Fitzpatrick, Claire

Nominations:

A Vindication of Monsters: Essays on Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley (IFWG Publishing International), Non-fiction, 2023

BIO: Claire Fitzpatrick is an award-winning author of speculative fiction and non-fiction. She won the 2018 Rocky Wood Award for Non-Fiction and Criticism, was the 2020 recipient of the Rocky Wood Memorial scholarship fund, was nominated for the 2022 William Atheling Jr. Award for Criticism or Review, and is a 2023 Bram Stoker Award Nominee. She lives somewhere in Queensland, Australia, with her 12 animals and two eldritch offspring. Her husband was the sci-fi artist Matthew Schuler (1988-2024). Visit her at www.clairefitzpatrick.com.au

Awards:

The Body Horror Book (Self-published), non-fiction anthology. 2017 winner of the Australasian Horror Writers Association Rocky Wood Award for Non-Fiction and Criticism. 

Nominations:

A Vindication of Monsters: Essays on Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley (IFWG Publishing International), non-fiction anthology. 2023. HWA Stoker Award. Long non-fiction. Recipient of the Rocky Wood Memorial scholarship. 

How Mary Shelley Continues To Influence Science Fiction (Aurealis #145) 2021. William Atheling Jr Award for Criticism or Review.