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Emma Osborne

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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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	Grief Eater 4.24 avg rating — 864 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
	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 — 800 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) 3.73 avg rating — 119 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
	Nightmare Magazine 67: April 2018 by John Joseph Adams (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Adam-Troy Castro, Carmen Maria Machado (Goodreads Author) 3.85 avg rating — 65 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
	No te lleves la esperanza by Emma Osborne (Goodreads Author), Aitana Vega (Goodreads Author) (Translator) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2018	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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