Murray, Lee
Awards:
“I Don’t Read Horror (& Other Weird Tales)” (Interstellar Flight Magazine) (Interstellar Flight Press), Short Non-Fiction, 2022
Tortured Willows: Bent. Bowed. Unbroken. (Yuriko Publishing), Poetry Collection, 2021
“Permanent Damage” (Attack From the ’80s) (Raw Dog Screaming Press), Short Fiction, 2021
Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women (Omnium Gatherum Media), Anthology, 2020
Grotesque: Monster Stories (Things in the Well), Fiction Collection, 2020
Mentor of the Year Award, 2019
Nominations:
“Displaced Spirits” (Unquiet Spirits: Essays by Asian Women in Horror, Black Spot Books), Short Non-fiction, 2023
Unquiet Spirits: Essays by Asian Women in Horror (Black Spot Books), Non-fiction, 2023
Despatches (PS Publishing), Long Fiction, 2023
Into the Ashes (Severed Press), Novel, 2019
“Dead End Town” (Cthulhu Deep Down Under Volume 2) (IFWG Publishing International), Short Fiction, 2018
Hellhole: An Anthology of Subterranean Terror (Adrenaline Press), Anthology, 2018
BIO: Lee Murray is a writer, editor, poet, essayist, and screenwriter from Aotearoa, and a New Zealand Prime Minister’s Award winner for Literary Achievement in Fiction. A USA Today bestselling author and multiple award-winner (including Sir Julius Vogel, Australian Shadows, Shirley Jackson, and Bram Stoker awards), Lee’s works include the Taine McKenna military thrillers, supernatural crime-noir series The Path of Ra (with Dan Rabarts), fiction collection Grotesque: Monster Stories, as well as several books for children. Her short fiction has appeared in numerous anthologies and magazines, including prestigious venues such as Weird Tales, Space and Time, and Grimdark Magazine. She is proud to have edited more than two dozen anthologies, among them award-winning titles Baby Teeth: Bite Sized Tales of Terror and At the Edge (with Dan Rabarts), Te Kōrero Ahi Kā (with Grace Bridges and Aaron Compton), Hellhole: An Anthology of Subterranean Terror, Midnight Echo #14, Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women (with Geneve Flynn), and Under Her Eye (with Lindy Ryan). A Rhysling- and Pushcart-nominated poet, Lee’s poetry collection, Tortured Willows: Bent, Bowed, Unbroken, is a collaboration with poets Christina Sng, Geneve Flynn, and Angela Yuriko Smith. Her first solo poetry collection, Fox Spirit on a Distant Cloud (2024), won her a Grimshaw Sargeson Fellowship and the NZSA Laura Solomon Cuba Press Prize for ‘unique and innovative vision’. Lee is a life member of Tauranga Writers, New Zealand’s longest standing writing group, and of SpecFicNZ, and she’s an Honorary Literary Fellow of the New Zealand Society of Authors. Lee lives over the hill from Hobbiton in New Zealand’s sunny Bay of Plenty where she dreams up stories from her office overlooking a cow paddock. Read more at www.leemurray.info.