Angela Yuriko Smith
Angela Yuriko Smith is a Ryukyuan-American (also described as Shimanchu-American) writer and publisher. Her publishing house is named Yuriko, which was her grandmother's given name.[1] She has won two Bram Stoker Awards.[2]
As of 2025[update] she is president of the international Horror Writers Association.[3]
Writing
[edit | edit source]Smith's 2024 novel Inujini (Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).) is a fictionalised account of events around the Battle of Okinawa.[4]
Her 2024 book How to Be an Authortunist (Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). has been described as "a catchy, creative how-to on writing and publishing".[5]
Awards
[edit | edit source]Smith's Tortured Willows: Bent. Bowed. Unbroken., co-authored with Geneve Flynn, Lee Murray, and Christina Sng, won the 2021 Bram Stoker Award for Best Poetry Collection.[6][7]
She won the 2021 Bram Stoker Award for Best Short Non-Fiction for her piece "Horror Writers: Architects of Hope" in issue 55 of The Sirens Call, Halloween 2021.[6][7]
Her Bitter Suites was nominated for the 2018 Bram Stoker Award for Best Long Fiction,[8] and her Unquiet Spirits: Essays by Asian Women in Horror, co-edited with Lee Murray, was nominated for the 2023 Bram Stoker Award for Best Non-Fiction.[9]
References
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Official website As publishing coach
- Voices and Views: An Interview with Angela Yuriko Smith,January 16, 2024
- In conversation with Angela Yuriko Smith, interview with Carina Bissett for The Ginger Nuts of Horror Review Website, April 2, 2024
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