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Emma Osborne

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Horror, Fantasy, Gay and Lesbian

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Emma Osborne (they/them) is a queer fiction writer and poet from Naarm Melbourne, Australia. Emma’s writing has appeared in Uncanny Magazine, Nightmare Magazine, Shock Totem, Apex Magazine, Queers Destroy Science Fiction, Pseudopod, the Review of Australian Fiction, the Year’s Best Australian Fantasy and Horror, GlitterShip, HOMETOWN HAUNTS edited by Poppy Nwosu and WASTELANDS 3 edited by John Joseph Adams.

Emma is a graduate of the 2016 Clarion West Writers Workshop and are an Aurealis and Australian Shadows Award finalist.

Their debut novella “Grief Eater” is forthcoming at Interstellar Flight Press. They currently live in Sunbury with their girlfriend and three wonderful cats. You can find Emma on BlueSky at @redscribe.

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	Wastelands: The New Apocalypse by John Joseph Adams (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Veronica Roth (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Hugh Howey (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.73 avg rating — 773 ratings — published 2019 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hometown Haunts: #LoveOzYA Horror Tales by Poppy Nwosu (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Wai Chim (Goodreads Author), Sarah Epstein (Goodreads Author) 3.74 avg rating — 118 ratings — published 2021 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Grief Eater 4.34 avg rating — 87 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nightmare Magazine 67: April 2018 by John Joseph Adams (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Adam-Troy Castro, Carmen Maria Machado (Goodreads Author) 3.83 avg rating — 64 ratings — published 2018 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Uncanny Magazine Issue 28: May/June 2019 by Lynne M. Thomas (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Michael Damian Thomas (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Ellen Klages 4.09 avg rating — 46 ratings — published 2019	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shock Totem 9: Curious Tales of the Macabre and Twisted by K. Allen Wood (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Stephen Graham Jones (Goodreads Author), Bracken MacLeod (Goodreads Author) 4.09 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Year's Best Australian Fantasy and Horror 2014 by Liz Grzyb (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Talie Helene (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Alan Baxter (Goodreads Author) 3.77 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Apex Magazine Issue 60 (May 2014) by Sigrid Ellis (Editor), Caroline M. Yoachim (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Liz Argall (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.92 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Aurealis #71 by Michael Pryor (Goodreads Author) (Editor, Contributor), Michael Grey (Goodreads Author), Emma Osborne (Goodreads Author) 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bastion Issue #5 August 2014 by R. Leigh Hennig (Editor), Jared W. Cooper (Goodreads Author), J. Daniel Batt (Goodreads Author) 4.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Emma Osborne liked Samantha Craig-Stocks's review of Grief Eater: "Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for this ARC! WOW!!! what a novella! Grief Eater follows Kristina, a newly-turned zombie driven by a hunger not just for flesh, but for justice. Abandoned by the people who were supposed to love her, she sets of" Read more of this review »
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Emma Osborne liked Kristen's review of Grief Eater: " Thank you to NetGalley for this eARC This novella follows Kristina, a queer Australian, who has just been turned into a zombie. From her point of view we see the parts of her past that made her, for good or for growth. I felt deeply connected to her," Read more of this review »
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Emma Osborne and 1 other person liked Niall Hetherington's review of Grief Eater: "4.75/5 Thank you to Emma Osborne and NetGalley, my first ARC! Grief Eater gripped me immediately due to the incredible cover art and title. I knew absolutely nothing else about it and how pleasantly surprised I was. Horror thrives on analogy and the zo" Read more of this review »
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Emma Osborne liked Dana's review of Grief Eater: "I really enjoyed that this story did not hold anything back. It was visceral, gory, and angry. Our main character has become a zombie and sets out on a journey to kill her abusive family. The story examines grief and trauma and we can carry it throug" Read more of this review »
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