Linda Addison (poet)

Linda D. Addison
Linda Addison in 2014
Born (1952-09-08) September 8, 1952 (age 71)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
EducationCarnegie Mellon University (BS)
OccupationWriter

Linda D. Addison (born September 8, 1952) is an American poet and writer of horror, fantasy, and science fiction. Addison is the first African-American winner of the Bram Stoker Award, which she won five times. The first two awards were for her poetry collections Consumed, Reduced to Beautiful Grey Ashes (2001)[1] and Being Full of Light, Insubstantial (2007).[2] Her poetry and fiction collection How To Recognize A Demon Has Become Your Friend won the 2011 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection.[3] She received a fourth HWA Bram Stoker for the collection The Four Elements, written with Marge Simon, Rain Graves, and Charlee Jacob. Her fifth HWA Bram Stoker was for the collection The Place of Broken Things, written with Alessandro Manzetti. Addison is a founding member of the CITH (Circles in the Hair) writing group.[4]

  1. ^ "2001 Bram Stoker Award Winners". Archived from the original on January 13, 2008. Retrieved July 15, 2008.
  2. ^ "2007 Bram Stoker Award Winners". Archived from the original on January 13, 2008. Retrieved July 15, 2008.
  3. ^ "2011 Bram Stoker Award Final Ballot". Necon Books. February 23, 2012.
  4. ^ "Linda Addison-Poet/Writer". Retrieved July 15, 2008.