Final Girl: A Life in Horror
2020 Bram Stoker Award Finalist for Superior Achievement in Short Non-fiction
Christina Sng is the three-time Bram Stoker Award®-winning author of A Collection of Nightmares (2017), A Collection of Dreamscapes (2020), Tortured Willows (2021), Elgin Award runner-up Astropoetry (2017), Stoker finalist The Gravity of Existence (2022), Elgin nominee An Assortment of Sky Things (2016), and haiku chapbooks A Constellation of Songs (2016) and Catku (2016).
Her poetry, fiction, essays, and art appear in such venues as Fantastic Stories of the Imagination, Interstellar Flight Magazine, Penumbric, Southwest Review, and The Washington Post, and received many accolades, including the Jane Reichhold International Prize, The Pula Film Festival International Haiku Award, multiple nominations for the Rhysling Awards, the Dwarf Stars, the Pushcart Prize, and the Ladies of Horror Fiction Award, as well as honorable mentions in the Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, and the Best Horror of the Year.
Christina was a recipient of the 2021 Ladies of Horror Fiction Writers Grant. Her essay Final Girl: A Life in Horror received a 2020 Bram Stoker nomination for Superior Achievement in Short Non-fiction and her first novelette Fury made its debut in the award-winning anthology Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women (2020). As a Poynter ACES certified editor, Christina has worked with authors in non-fiction, memoir, poetry, and fiction. She is an ardent proponent of the Oxford comma.
2020 Bram Stoker Award Finalist for Superior Achievement in Short Non-fiction
Haiku is not meant to be read literally. It is meant to be sipped like a steaming cup of sakura tea, letting all its flavor slowly permeate your tastebuds.
The Queen's Gambit got me to play chess again as it did every other person who once played.
That fascination for things that prowl in the shadows would be an anchor for Singapore horror writer and poet Christina Sng all her life - she has won three Bram Stoker awards for her writing. She shares her love for the genre here, pointing out that daily news brings more horror that she could ever conjure.
Cats have always been an unwavering source of comfort and love, especially during these tumultuous times.
Even in horror movies, cats behave as cats do. It is time we make them the heroes.
Even when we don't mean to, glue trap accidents can still happen from the most unlikely of sources, as I was to learn today.
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