Nadia Bulkin

Nadia Bulkin writes scary stories about the scary world we live in. Thirteen of them can be found in her debut collection, She Said Destroy (Word Horde, 2017) - nominated for a Shirley Jackson Award and a This is Horror Award for best collection. Her short stories have appeared in editions of The Year's Best Weird Fiction (Kelly & Shearman, ed., 2018, Kelly & Strantzas, ed., 2016), The Year's Best Horror (Datlow, ed., 2017), and The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror (Guran, ed., 2017, 2016, 2015, 2009), and have been nominated for the Shirley Jackson Award four times.

Nadia has a B.A. in Political Science from Barnard College and an M.A. in International Affairs from American University. She also writes about and obsesses over nationalism, post-colonialism, and sport – her non-fiction essays have appeared in Tor, The Diplomat, and The Battle Royale Slam Book. She grew up in Jakarta, Indonesia, before relocating to Lincoln, Nebraska. She now lives in Washington, D.C.