Subterranean Press Subterranean Press is a small press publisher in Burton, Michigan. Subterranean is best known for publishing genre fiction, primarily horror, suspense and dark mystery, fantasy, and science fiction. In addition to publishing novels, short stor ...

Apex Magazine ''Apex Magazine'', also previously known as ''Apex Digest'', is an American horror and science fiction magazine. This subscription webzine, ''Apex Magazine'', contains short fiction, reviews, and interviews. It has been nominated for several awa ...

and ''The Magazine of Bizarro Fiction'', as well as anthologies like

Ellen Datlow Ellen Datlow (born December 31, 1949) is an American science fiction, fantasy, and horror editor and anthologist. She is a winner of the World Fantasy Award and the Bram Stoker Award (Horror Writers Association). Career Datlow began her career ...

’s ''The Best Horror of the Year'' series. In 2011, ''Engines of Desire: Tales of Love & Other Horrors'' was nominated for the

Shirley Jackson Award The Shirley Jackson Awards are literary awards named after Shirley Jackson in recognition of her legacy in writing. These awards for outstanding achievement in the literature of psychological suspense, horror and the dark fantastic are presented ...

for Best Collection while ''Omphalos'' was nominated for the Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novelette. Llewellyn's story ''Furnace'' was nominated in 2013 for a Shirley Jackson Award for Best Short Story. Her work is translated into Italian. Llewellyn won the 2020

Edgar Allan Poe Award The Edgar Allan Poe Awards, popularly called the Edgars, are presented every year by the Mystery Writers of America, based in New York City. Named after American writer Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849), a pioneer in the genre, the awards honor the bes ...

for best short story with "One of These Nights," from ''Cutting Edge: New Stories of Mystery and Crime by Women Writers''.

Bibliography

;Collections *Engines of Desire: Tales of Love & Other Horrors (2011) *Furnace (2016) ;Short Fiction *Brimstone Orange (2005) *At the Edge of Ellensburg (2006) *Jetsam (2007) *The Unattainable (2007) *The Four Hundred Thousand (2007) *The Foraging (2008) *Teslated Salishan Evergreen (2008) *The Engine of Desire (2008) *Horses (2009) *Panopticon (2010) *Omphalos (2011) *Summer of Love (2011) *And Love Shall Have No Dominion (2011) *Lord of the Hunt (2012) *The Girls of the World (2012) *Cinereous (2013) *Stabilimentum (2013) *Wasp & Snake (2013) *Furnace (2013) *Yours Is the Right to Begin (2013) *The Mysteries (2014) *It Feels Better Biting Down (2014) *The Last, Clean, Bright Summer (2014) *Allochthon (2014) *Pureland (2015) *The One That Comes Before (2015) *In the Court of King Cupressaceae, 1982 (2016) *Bright Crown of Joy (2016) *The Low, Dark Edge of Life (2016) *The Acid Test (2017) *The Hotel Pelagornis, 1899 (2017) *The Gin House, 1935 (2017) ;Poems *Silver Night Train (2012) *The God of Suburbia (2012)

References and sources

{{DEFAULTSORT:Llewellyn, Livia Year of birth missing (living people) People from Anchorage, Alaska 21st-century American women writers Living people American horror writers