Gwendolyn Kiste

Gwendolyn Kiste is a Pennsylvania-based writer of horror and speculative fiction, working in both short stories and novels. She won the Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel for The Rust Maidens, and later took the Stoker for Best Novel with The Haunting of Velkwood, a supernatural horror story. Her dark fantasy Reluctant Immortals won the Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Fiction. Kiste grew up in Ohio and now lives outside Pittsburgh.