S.Z. Ahmed is a horror and fantasy author of books about anxiously angry women, hungry houses, unsettling mythologies, and history’s ability to haunt us both literally and figuratively. She is forever chasing that icy-finger-down-her-back feeling she got when reading Shirley Jackson’s The Lottery for the first time—a feeling that confirmed the world and the people who inhabit it are stranger than she first understood them to be.

When she’s not writing, you can find her impulse buying halloween decorations, listening to podcasts about bizarre historical events, building Pinterest boards, gutting sections of her home, raising her feral brood, or running through the woods in an endless attempt to outpace the specific histories that haunt her.