Sydney Leigh

Sydney Leigh is the evil literary double of a mostly sane writer, editor, and native of the North Shore. Her poetry, short fiction, and reviews have appeared in various magazines and anthologies.

Recent publications include her Bram Stoker Award® nominated story "Baby's Breath," available now in chapbook form, poetry in SHROUD 16: THE QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF SPECULATIVE WRITING, the HWA POETRY SHOWCASE VOLUME II, and her short supernatural/noir story "Night Soliloquy," which appears in Written Backwards' latest anthology, THE LIBRARY OF THE DEAD.

Look for her experimental poem "The Undertaker's Melancholy" in Villipede's first horror and dark speculative fiction anthology, DARKNESS AD INFINITUM, and her dark fairy tale "Rabenschwarz," which shares pages with gothic horror legends in Firbolg Publishing's ENTER AT YOUR OWN RISK: THE END IS THE BEGINNING.

Forthcoming work includes poetry in CHIRAL MAD 3 and the third volume in the QUICK SHIVERS series from the DailyNightmare.Com.

She currently works as a shapeshifter at Villipede Publications and is juggling several projects. Mostly, she just avoids the guilty stare of her Border Collie, Holden, who would rather be playing frisbee.

Find out more at thespiderbox.shawnaleighbernard.com.