I am represented by Max Edwards at Apple Tree Literary: max@appletreeliterary.co.ukEmail: Laura. N. Mauro at gmail dot comFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/l.n. MauroTwitter: https://twitter.com/LauraNMauroMost writers will tell you they've been writing since they were small, and I'm no exception. I started out writing poems, which graduated into awful teenage angst poems (with the requisite soujourn into Sprawling Epic Fantasy Novel territory).
I started writing short stories in 2011 but never took it seriously until 2012, when my first short story was published in 'Shadows and Tall Trees'. Since then, I've been what you might call a 'serious' writer, although I'm yet to give up my day job (it's part of The Dream, along with the apartment in Osaka and the functioning knee joints.)I'm also a sometime pro wrestling journalist; my article on the Golden Lovers received a Kevin Kelly shout-out during NJPW's G1 tournament, which I haven't stopped talking about.
In 2018, my short story "Looking for Laika" won the British Fantasy Award for Best Short Story. I haven't stopped talking about that, either. I was born and raised in south east London and currently live in Essex under extreme duress. When I'm not making things up I enjoy reading, travelling, watching wrestling, playing video games, collecting tattoos, dyeing my hair strange colours and making up nicknames for my cats.
Before earning her MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts, Mary Rickert worked as kindergarten teacher, coffee shop barista, Disneyland balloon vendor, and personnel assistant in Sequoia National Park.
She is the winner of the Locus Award, Crawford Award, World Fantasy Award, and Shirley Jackson Award. She is a frequent contributor to The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Her short story, Funeral Birds is included in the anthology, When things Get Dark: Stories Inspired by Shirley Jackson, published by Titan Books in the fall of 2021. Her novella, Lucky Girl, How I Became a Horror Writer: A Krampus Story will be published by Tor.com in the fall of 2022.
