Van Alst, Jr., Theodore C.

Nominations:

Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology (Vintage), Anthology, 2023

BIO: Theodore C. Van Alst Jr. (enrolled Mackinac Bands of Chippewa and Ottawa Indians) is a bestselling author and editor, and the Tilikum Professor and Chair of Indigenous Nations Studies at Portland State University. He is the author of Chicago-set award-winning mosaic novels Sacred Smokes and Sacred City as well as the editor of The Faster Redder Road: The Best UnAmerican Stories of Stephen Graham Jones. His co-edited Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology (with Shane Hawk) was published in September 2023 by Vintage / Penguin Random House. A national bestseller in both the US and Canada, it received its tenth printing less than a month after release and is now in its twelfth. His Southern Gothic novella,Pour One for the Devilwas released by Lanternfish Press in March 2024.