Linda Addison (poet)
Linda D. Addison is an American poet and writer of horror, fantasy, and science fiction. Addison is the first AfricanAmerican winner of the Bram Stoker Award, which she won four times. The first two awards were for her poetry collections Consumed, Reduced to Beautiful Grey Ashes and Being Full of Light, Insubstantial . 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. Addison received a fourth HWA Bram Stoker for the collection, The Four Elements, written with Marge Simon, Rain Graves, and Charlee Jacob. She is a founding member of the CITH writing group.
Addison was born in Philadelphia, PA, on September 8, 1952. She is the eldest of nine children born to Janet Marie Webster and J. Decarsta Webster. From an early age, Addison was inspired by the power of storytelling. Janet, a homemaker who never graduated from High School nightly entertained her children with self authored stories and tales, inserting her children as characters in her fantastical fables. The stories always ended on a note of mystery and intrigue, inspiring young Linda to further explore the mysterious and magical, light and dark, eventually she began to journal her feelings, stories and experiences laying the groundwork for her eventual career as a writer.
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