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Cynthia Pelayo

Birth place: Puerto Rico

8 works in English-language magazines

Date Page Type Title Magazine
April 2013 120 Short Fiction The Tower The Horror Zine Magazine, Summer 2013
December 2020 14 Interview Loving the Grimm: An Interview with Cynthia Pelayo Penumbric, December 2020
February 2021 |13 Review Latinx Screams Lightspeed, February 2021
June 2021 51 Review Children of Chicago The New York Times Book Review, June 6, 2021
September 2021 |7 Essay The Missing and the Murdered—True Crime As Content Nightmare Magazine, September 2021
August 2022 |8 Interview Interview: Cynthia Pelayo Nightmare Magazine, August 2022
June 2023 48|48.4 Review The Shoemaker's Magician The New York Times Book Review, June 4, 2023
July 2024 98 Poem Imaginary Beings Weird Tales, No. 369

YearAwardCategoryTitleStatus
2017 Elgin Award Book Poems of My Night Nominee
2020 Bram Stoker Award Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection Into the Forest and All the Way Through Nominee
2020 Bram Stoker Award Superior Achievement in Short Non-Fiction I Need to Believe Nominee
2020 Ladies of Horror Fiction Award Best Poetry Collection Into the Forest and All the Way Through Nominee
2021 Bram Stoker Award Superior Achievement in a Novel Children of Chicago Nominee
2021 Elgin Award Book Into the Forest and All the Way Through Nominee
2022 Bram Stoker Award Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection Crime Scene Nominee
2022 Bram Stoker Award Superior Achievement in Short Non-Fiction This Is Not a Poem Nominee
2023 Elgin Award Book Crime Scene Nominee
2025 Locus Poll Award Best Horror Novel Forgotten Sisters Nominee
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