How to Recognize a Demon Has Become Your Friend by Linda Addison

The couple married in 1975 and their son Brian was born in 1982. She moved to New York City in 1975 with fiancé Ken Addison, and started working in the Foreign Royalty Accounting Department at RCA Records. Īddison attended Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, from 1970 to 1975, graduating with a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics.

The stories always ended on a note of mystery and intrigue, inspiring young Linda to further explore the mysterious and magical, light and dark, eventually she began to journal her feelings, stories and experiences laying the groundwork for her eventual career as a writer. Janet, a homemaker who never graduated from high school, nightly entertained her children with self-authored stories and tales, inserting her children as characters in her fantastical fables. From an early age, Addison was inspired by the power of storytelling. She is the eldest of nine children born to Janet Marie Webster (née Warrick) and J. Early life Īddison was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on September 8, 1952. Addison is a founding member of the CITH (Circles in the Hair) writing group. Her fifth HWA Bram Stoker was for the collection The Place of Broken Things, written with Alessandro Manzetti. She received a fourth HWA Bram Stoker for the collection The Four Elements, written with Marge Simon, Rain Graves, and Charlee Jacob. Her poetry and fiction collection How To Recognize A Demon Has Become Your Friend won the 2011 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection. The first two awards were for her poetry collections Consumed, Reduced to Beautiful Grey Ashes (2001) and Being Full of Light, Insubstantial (2007). Addison is the first African-American winner of the Bram Stoker Award, which she won five times.

Addison (born September 8, 1952) is an American poet and writer of horror, fantasy, and science fiction.

How to Recognize a Demon Has Become Your Friend by Linda Addison