S. P. Miskowski is an American horror writer and playwright.
Biography
S. P. Miskowski was born in
Decatur, Georgia
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. She later moved to the west coast of the US, including Washington and California though she now lives in Canada.
She attended the
University of Washington
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Founded in 1861, Washington is one of the oldest universities on the West Coast; it was established in Seattle a ...
where she completed an MFA. She also was awarded two
National Endowment for the Arts
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Fellowships and her works have been nominated for three
Shirley Jackson Awards and a
Bram Stoker Award. Her second novel was named ''This Is Horror 2017 Novel of the Year'' and won the 2017
Charles Dexter Award
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. In University Miskowski edited a small press and learned what she liked from that. After college Miskowski spent about fifteen years writing plays and working as a teacher and editor. Her plays were produced in
Seattle
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but in 2010 she began to write short stories. These have been published by Supernatural Tales, Horror Bound Magazine, Identity Theory, New Times and Fine Madness.
Bibliography
Skillute Cycle
* Knock Knock (2011)
* Delphine Dodd (2012)
* Astoria (2013)
* In the Light (2014)
* The Worst Is Yet to Come (2019)
* The Best of Both Worlds (2020)
Novels
* Knock Knock (2011)
*I Wish I Was Like You (2017)
*The Worst Is Yet to Come (2019)
Collections
* Red Poppies: 7 Tales of Envy & Revenge (2009)
* Strange Is the Night (2017)
As editor
* Little Visible Delight (2013) with Kate Jonez
Short fiction
* Fur (1988)
* A.G.A. (2012)
* This Many (2013)
* Strange Is the Night (2015)
* The Second Floor (2015)
* Death and Disbursement (2015)
* Lost and Found (2016)
* Stag in Flight (2016)
* Water Main (2016)
* Muscadines (2016)
* Somnambule (2016)
* Patio Wing Monsters (2017)
* Vigilance. Sacrifice. (2017)
* 140 x 76 (A Tour of Griffith Park) (2017)
* Alligator Point (2017)
* Asking Price (2017)
* We're Never Inviting Amber Again (2017)
* A Condition for Marriage (2017)
* Animal House (2017)
* Ms. X Regrets Everything (2017)
* Pins (2017)
* Legends of Claudia (2018)
References and sources
Year of birth missing (living people)
University of Washington alumni
21st-century American women writers
American women dramatists and playwrights
Writers from Georgia (U.S. state)
American women short story writers
American editors
Living people
21st-century American dramatists and playwrights
21st-century American short story writers
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