S. P. Miskowski Explained

S. P. Miskowski
Birth Place:	Decatur, Georgia, U.S.
Nationality:	American
Education:	University of Washington (MFA)

S. P. Miskowski is an American horror writer and playwright.

Biography

S. P. Miskowski was born in Decatur, Georgia. She later moved to the west coast of the US, including Washington and California though she now lives in Canada.^[1] She attended the University of Washington where she completed an MFA. She also was awarded two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships and her works have been nominated for three Shirley Jackson Awards and a Bram Stoker Award. Her novel I Wish I Was Like You was named This Is Horror 2017 Novel of the Year and won the 2017 Charles Dexter Award.^[2]

In University Miskowski edited a small press. After college she spent about fifteen years writing plays and working as a teacher and editor. Her plays were produced in Seattle but in 2010 she began to write short stories. These have been published by Supernatural Tales, Horror Bound Magazine, Identity Theory, New Times and Fine Madness.^{[3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10]}

Bibliography

Skillute Cycle

• Knock Knock (2011)
• Delphine Dodd (2012)
• Astoria (2013)
• In the Light (2014)
• The Worst Is Yet to Come (2019)
• The Best of Both Worlds (2020)

Novels

• Knock Knock (2011)
• I Wish I Was Like You (2017)
• The Worst Is Yet to Come (2019)

Collections

• Red Poppies: 7 Tales of Envy & Revenge (2009)
• Strange Is the Night (2017)

As editor

• Little Visible Delight (2013) with Kate Jonez

Short fiction

• Fur (1988)
• A.G.A. (2012)
• This Many (2013)
• Strange Is the Night (2015)
• The Second Floor (2015)
• Death and Disbursement (2015)
• Lost and Found (2016)
• Stag in Flight (2016)
• Water Main (2016)
• Muscadines (2016)
• Somnambule (2016)
• Patio Wing Monsters (2017)
• Vigilance. Sacrifice. (2017)
• 140 x 76 (A Tour of Griffith Park) (2017)
• Alligator Point (2017)
• Asking Price (2017)
• We're Never Inviting Amber Again (2017)
• A Condition for Marriage (2017)
• Animal House (2017)
• Ms. X Regrets Everything (2017)
• Pins (2017)
• Legends of Claudia (2018)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Horror Tree Presents … An Interview with S.P. Miskowski. 2020-02-22. Horror Tree. Green. Lionel Ray. 22 February 2020 .
2. Web site: 2018-04-19 . This Is Horror Awards 2017: The Winners . 2024-01-14 . This Is Horror . en-GB.
3. Web site: Interview: S. P. Miskowski . Nightmare Magazine . 24 January 2018 . 2020-02-06.
4. Web site: Publishers . Hex . Hex Publishers: Horror Without Apology: A Conversation with S. P. Miskowski . Hex Publishers . 2020-02-06.
5. Web site: S. P. Miskowski . LitReactor . 2020-02-06.
6. Web site: Why I Wrote … The Worst Is Yet to Come by S. P. Miskowski – This Is Horror . This Is Horror – The Voice of Horror . 2019-10-11 . 2020-02-06.
7. Web site: S. P. Miskowski . H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival & CthulhuCon . 2015-03-26 . 2020-02-06.
8. Web site: John Langan Reviews I Wish I Was Like You by S. P. Miskowski . Locus Online – The Magazine of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Field . 2017-12-19 . 2020-02-06.
9. Web site: Fiction Book Review: Strange Is the Night by S. P. Miskowski. JournalStone, $16.95 trade paper (252p) ISBN 978-1-945373-74-9 . PublishersWeekly.com . 2017-08-25 . 2020-02-06.
10. Web site: The Shirley Jackson Awards » Charles Tan Interviews S. P. Miskowski . The Shirley Jackson Awards . 2012-07-12 . 2020-02-06.