Catriona Ward is an American-born British horror novelist. Her work has earned a number of accolades, including three British Fantasy Awards and a Shirley Jackson Award.
Biography
Catriona Ward was born to English parents in Washington, D.C. Due to her father's work as an international economist, the family moved around and she grew up all over the world, including in the United States, Kenya, Madagascar, Yemen, and Morocco. Dartmoor was the one place the family returned to on a regular basis.
Ward attended Bedales School and went on to study English at St Edmund Hall, Oxford. Ward initially worked as an actor based in New York.
When she returned to London she worked on her first novel while writing for a human rights foundation until she left to take an MA in creative writing from the University of East Anglia. That novel, Rawblood (distributed in the United States as The Girl from Rawblood), was published in 2015.
Now she writes novels and short stories, and reviews for various publications. Ward won the British Fantasy Award for Best Horror Novel in 2016 at the British Fantasy Awards for Rawblood and again in 2018 for Little Eve, making her the first woman to win the prize twice. Little Eve also went on to win the prestigious Shirley Jackson Award for best novel. Her next gothic thriller, The Last House on Needless Street, was published through Viper Books (an imprint of Serpent's Tail) in March 2021, and Tor Nightfire (Tor Books) in the US, in September 2021. Andy Serkis and Jonathan Cavendish’s The Imaginarium Productions has optioned film rights to the book.
Ward lives in London and Devon, England.
Awards
Among her literary awards, Catriona Ward is a 3-time winner of the August Derleth Award (Best Horror Novel) at the British Fantasy Awards.
Work Year & Award Category Result Ref.Rawblood2016 British Fantasy Award Horror Novel (August Derleth Award)2016 Authors' Club Best First Novel AwardLittle Eve2018 Shirley Jackson AwardNovel2019 British Fantasy Award Horror Novel (August Derleth Award)The Last House on Needless Street2021 Goodreads Choice AwardsHorrorhttps://www.goodreads.com/choiceawards/best-horror-books-20212021 Ladies of Horror Fiction AwardNovel2022 KitschiesRed Tentacle (Best Novel)2022 British Fantasy Award Horror Novel (August Derleth Award)https://britishfantasysociety.org/about-the-bfs/the-british-fantasy-awards/bfa-winners/2022 British Book AwardsPage-turner of the Year2022 World Fantasy AwardNovelhttps://www.sfadb.com/World_Fantasy_Awards_2022Sundial2022 Bram Stoker AwardNovelhttps://www.sfadb.com/Bram_Stoker_Awards_20232022 Goodreads Choice AwardsHorror2023 International Thriller Writers AwardsHardcover Novel2023 Locus AwardHorror Novelhttps://www.sfadb.com/Locus_Awards_20232023 British Fantasy Award Horror Novel (August Derleth Award)https://britishfantasysociety.org/british-fantasy-award-winners-2023/Looking Glass Sound2024 World Fantasy AwardNovelhttps://worldfantasy.org/2024-world-fantasy-nominations-and-winners/2024 British Fantasy Award Horror Novel (August Derleth Award)https://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_bfs-derleth_index.asp
Ward has also won the 2022 Sky Arts Awards "The Times Breakthrough Award" for Literature
Notes "2018" is the listed award year for titles eligible; the ceremony was 2019 "2021" is the listed award year for titles eligible; the ceremony was 2022 "2022" is the listed award year for titles eligible; the ceremony was 2023
Bibliography
Novels
American editions
Short fiction YearTitleShort stories unless otherwise noted.First publishedReprintedNotes2018"""Sentinel""Lula-Belle"2019"Black Kitty"2020"At That Age""Slipper"
References
External links
Catriona Ward on Goodreads Catriona Ward at Fantastic Fiction
Profile at Macmillan Publishers Profile at Weidenfeld & Nicolson Profile at Audible Reviews of Works by Publishers Weekly Reviews by Ward on Literary Review