Priya Sharma (born 30 December 1971) is a British fantasy and horror short-story writer and novelist. Her short story ''Fabulous Beasts'' won the 2016

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for Best Short Fiction, her debut collection ''All the Fabulous Beasts'' won the 2018

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and the 2019 British Fantasy Award for Best Collection, and her debut novella ''Ormeshadow'' won the 2019 Shirley Jackson Award and the 2020 British Fantasy Award for Best Novella.2019 Shirley Jackson Awards Winners
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Personal life

Sharma was born and grew up in the North-West of England. She gained a

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at medical school and works full-time as a general practitioner on the Wirral.

Works

Novella

* ''Ormeshadow'', 2019,

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Collections

* ''All the Fabulous Beasts'', 2018, Undertow Publications:

Stories

* ''In the Garden'', 2005 * ''Sweetpea'', 2005 * ''Screaming Purple Psychosis'', 2006 * ''The Englishman'', 2006 * ''The Lady, Eve'', 2007 * ''The Last Man in Africa'', 2009 * ''The Indifferent Stars'', 2009 * ''The Soul of Stones'', 2009 *
The Nature of Bees
', 2010 * ''The Bitterness of Apples'', 2010 * ''The Show'', 2011 * ''The Virgin's Tears'', 2011 *
Lebkuchen
', 2011 * ''The Fox Maiden'', 2011 * ''The Orchid Hunters'', 2011 * ''Fish Skins'', 2012 *
Pearls
', 2012 *
The Ballad of Boomtown
', 2012 * ''Needlepoint'', 2012 * ''Lady Dragon and the Netsuke Carver'', 2012 *
Rag and Bone
', 2013, tor.com * ''Thesea and Astaurius'', 2013 * ''After Mary'', 2013 *
Egg
', 2013 * ''The Sunflower Seed Man'', 2013 *
The Anatomist's Mnemonic
', 2013 * ''The Rising Tide'', 2014 * ''The Firebrand'', 2014 *
The Absent Shade
', 2015 * ''The Red Vortex'', 2015 *
Fabulous Beasts
', 2015, tor.com *
Blonde
', 2015 * ''Grave Goods'', 2016 * ''Inheritance, or The Ruby Tear'', 2016 *
The Crow Palace
', 2017 * ''Mercury'', 2017 * ''A Son of the Sea'', 2018 * ''Small Town Stories'', 2018 * ''Maw'', 2018

References

External links

Priya Sharma Fiction
author blog *
Priya Sharma
at

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