Linda D. Addison grew up in Philadelphia and began weaving stories at an early age. Ms. Addison is the first African-American recipient of the world renowned HWA Bram Stoker Award® and has received five awards for collections: The Place of Broken Things written with Alessandro Manzetti; Four Elements written with Charlee Jacob, Marge Simon and Rain Graves; How To Recognize A Demon Has Become Your Friend short stories and poetry; Being Full of Light, Insubstantial; Consumed, Reduced to Beautiful Grey Ashes. In 2018, she received the HWA Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2020, Addison was designated SFPA Grand Master of Fantastic Poetry. Dark Duet, a collaborative book of poetry written with Stephen M. Wilson was a HWA Bram Stoker finalist. She co-edited Sycorax’s Daughters, an anthology of horror fiction & poetry by African-American women with Kinitra Brooks PhD and Susana Morris PhD, which was a HWA Bram Stoker finalist in the Anthology category.
She is the only author with fiction in three landmark anthologies that celebrate African-Americans speculative writers: the award-winning anthology Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction (Warner Aspect), Dark Dreams I and II (Kensington), and Dark Thirst (Pocket Book).
Her work has made frequent appearances over the years on the honorable mention list for Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror and Year’s Best Science-Fiction and has published over 360 poems, stories and articles. She has work in numerous publications, including Essence magazine, Asimov’s Science Fiction magazine, Weird Tales magazine #364, Miscreations anthology, Don’t Turn Out the Lights anthology and The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. Look for her story in the Black Panther: Tales of Wakanda anthology (Titan/Marvel).
