S. P. Miskowski is an American horror writer and playwright.

Biography

S. P. Miskowski was born in

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. She later moved to Decatur, Georgia, and eventually settled in the Pacific Northwest. She attended the

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where she completed an MFA. She also was awarded two

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Fellowships and her works have been nominated for three

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s and a

Bram Stoker Award The Bram Stoker Award is a recognition presented annually by the Horror Writers Association (HWA) for "superior achievement" in dark fantasy and horror writing. History The Awards were established in 1987 and have been presented annually since ...

. Her novel ''I Wish I Was Like You'' was named ''This Is Horror 2017 Novel of the Year'' and won the 2017 Charles Dexter Award. In University Miskowski edited a

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. After college she spent about fifteen years writing plays and working as a teacher and editor. Her plays were produced in

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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

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