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Gemma Files

Files, Gemma

April 4, 1968 (age 58)

Birth place: London, England, UK

81 works in English-language magazines

Date Page Type Title Magazine
January 1994 191 Short Fiction Skeleton Bitch Palace Corbie, #5, 1994
June 1994 32 Short Fiction Skin City Grue Magazine, Summer 1994
1996 58 Short Fiction Hidebound TransVersions, #5
1997 44 Short Fiction The Diarist TransVersions, #7
1998 50 Short Fiction Torch Song TransVersions, #8/9
1999 16 Short Fiction Blood Makes Noise TransVersions, #11
October 2000 |1 Short Fiction Pretend That We're Dead Three-Lobed Burning Eye, October 2000
July 2003 29 Review Kissing Carrion Locus, #510 July 2003
October 2003 44 Review Kissing Carrion Realms of Fantasy, October 2003
October 2006 Short Fiction Spectral Evidence ChiZine, October-December 2006
May 2007 27 Short Fiction Down in It Horror Carousel, Spring 2007
January 2008 24 Poem Mrs. Margery Lovett, Her Book Mythic Delirium, Winter/Spring 2008
April 2008 40 Short Fiction Drone Not One of Us, April 2008
October 2008 37 Poem Song of the Mother Not One of Us, October 2008
December 2008 |4 Poem Speedometer Lone Star Stories, December 2008
April 2009 4 Poem At the Moment I Am Living in a Haunted House Not One of Us, April 2009
July 2009 |18 Poem The Drowned Town Goblin Fruit, Summer 2009
April 2010 19 Review A Book of Tongues Locus, #591 April 2010
May 2010 32 Poem Jar of Salts Mythic Delirium, Winter/Spring 2010
May 2010 43 Short Fiction The Underneath Shroud: The Quarterly Journal of Dark Fiction and Art, Winter 2010
June 2010 |9 Review A Book of Tongues Ideomancer, June 2010
September 2010 30 Short Fiction each thing i show you is a piece of my death Apex Magazine, September 2010
October 2010 Review A Book of Tongues Strange Horizons, 25 October 2010
April 2011 |5 Short Fiction Signal to Noise ChiZine, April-June 2011
April 2011 |154 Poem Tantalus, Reaching Upwards ChiZine, April-June 2011
June 2011 31 Interview Interview: Gemma Files Icarus, Summer 2011
August 2011 15 Review A Book of Tongues The New York Review of Science Fiction, August 2011
September 2011 Poem Lie-Father Strange Horizons, 5 September 2011
October 2011 Poem Haruspicy Strange Horizons, 3 October 2011
November 2011 Short Fiction In the Poor Girl Taken by Surprise Pseudopod, #257
December 2011 |21 Review A Book of Tongues Eternal Haunted Summer, Winter Solstice 2011
December 2011 76 Interview Gemma Files: The Sex and Death Show Locus, #611 December 2011
January 2012 19 Review A Rope of Thorns Locus, #612 January 2012
February 2012 Short Fiction Sown from Salt Tales to Terrify, No 6
September 2012 Poem In the High Places Strange Horizons, 10 September 2012
October 2012 Poem Invocabulary Strange Horizons, 8 October 2012
October 2012 50 Poem Redcap Not One of Us, October 2012
December 2012 |8 Poem Hymn to Mut Eternal Haunted Summer, Winter Solstice 2012
December 2012 |20 Poem Verse Found Scratched Inside the Lid of a Sarcophagus (Dynasty Unknown) Eternal Haunted Summer, Winter Solstice 2012
May 2013 |2 Short Fiction One in the Morning and One at Night Three-Lobed Burning Eye, May 2013
July 2013 Short Fiction Two Captains Beneath Ceaseless Skies, #125
October 2013 Short Fiction A Feast for Dust Beneath Ceaseless Skies, #132
October 2013 |5 Poem Blót Not One of Us, October 2013
November 2013 Short Fiction Every Angel Innsmouth Magazine, #14 November 2013
December 2013 |12 Poem She Who Stops Eternal Haunted Summer, Winter Solstice 2013
January 2014 72 Short Fiction Satan's Jewel Crown Dark Discoveries #26, Winter 2014
March 2014 |8 Poem For Every Purpose Eternal Haunted Summer, Spring Equinox 2014
March 2014 Poem Litany of the Family Bean Strange Horizons, 24 March 2014
September 2014 |9 Review We Will All Go Down Together Ideomancer, September 2014
October 2014 202 Interview Author Spotlight: Gemma Files Nightmare Magazine, October 2014
October 2014 Short Fiction Drawn Up from Deep Places Beneath Ceaseless Skies, #159
October 2014 |9 Poem Sacred Liminality, Autumn 2014
October 2014 7 Short Fiction This Is Not for You Nightmare Magazine, October 2014
January 2015 64 Poem Calving Spectral Realms, Winter 2015
January 2015 Short Fiction The Salt Wedding Kaleidotrope, Winter 2015
January 2015 33 Poem The Song of the Unformed Spectral Realms, Winter 2015
November 2015 |12 Interview Author Spotlight: Gemma Files Nightmare Magazine, November 2015
November 2015 |5 Short Fiction The Emperor's Old Bones Nightmare Magazine, November 2015
December 2015 21 Review Kissing Carrion Locus, #659 December 2015
December 2015 55 Review The Worm in Every Heart Locus, #659 December 2015
March 2016 |4 Review Experimental Film Strange Horizons, 14 March 2016
June 2016 21 Review Experimental Film Locus, #665 June 2016
August 2016 Short Fiction Hairwork The Dark, August 2016
August 2017 |6 Essay I Need My Pain Nightmare Magazine, August 2017
December 2017 36 Review Experimental Film Cemetery Dance, #76, 2017
June 2018 19 Interview Interview with Gemma Files LampLight, June 2018
June 2018 1 Short Fiction Thin Cold Hands LampLight, June 2018
December 2018 |3 Short Fiction Nanny Grey Nightmare Magazine, December 2018
2019 159 Short Fiction Look Up The Weird Fiction Review, Fall 2019
March 2019 Short Fiction Venio Vastarien, Spring 2019
April 2019 |2 Poem The Three Mothers Not One of Us, April 2019
July 2019 |8 Review Invocabulary Strange Horizons, 29 July 2019
October 2019 |4 Short Fiction Grave Goods Nightmare Magazine, October 2019
July 2021 |7 Poem Chernobyl Litany The Deadlands, July 2021
November 2021 29 Interview Interview: Gemma Files Cosmic Horror Monthly, November 2021
November 2021 Short Fiction Sleep Hygiene Pseudopod, #783
2023 20 Short Fiction Revelstoke New Edge Sword and Sorcery, Winter 2023
October 2024 |8 Interview Author Spotlight: Gemma Files Nightmare Magazine, October 2024
October 2024 |3 Short Fiction Bb Minor, or The Suicide Choir: An Oral History Gamut Magazine, October 2024
October 2024 |1 Short Fiction Little Horn Nightmare Magazine, October 2024
May 2025 |4 Short Fiction Suddenly My House Became a Tree of Sores The Dark, May 2025

YearAwardCategoryTitleStatus
1999 International Horror Guild Award Best Short Story The Emperor's Old Bones Winner
2000 Prix Aurora Awards Best Short-Form Work in English / Meilleure nouvelle en anglais The Emperor's Old Bones Nominee
2009 Rhysling Award Long Poem Mrs. Margery Lovett, Her Book Nominee
2010 Bram Stoker Award Superior Achievement in a First Novel A Book of Tongues Nominee
2010 Locus Poll Award Best Novelette each thing i show you is a piece of my death Nominee
2010 Rhysling Award Long Poem The Drowned Town Nominee
2010 Shirley Jackson Award Best Novelette each thing i show you is a piece of my death Nominee
2010 Shirley Jackson Award Best Short Fiction The Jacaranda Smile Nominee
2010 WSFA Small Press Award WSFA Small Press Award each thing i show you is a piece of my death Nominee
2011 Gaylactic Spectrum Awards Best Novel A Book of Tongues Nominee
2011 Locus Poll Award Best First Novel A Book of Tongues Nominee
2012 Gaylactic Spectrum Awards Best Novel A Rope of Thorns Nominee
2013 Rhysling Award Short Poem Redcap Nominee
2014 WSFA Small Press Award WSFA Small Press Award Trap-Weed Nominee
2015 Locus Poll Award Best Novelette A Wish from a Bone Nominee
2016 Locus Poll Award Best Short Story Hairwork Nominee
2016 Shirley Jackson Award Best Novel Experimental Film Winner
2016 Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic Adult Experimental Film Winner
2017 Locus Poll Award Best Short Story Ghost Pressure Nominee
2018 Bram Stoker Award Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection Spectral Evidence Nominee
2019 Elgin Award Book Invocabulary Nominee
2019 Shirley Jackson Award Best Collection Drawn Up from Deep Places Nominee
2020 Elgin Award Book Invocabulary Nominee
2021 Bram Stoker Award Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection In That Endlessness, Our End Winner
2022 Rhysling Award Short Poem Chernobyl Litany Nominee
2023 Bram Stoker Award Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection Blood from the Air Winner
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Cover April 2024 The Body As Haunted The Body As Haunted