Vivian Shaw wears too many earrings and likes edged weapons and expensive ink, and, as an expat Brit born in Kenya, is not actually from anywhere. She has a BA in art history, an MFA in creative writing and publishing arts, and makes jewelry for fun. She writes about monsters, both in and out of classic horror literature; medicine, in its many forms; machines, extant and fantastical; disasters and their causes; and, perhaps most importantly, found family. She is the author of the Dr. Greta Helsing contemporary fantasy series, STRANGE PRACTICE, DREADFUL COMPANY, GRAVE IMPORTANCE, BITTER WATERS, and STRANGE NEW WORLD (Orbit, forthcoming), and the sci-fi/horror novella THE HELIOS SYNDROME (Lethe Press). She reviews for the Washington Post and her short sci-fi/horror fiction has appeared in Uncanny and Pseudopod.

(She also reads terrible vampire novels so you don’t have to.)

In her spare time she collects terrible vintage cookbooks and very nice fountain pens, and writes fanfiction (pen name: coldhope). She lives in Santa Fe with her wife, the Hugo- and Locus-Award-winning author Arkady Martine.

Vivian is represented by Stephen Barbara of InkWell Management and Steve Fisher of APA. For all publicity requests, contact Ellen B. Wright, Associate Publicity Director, Orbit & Redhook, or use this online contact form.