Photo credit: Emilia Blaser

Photo credit: Emilia Blaser

Vivian Shaw wears way too many earrings and likes edged weapons and expensive ink. She was born in Kenya and has lived in Cardiff, Oxford, and Baltimore. She has a BA in art history, an MFA in creative writing and publishing arts, and currently works as a professional freelance editor and proofreader. She writes about monsters, both in and out of classic horror literature; machines, extant and fantastical; disasters and their causes; and found family. She is the author of the Dr. Greta Helsing contemporary fantasy trilogy, STRANGE PRACTICE, DREADFUL COMPANY, and GRAVE IMPORTANCE (Orbit), and her sci-fi/horror novella THE HELIOS SYNDROME is out now from Lethe Press. She reviews for the Washington Post and her short sci-fi/horror fiction has appeared in Uncanny and Pseudopod.

(She also reads terrible vampire novels so you don’t have to.)

In her spare time she collects terrible vintage cookbooks and very nice fountain pens, and writes fanfiction (pen name: Coldhope). She lives in Santa Fe with her wife, the Hugo- and Locus-Award-winning author Arkady Martine.

 

Vivian is represented by Stephen Barbara of InkWell Management and Steve Fisher of APA. For all publicity requests, contact Ellen B. Wright, Associate Publicity Director, Orbit & Redhook, or use this online contact form.