How to Recognize a Demon Has Become Your Friend by Linda Addison

Her collection, Consumed, Reduced to Beautiful Grey Ashes, was also nominated for the Black Writers Alliance Gold Pen Award.

Other prominent recipients of this distinguished award include authors, Alice Sebold (Lovely Bones) and J.K. Wilson was a 2012 HWA Bram Stoker finalist. Dark Duet (Necon E-Books), a collaborative book of poetry written with Stephen M. She has received three additional awards for her collections: The Four Elements written with Marge Simon, Rain Graves and Charlee Jacob (2013 Bad Moon Books) How To Recognize A Demon Has Become Your Friend short stories and poetry collection (2011 Necon E-Books) and Being Full of Light, Insubstantial (2007 Space & Time Books). In 2001, Addison was the first African-American to win the HWA’s Bram Stoker Award(R) for superior achievement in poetry for Consumed, Reduced to Beautiful Grey Ashes (Space & Time Books). Her work has made frequent appearances over the years on the honorable mention list for Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror (edited by Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link and Gavin Grant) and Year’s Best Science-Fiction (edited by Gardner Dozois). She is poetry editor for Space & Time magazine.

Linda is a founding member of a writing group, Circles In The Hair (CITH) which started meeting in 1990. in Mathematics and currently lives in Arizona. She graduated from Carnegie-Mellon University with a B.S. She even now finds cruising a bookstore is as relaxing as drinking a fine glass of wine. Addison knew she wanted to make one of her own. Her childhood memories include evenings listening to her mother tell stories she created using the children as characters or watching scary movies with her mother at night.įrom the first moment she held a book in her hands in kindergarten Ms. Linda is the second oldest of ten children and grew up in Philadelphia where she graduated from Germantown High School.

How to Recognize a Demon Has Become Your Friend by Linda Addison