During March the Horror Writers Association celebrates Women in Horror. They run an interview series all month long showcasing some of the women within the horror world.
The HWA Seattle Chapter would like to highlight some of our own chapter members during this time. Please check them out (link included) and head to the HWA blog for their series.
Melissa Stewart
Melissa Stewart is a women’s fiction horror writer. Her short stories have been published with Flame Tree, Dark Rose, and Black Hare presses under her pen name M. Leigh. Her unpublished novel, Stitches, was a finalist with the PNWA contest (2017), Judges Favorite with Ink and Insights (2021), and made the Long List at the Stockholm Writers Festival (2022). She believes that women’s fiction is the perfect space to let horror grow, mutate, and create unforgettable characters.
Find her here www.mleighstories.com or @mleighstories
Naching T. Kassa - Chapter Secretary
Naching T. Kassa is a wife, mother, and writer. She’s created short stories, novellas, poems, and co-created three children. She resides in Eastern Washington State with her husband, Dan Kassa. Naching is a member of the Horror Writers Association, Mystery Writers of America, The Sound of the Baskervilles, The ACD Society, The Crew of the Barque Lone Star, The Beacon Society and the Sherlock Holmes Society of London. She works in Talent Relations at Crystal Lake Publishing and was a recipient of the 2022 HWA Diversity Grant.
You can find her work on Amazon.
Brianna Malotke - Chapter Co-Chair
Brianna Malotke is a writer based in the Pacific Northwest. In addition to being a member and on the social media team for the Horror Writers Association, she’s also co-chair of the Seattle Chapter. She has work in Beautiful Tragedies 2 and 3, The Dire Circle, The Nottingham Horror Collective, Under Her Skin, and HorrorScope: A Zodiac Anthology Volumes 1 and 4. In fall of 2023 her debut horror poetry collection, Fashion Trends, Deadly Ends, was released and she was a “Writer in Residence” at the Chateau d’Orquevaux in France. Malotke’s next collection, Lost Cherry, will be published with January Ember Press fall of 2024.
For more malotkewrites.com