About

Gwendolyn Kiste is the four-time Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The Rust Maidens, Reluctant Immortals, The Haunting of Velkwood, And Her Smile Will Untether the Universe, Pretty Marys All in a Row, The Invention of Ghosts, and Boneset & Feathers. Her short fiction and nonfiction have appeared in outlets including Lit Hub, Nightmare, Tor Nightfire, Titan Books, Vastarien, Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, and The Dark among others. She's a Lambda Literary Award winner, and her fiction has also received the This Is Horror award for Novel of the Year as well as nominations for the Premios Kelvin, Ignotus, and Dragon Awards.
Originally from Ohio, she now resides on an abandoned horse farm outside of Pittsburgh with her husband, their calico cat, and not nearly enough ghosts. You can also find her online at Facebook and Instagram.
Recent Interviews, Spotlights, and Guest Posts
Featured on The Scares That Shaped Us, discussing The Twilight Zone episode, "The Masks"
Featured at Capes and Tights' "I Am a Woman in Horror: Finding Home in the Horrific"
Featured on Uncomfortably Dark's "Women in Horror: Quiet Horror Edition"
At Cemetery Dance, discussing The Haunting of Velkwood with Haley Newlin
At Shortwave Magazine, discussing the work of Shirley Jackson with Patrick Barb
At Cemetery Dance, discussing The Haunting of Velkwood as part of Daniel Braum's Night Time Logic column
On This Is Horror, discussing queerness in horror, editing, and The Haunting of Velkwood
On The Murder Coaster, discussing the intersection of crime and horror in the anthology Howls from the Scene of the Crime
On Moths to the Flame, discussing mother-themed horror in the anthology Mother Knows Best
On She Wore Black, discussing the gothic and stasis, the horror of youth, writing women across the lifespan, and The Haunting of Velkwood
On The Monster, She Wrote Podcast, discussing inspiration, writing process and The Haunting of Velkwood
On Narrative Species, discussing ghosts, writing and The Haunting of Velkwood
On Staring Into the Abyss, discussing grief, ghosts, horror and The Haunting of Velkwood
At Hungry Shadows Press, discussing slashers, Final Girls, and the anthology, It Was All a Dream 2
On the Lovecraft eZine, discussing horror, trauma, and The Haunting of Velkwood
On Night Time Logic, discussing ghosts, horror, and The Haunting of Velkwood with Daniel Braum
Queer Horror Across Time event at Charis Books with Lee Mandelo
"Q&A: Gwendolyn Kiste, Author of 'The Haunting of Velkwood'" at The Nerd Daily
At Fangoria, discussing identity, ghosts, and The Haunting of Velkwood with Leticia Lopez
At Ginger Nuts of Horror, discussing Women in Horror Month and The Haunting of Velkwood
On Talking Scared, Episode 183: Gwendolyn Kiste & Working Through Your Ghosts
On the Kirkwood Public Library podcast, discussing books, horror, and The Haunting of Velkwood
On The Ghostly Gallery, discussing Universal Horror, Hammer films, David Cronenberg, body horror, ghosts, and The Haunting of Velkwood
On Sley House Presents, discussing ghosts, identity, bisexuality, and The Haunting of Velkwood
At The Campaign for the American Reader, discussing titles, influences, characters, and The Haunting of Velkwood
At Paul Semel's site, discussing inspiration, suburban landscapes, and The Haunting of Velkwood
At The Page 69 Test, discussing The Haunting of Velkwood
At Postcards from the Falls, discussing horror, favorite books, and The Haunting of Velkwood
On Dead Headspace, discussing ghosts, LGBTQ+ stories, and The Haunting of Velkwood
On Horror from the High Desert, discussing horror, The Haunting of Velkwood, ghosts, and Picnic at Hanging Rock
At Rue Morgue, discussing The Haunting of Velkwood, women in horror, and LGBTQ+ representation, with Lindy Ryan
On This Is Horror, discussing The Haunting of Velkwood, novel writing, and persistence
On Silver Screen Time Machine, discussing the 1961 classic film, The Misfits, with host Wendy White
On Raul Reads, discussing October Screams along with other featured authors from the Halloween-themed anthology
On the Lovecraft eZine's "What I'm Reading" feature
On The Murder Coaster podcast's episode "Bonus: Horror Writers on Werewolves"
On the Lovecraft eZine podcast, discussing the Back 2 OmniPark anthology
On The Story Hour, reading "The Girls from the Horror Movie"
On Evil in the Stacks, discussing women in horror, Reluctant Immortals, and trauma in the horror genre with Geneveive Newman
At Monster Complex, discussiong Reluctant Immortals, writing advice, and favorite things about horror with Will Christopher
"Gwendolyn Kiste Plunges a Silver Dagger Into the Heart of Female Stereotypes in Reluctant Immortals" with Leticia Lopez at The Lineup
"Immortality, the 1960s, and the Power of Women's Voices" with Andrea Blythe at Interstellar Flight Press
For a full list of interviews and features, please browse the pages below!

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Boneset & Feathers

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Pretty Marys All in a Row

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