Author

Angela Slatter is the author of five novels, The Path of Thorns, one of Oprah’s Daily Top 25 Fantasy Books of 2022. Her debut novel Vigil was longlisted for the 2018 Dublin Literary Award. She’s also written eleven short story collections, including The Bitterwood Bible and The Tallow-Wife and Other Tales, and three novellas. She’s won a World Fantasy Award, a British Fantasy Award, a Ditmar, two Australian Shadows Awards, and seven Aurealis Awards. Her work has been translated into multiple languages. She’s also the author of two chapbooks on the business of being a writer: You Are Not Your Writing & Other Sage Advice and What To Do When You Don’t Have A Book Coming Out & Even More Sage Advice (Brain Jar Press). 

Angela has an MA and a PhD in Creative Writing, teaches creative writing, and occasionally mentors new authors. She has collaborated with writer and artist Mike Mignola on a new series from Dark Horse Comics, Castle Full of Blackbirds, set in the Hellboy Universe, and screenwriter Victoria Madden (The Kettering Incident, The Gloaming) is making a film of Angela’s novelette “Finnegan’s Field”.

Angela has recently signed another two-book deal with Titan for the novels The Briar Book of the Dead (2023) and The Crimson Road (2024).

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