Knock Knock
MissMisk
- Location
- U.S.
- Birthday
- April 03
- Title
- fiction writer
- Bio
- Author of the Shirley Jackson Award-nominated novel KNOCK KNOCK (published by Omnium Gatherum Media) and the story collection RED POPPIES: 7 TALES OF ENVY & REVENGE. My short stories have been published in Supernatural Tales 21, Horror Bound Online Magazine, Identity Theory, Other Voices, The Absent Willow Review, and in the anthology DETRITUS. I am a member of the speculative fiction group Wily Writers.
As an undergraduate I won two Swarthout prizes for short stories and edited a quarterly fiction magazine. I earned a Master of Fine Arts at the University of Washington and received two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, for short fiction and drama. One of my scripts, "my new friends (are so much better than you)" was nominated for a Steinberg/ American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award in 2009.
MY RECENT POSTS
- My Novel Nominated for Shirley
Jackson Award
April 24, 2012 03:01PM - Listen to My First Chapter for
Free
April 16, 2012 01:43PM - Today My Novel is Published
December 20, 2011 06:12PM - Why I Wrote a Horror Novel
August 31, 2011 02:38PM - Fur
December 04, 2009 03:38AM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “I love Shirley Jackson's
work, too. I'm
thrilled!”
May 02, 2012 03:01PM - “I agree. Shirley
Jackson's writing is so
marvelously creepy
and yet
modern. It's…”
April 25, 2012 08:03PM - “Thanks very much. I hope
the book is fun--and
creepy!”
April 24, 2012 07:36PM - “Thanks, OS writers. You
are very
kind.
Writing fiction
is a crazy thing to do.
Its…”
December 20, 2011 09:26PM - “Thanks, Random Rain. I
hope the novel is creepy fun.
You can
read the first
chapt…”
September 05, 2011 04:02PM
My Novel Nominated for Shirley Jackson Award
I'm happy to announce that my supernatural horror novel Knock Knock is a nominee for the 2011 Shirley Jackson Awards. Congratulations to all of this year's nominees!
Take a look. It's a great list, and I feel honored to be included.
This book was both a challenge and a joy to… Read full post »
Listen to My First Chapter for Free
A while back I posted about my reasons for writing a horror novel, and I announced the publication of Knock Knock by Omnium Gatherum Media. Now you can listen to the first chapter of the novel:
It's a free and easy way to decide… Read full post »
Today My Novel is Published
Happy December 20th! Today my novel is available, published by Omnium Gatherum.
Knock Knock is the tale of three girlfriends growing up in the backwater of Skillute, Washington. Their neighbors and families are petty or poor or both; but when these townies warn the girls not to wander… Read full post »
Fur
Fleas were a part of the job she hated. But Mary accepted the fleas, as she accepted many things nowadays, with a shrug: A necessary evil, what could be done about it? Fleas occupied the fur on so many of the dogs she groomed, the fat, lazy dogs of clients who… Read full post »
Small Man Syndrome
Of course Fred, her fiancé suggested driving her to work for a few days. But that seemed silly. Besides, Chickie knew Fred was there if she needed him. He was working, but if she sent him a text message he could call somebody who could reach Chickie in five minutes: a… Read full post »
So You Want To Be A Writer
I have always loved the hilarious, classic Kurt Vonnegut essay about writing conferences Teaching the Unteachable. It contains one of my favorite Vonnegut quotes, which I have paraphrased for years:
"The idea of a conference for prose writers is an absurdity. They don't confer, can't confer. It's all… Read full post »
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