Emma J. Gibbon

TWH 2026 Major Nonfiction Workshop, Nonfiction Craft Lab, Faculty Reading

Described by NPR as “Shirley Jackson meets Johnny Rotten,” Emma J. Gibbon is an award-winning horror writer, poet, and librarian. Her debut fiction collection, Dark Blood Comes from the Feet, was one of NPR’s best books of 2020 and won the Maine Literary Book Award for Speculative Fiction. Her stories have appeared in various anthologies, including Hotel of Haunts and Something Peculiar, magazines such as Reactor (formerly Tor.com) and Unnerving, and was collected in Some of the Best from Reactor. Her poetry has been published in magazines and anthologies, including Strange Horizons, and Pedestal, and she has been nominated for the Rhysling twice. Emma was part of the writing team behind Realm’s “heavy metal werewolf” podcast drama, Undertow: Blood Forest, and her fiction has been adapted in audio for podcasts, including the upcoming season of Kaleidocast. Emma lives with her husband, Steve, and four exceptional animals: Odin, Mothra, Hamlet, and Grim, in a spooky little house in the woods. You can find her at emmajgibbon.com.