Linda Addison

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American poet, writer (born 1952)

United States WritersBorn 1952 · age 74

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Linda D. Addison is an American poet and writer of horror, fantasy, and science fiction. Addison is the first African-American winner of the Bram Stoker Award, which she won six times.

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2025Bram Stoker Award for Best Poetry Collection

2019Bram Stoker Award for Best Poetry Collection

2017Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement

2013Bram Stoker Award for Best Poetry Collection

2011Bram Stoker Award for Best Poetry Collection

2007Bram Stoker Award for Best Poetry Collection

2001Bram Stoker Award for Best Poetry Collection

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Linda D. Addison is an American poet and writer of horror, fantasy, and science fiction. Addison is the first African-American winner of the Bram Stoker Award, which she won six times. The first two awards were for her poetry collections Consumed, Reduced to Beautiful Grey Ashes (2001) and Being Full of Light, Insubstantial (2007). Her poetry and fiction collection How To Recognize A Demon Has Become Your Friend won the 2011 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection. She received a fourth HWA Bram Stoker for the collection The Four Elements, written with Marge Simon, Rain Graves, and Charlee Jacob. Her fifth HWA Bram Stoker was for the collection The Place of Broken Things, written with Alessandro Manzetti. Addison is a founding member of the CITH writing group.

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