Tamara Kaye Sellman

Pacific Northwest author Tamara Kaye Sellman favors the liminal, subterranean, gothic, and often eldritch landscapes of her beloved region in her stories.

Sellman is co-author of RAIN SHADOWS with podcast co-host Clay Vermulm (Beneath the Rain Shadow). Her podcast ventures will expand to include a second season of Beneath the Rain Shadow as well as introduce a new poetry film podcast, Cinematopoeia, in 2026.

Earlier in 2025 she was a featured guest author for the second edition of the CAMP CRYPTICON anthology. Her work has been widely anthologized elsewhere, most recently in TRUE STORIES (2023) and in fall 2024, when the Dark Decades Anthology Series showcased her tech horror story in its title, LURKING.

She’s author of CUL DE SAC STORIES (Aqueduct Press, 2024), quirky speculative stories that question safety and reality in the American exurban landscape, especially for marginalized communities.

Her medical memoir told in verse and flash prose, INTENTION TREMOR (MoonPath Press, 2021) chronicles her life after an MS diagnosis in 2013 and serves the interests of anyone managing the day-to-day challenges of chronic illness.

An indie filmmaker, Sellman is currently transforming her poems into indie films for MCR Media to make them more accessible; one experiment, LOOK UP, won bronze laurels at the WRPN Womens International Film Festival and has appeared in five other film festivals since June 2024 (Washington, South Carolina, Copenhagen, Toronto, Oregon). She is at work on several horror-adjacent poetry films, the seeds of a documentary, and filmmaking certification.