Linda D Addison

Linda D. Addison is an award-winning African American poet and speculative fiction writer, best known as the first African American to receive the Bram Stoker Award for superior achievement in poetry. She has won the award six times and was honored with the Horror Writers Association's Lifetime Achievement Award in 2018, while also holding a B.S. in Mathematics from Carnegie Mellon University. Her work spans science fiction, fantasy, and horror, and she is a founding member of the writer's group Circles in the Hair.