| Lee Murray | |
| Nationality: | New Zealand |
| Occupation: | Author, Editor |
| Notable Works: | Taine McKenna Adventures Series |
| Awards: | Bram Stoker, Sir Julius Vogel |
Lee Murray (born 1965) is a New Zealand science fiction, fantasy, and horror writer and editor.[1] She is a third generation Chinese New Zealander who has written over forty works.[2] She is a five-time winner of the Bram Stoker Award and a twelve-time winner of the Sir Julius Vogel Award. She is most noted for her Taine McKenna military thrillers, and supernatural crime-noir series The Path of Ra.[3] [4]
Murray was born in Putāruru, Waikato.[1] She previously worked as a scientist and an advisor for the OECD.[1] She is the co-founder of Young New Zealand Writers with Piper Mejia, an organization which has provided development and publishing opportunities for New Zealand school students.[1] [5] She suffers from anxiety and depression.[6] She currently lives in Tauranga.[7]
Her anthologies Hellhole: An Anthology of Subterranean Terror and Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women won the Bram Stoker Award for "Superior Achievement in an Anthology" in 2018 and 2020 respectively, while her collection Grotesque: Monster Stories won the "Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection " category in 2020. Other works have won the Australian Shadows and Sir Julius Vogel awards.[8] She was the winner of the 2019 Bram Stoker Mentor of the year award.[9] She is a professional member of the Horror Writers Association,[10] Australian Horror Writers Association,[11] and the New Zealand Society of Authors.[12] In 2020 she was awarded the New Zealand Society of Authors Honorary Literary Fellowship.[13] In 2021 she was awarded the Grimshaw Sargeson 2021 Fellowship.[14] She won the NZSA Laura Solomon Cuba Press Prize 2023 with her manuscript Fox Spirit on a Distant Cloud.[15] [16]
| Award | Year | Category | Recipient(s) | Result | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bram Stoker | 2018 | Superior Achievement in Short Fiction | "Dead End Town" | Nominee | [17] | |
| Bram Stoker | 2019 | Superior Achievement in a Novel | Into the Ashes | Nominee | [18] | |
| Bram Stoker | 2020 | Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection | Grotesque: Monster Stories (Things in the Well) | Winner | [19] | |
| Bram Stoker | 2021 | Superior Achievement in Short Fiction | Permanent Damage | Winner | [20] | |
| Bram Stoker | 2021 | Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection | Tortured Willows: Bent. Bowed. Unbroken' by Christina Sng, Angela Yuriko Smith, Lee Murray & Geneve Flynn | Winner | [21] | |
| Bram Stoker | 2022 | Superior Achievement in Short Non-Fiction | I Don’t Read Horror (& Other Weird Tales) | Winner | [22] | |
| Sir Julius Vogel | 2012 | Best Youth Novel | Battle of the Birds | Winner | ||
| Sir Julius Vogel | 2013 | Best Short Story | Hope is the thing with feathers | Winner | ||
| Sir Julius Vogel | 2014 | Best Novella | Cave Fever | Winner | ||
| Sir Julius Vogel | 2015 | Best Short Story | Inside Ferndale | Winner | [23] | |
| Sir Julius Vogel | 2016 | Best Short Story | The Thief's Tale | Winner | ||
| Sir Julius Vogel | 2017 | Best Novel: Into the Mist | Into the Mist | Winner | ||
| Sir Julius Vogel | 2017 | Services To Science Fiction, Fantasy And Horror | Winner | |||
| Sir Julius Vogel | 2018 | Best Novel | Hounds of the Underworld | Winner | ||
| Sir Julius Vogel | 2019 | Best Novel | Into the Sounds | Winner |
| Award | Year | Category | Recipient(s) | Result | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bram Stoker | 2018 | Superior Achievement in an Anthology | Hellhole: An Anthology of Subterranean Terror | Nominee | ||
| Bram Stoker | 2020 | Superior Achievement in an Anthology | Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women | Winner | ||
| Sir Julius Vogel | 2014 | Best Collected Work | Baby Teeth: Bite-sized Tales of Terror | Winner | ||
| Sir Julius Vogel | 2017 | Best Collected Work | At the Edge | Winner | ||
| Australian Shadow | 2018 | Edited Work | Hellhole: An Anthology of Subterranean Terror | Winner | ||
| Aurealis | 2020 | Best Anthology | Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women | Nominee | [24] [25] | |
| Australian Shadow | 2020 | Edited Work | Midnight Echo #15 | Winner | [26] |
| Contributor | 2016 | The Refuge Collection Book 1: Heaven to Some | |
| Editor | 2017 | Hellhole: An Anthology of Subterranean Terror | |
| Contributor | 2018 | Beneath the Waves: Tales from the Deep (4) (Things in the Well) | |
| Editor | 2020 | Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women | |
| Editor | 2013 | Baby Teeth: Bite-sized Tales of Terror | |
| Contributor | 2019 | HWA Poetry Showcase Volume VI |