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“I try to create sympathy for my characters, then turn the monsters loose.”–Stephen King
Amanda Crum is a writer and artist whose work has appeared in publications such as Eastern Iowa Review, Barren Magazine, and Dark Eclipse as well as in several anthologies, including Beyond The Hill and Two Eyes Open. She is also the author of The Fireman’s Daughter, Ghosts Of The Imperial, The Darkened Mirror, Dreaming Of Snow (poems inspired by Breaking Bad), and a chapbook of dark fairy tales titled Cinders And Glass. Her first chapbook of horror-inspired poetry, The Madness In Our Marrow, was shortlisted for a Bram Stoker Award nomination in 2015; in 2020, her second book of horror poetry, Tall Grass, also made the shortlist. In 2019, her short story “A Shimmer In The Parlor” was a finalist for the J.F. Powers Prize in Short Fiction. She is also a Best of the Net nominee and a nominee for the 2019 Pushcart Prize. Amanda currently lives in Kentucky with her husband and two children.
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Novel, The Fireman’s Daughter–published in 2008 by WritingRoom
Short story, “Three Perfect Cigarettes”–first place winner in the WritingRoom short story contest 2008
Short story, “Megan’s Bridge”–Dunesteef Audio Magazine, March 2009
Short story, “Roads Part II”–Strange Circle Magazine, June 2011
Short story, “Water For Sunshine”–published in SQ Magazine Fall/Winter 2010/2011
Short story, “The Robin”–published in literary journal From The Wellhouse June 2013
Short story, “The Cloud Seeds”–Bay Laurel Magazine, published fall of 2013
Short story, “Roads”–Dark Eclipse Magazine, published fall of 2013
Short story, “The Things We Carry”–Fiction Vortex, fall 2014– 3rd place in their 2014 Horror Award contest
Novel, Ghosts Of The Imperial–published by Indigo Sea Press December 2015
Poem, “The Bee Charmer”–Three Drops From A Cauldron special Samhain issue, July 2015
Poem, “The Things We Carry”–Seven Deadly Sins Anthology (Lost Tower Publications), December 2015
Chapbook, The Madness In Our Marrowself-published, placed on the preliminary ballot for a Bram Stoker Award nomination–2015
Poems, “A Rumbling in the Woods (She’ll Swallow Your Soul)” and “The Longest Walk”–Slim Volume: See Into the Dark (Poetry anthology), May 2016
Short story, “Rage”–MacKenzie Publishing/ Two Eyes Open Anthology–August 2017
Poem, “The Witch”–BCTC literary journal The Bluegrass Accolade–May 2017
Poem, “Reassurances From Starboard”–Beyond The Hill anthology (Lost Tower Publications) Fall 2017
Short story, “The Harvester”–Eastern Iowa Review, April 2018
Poems, “Doorway” and “A Sky Full Of Blood”–Kentucky’s Best Emerging Poets, Z Publishing–April 2018
Poem, “A Winter Home”–Bluegrass Accolade, May 2018
Poems, “Mother” and “Tall Grass”–Lonesome October Lit, Sept./Oct. 2018
Flash fiction piece, “Communion”–The Ginger Collect, Oct. 2018
Poem, “Barnlights”–Editor’s Pick, Barren Magazine, October 2018
Poems, “The Woodsman” and “Cinders and Glass”–Gingerbread House Lit, December 2018
Poem, “The Arrow”–Ghost City Review, December 2018
Poem, “She Floats”–Best Emerging Poets of the Southeast anthology, December 2018
Poem, “A Pillow, Discarded”–Corvid Queen, December 2018
Flash fiction, “Communion”–The No Sleep Podcast, 2019
Short story, “The Smell Of Snow”–The Sirens Call Magazine, February 2019
Poem, “A Murmuration Of Starlings”–Nightingale and Sparrow, Feb 2019
Poem, “Dreaming Of Snow”–Ghost City Review, March 2019
Poem, “In The Abbatoir”–Dark Marrow, March 2019
Poem, “Cartography”–Ghost City Review, April 2019
Poem, “The Boy”–Pulp Poets Press, April 2019
Poem, “The Offering”–Bottom Shelf Whiskey, May 2019
Poems, “Magpie”, “Afternoon Rebellion In A Trailer Park”, and “Cookie Cutters”–Chantarelle’s Notebook, June 2019
Poems, “In An Absence Of Light”, “Peppermint and Willow”, and “Bramble And Thorn”–Pussy Magic, July 2019
Short story, “A Shimmer In The Parlor”–Prometheus Dreaming, July 2019
Poem, “Ghost Fractures”–Dark Marrow, July 2019
Middle-grade fiction novel, The Darkened Mirror–Riversong Books, July 2019
Short story, “A Surface Life”–Back Patio Press, August 2019
Chapbook of horror poetry, Tall Grass, August 2019
Short story, “Do You Like The Way It Burns?”–Accursed anthology, 2019
Short story, “Overturn”–The Hellebore, September 2019
Poetry Chapbook, “Cinders and Glass”–Sword and Kettle Press, November 2019
Short story, “Tension”–runner up in the Theme of Absence Halloween Fiction Competition
Poem, “New South”–Z Publishing Best Emerging Poets 2019
Short story, “Orchid In a Bell Jar”–Dream Noir, October 2019
Poem, “Hostage”–Detritus, Dec 2019
Poem, “My Body Is A Haunted House”–Truly U, October 2019
Poem, “A Sigh In The Dark”–Neon Mariposa Haunting Issue, October 2019
Poem, “Roads”, Shut Down Strangers and Hot Rod Angels (Bruce Springsteen anthology from Bone and Ink Press)–September 2019
Poem, “Doorway”–LexPoMo anthology, 2019
Poem, “Power Lines”–Streetlight Press, Jan. 2020
Short story, “A Metamorphosis”–Dark Sire, Jan. 2020
Poems, “Sid”, “Lies We Tell Ourselves In Sunlight”, “You Are My Lucky Star”–Detritus, 2020
Poem, “Great and Terrible”–Ghost City Review, Feb. 2020
Flash fiction, “For The Birds”–won 2nd place in the Molotov Cocktail Flash Fiction Competition, Feb. 2020
Poem, “Vs.”–Nightingale and Sparrow, Feb. 2020
Poem, “Tempus Fireflies”–Dust Poetry, March 2020
Flash fiction, “A Sky Full Of Blood”–Bottom Shelf Whiskey, May 2020
Short story, “Candy Canes”–Dream Noir, May 2020
Creative nonfiction, “Like An Ocean In A Cathedral”–3 Moons Publishing, May 2020
Poem, “Duality“, for the Blood Orange Tarot Project, June 2020
Book cover, Coffin Blossoms Anthology, 2020
Short story, “Retail Hell”–Coffin Blossoms Anthology, 2020
Poem, “When A Gorilla Puts On A Necktie”–The Daily Drunk Mag, July 2020
Poem, “The Deadlights”–The Daily Drunk Mag, July 2020
Story, “Beneath Shifting Skies”–Clay Literary, August 2020
Poem, “In Pipes”–anthology by Broken Sleep Books
Story, “To Leaven His Bones”–Coming Buried Or Not anthology, Sept. 2020
Poem, “Senior Year”–Versification, Sept. 2020
Flash piece, “Purple Honey”–Meow Meow Pow Pow, Sept. 2020
Story, “Walking The Tightrope”–Anti-Heroin Chic, Oct. 2020
Poem, “Clothesline”–Pink Plastic House, Oct. 2020
Flash Fiction, “When No One Answers”–Daily Drunk, Oct. 2020
Story, “The Shape Of Him”–Dream Journal, Oct. 2020
Story, “Call My Name”–Nightmare Press, TBD
Story, “A Spectral Sigh”–Crow & Cross Keys, December 2020
Story, “To Silence The Ringing Of Bells”, Dream Journal, Dec. 2020
Poem, “A Cycle of Endings”–Nightingale & Sparrow/Blizzard, Jan. 2021
Story, “Whispers In The Cyclone”–Tales From The Moonlit Path, Feb. 2021
Flash fiction, “A Cure For Sleeplessness”–Shotgun Honey, March 22, 2021
Story, “Buffalo Road”–Scarlet Leaf Review, March 2021
Flash fiction, “Memento Mori”–The Sirens Call, March 2021
Flash fiction, “What Moves In The Night”–Ghost Orchid Press/Hundred Word Horror anthology, 2021
Flash fiction, “The Drought, The Deluge”–Badlung Press/Depression Cookbook, 2021
Poem, “Pandemic Is Code For Starvation”–The Daily Drunk, January 2021
Short story, “Waking The Trees”–Curious Blue Press/Good Southern Witches anthology, spring 2021
Poetry chapbook, “The Things I’ve Carried”–Daily Drunk Press
Poem, “An Offering”–Fevers Of The Mind, 2021
Poem, “The Exchange”–Rough Diamond Poetry Journal, 2021
Poem, “My Body Is A Haunted House”–Pink Plastic House, October 2021
Poem, “A Lesson”–Verse, Halloween, 2021
Flash, “Worry”–Nightingale and Sparrow, 2021
Flash, “In Memoriam”–Drunken Pen, 2021
Short story, “711”–Gabba Gabba Hey anthology, July 2021
Upcoming publications
Poetry chapbook, A Sorrow Of Ghosts/Nightingale & Sparrow Press
Recognition
Best of the Net nomination for A Pillow, Discarded–Sept. 2019
Cybil Award nomination for The Darkened Mirror–October 2019
Pushcart Prize nomination for “Orchid In A Bell Jar”–Dec. 2019
Poetry chapbook, Tall Grass, shortlisted for a Bram Stoker Award nomination, Feb. 2020
2nd Place, Molotov Cocktail International Flash Fiction Competition, Feb. 2020
Indie Horror Book Award nomination for Tall Grass, May 2020
Short story, “A Metamorphosis”, nominated for Bram Stoker Award consideration by The Dark Sire Magazine, December 2020
Short story, “A Shepherd For The Drying Times”, finalist for The Dark Sire Awards, January 2021
Poem, “Vs.”, included in the Top 10 Micropoets, Nightingale & Sparrow
Book of horror poetry, The Day You Learned To Swim, shortlist for a 2020 Bram Stoker Award nomination
Short story, “A Metamorphosis”, winner of the Audience Choice Award, The Dark Sire, Feb. 2021
Short story, “A Mouthful Of Ice”, winner of the Horror Award, The Dark Sire, Feb. 2022