Angela Yuriko Smith
Angela Yuriko Smith is a Ryukyuan-American (also described as Shimanchu-American) writer and publisher. Her publishing house is named Yuriko, which was her grandmother's given name.[1] She has won two Bram Stoker Awards.[2]
As of 2025[update], she is president of the international Horror Writers Association.[3]
Writing
[edit]Smith's 2024 novel Inujini (ISBN 979-8884457614) is a fictionalized account of events around the Battle of Okinawa.[4]
Her 2024 book How to Be an Authortunist (ISBN 9781959048183) has been described as "a catchy, creative how-to on writing and publishing".[5]
Awards
[edit]Smith's Tortured Willows: Bent. Bowed. Unbroken., co-authored with Geneve Flynn, Lee Murray, and Christina Sng, won the 2021 Bram Stoker Award for Best Poetry Collection.[6][7]
She won the 2021 Bram Stoker Award for Best Short Non-Fiction for her piece "Horror Writers: Architects of Hope" in issue 55 of The Sirens Call, Halloween 2021.[6][7]
Her Bitter Suites was nominated for the 2018 Bram Stoker Award for Best Long Fiction,[8] and her Unquiet Spirits: Essays by Asian Women in Horror, co-edited with Lee Murray, was nominated for the 2023 Bram Stoker Award for Best Non-Fiction.[9]
References
[edit]- ↑ "About". Yuriko Publishing. Archived from the original on July 19, 2025. Retrieved September 29, 2025.
- ↑ "Smith, Angela Yuriko". The Bram Stoker Awards. Archived from the original on October 9, 2025. Retrieved September 29, 2025.
- ↑ "Board of Trustees & Senior Staff". horror.org. Horror Writers Association. Archived from the original on October 9, 2025. Retrieved September 29, 2025.
- ↑ "Inujini by Angela Yuriko Smith". booklife.com. Book Life. Archived from the original on December 8, 2024. Retrieved October 10, 2025.
- ↑ "How to Be an Authortunist by Angela Yuriko Smith | BookLife". booklife.com. Book Life. Retrieved October 10, 2025.
- 1 2 Armstrong, Vanessa (May 17, 2022). "Congratulations to the 2021 Bram Stoker Awards Winners!". Reactor. Archived from the original on September 15, 2025. Retrieved September 29, 2025.
- 1 2 "2021 Stoker Awards Winners". Locus Online. May 15, 2022. Archived from the original on July 4, 2022. Retrieved September 29, 2025.
- ↑ "2018 Bram Stoker Awards Winners & Nominees". The Bram Stoker Awards. Archived from the original on May 21, 2022. Retrieved September 29, 2025.
- ↑ "The 2023 Bram Stoker Awards Winners". The Bram Stoker Awards. Retrieved September 29, 2025.
External links
[edit]- Official website As a publishing coach
- Voices and Views: An Interview with Angela Yuriko Smith, January 16, 2024
- In conversation with Angela Yuriko Smith, interview with Carina Bissett for The Ginger Nuts of Horror Review Website, April 2, 2024
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