Christa Carmen
SHE | HER | HERS
- Stonecoast MFA Faculty
Education
MFA, University of Southern Maine, Stonecoast MFA
MA, Boston College
BA, University of Pennsylvania
Christa Carmen lives in Rhode Island. She is the Bram Stoker Award-winning and three-time Shirley Jackson Award-nominated author of The Daughters of Block Island, How to Fake a Haunting, and Beneath the Poet’s House, as well as the Indie Horror Book Award-winning Something Borrowed, Something Blood-Soaked, the Bram Stoker Award-nominated “Through the Looking Glass and Straight into Hell” (Orphans of Bliss: Tales of Addiction Horror), and co-editor of the Aurealis Award-nominated We Are Providence and the Australasian Shadows- and Ditmar Awards-nominated Monsters in the Mills. She has a BA from the University of Pennsylvania, an MA from Boston College, and an MFA from the University of Southern Maine.
Selected Publications
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“My 5-Year-Old Daughter Has Always Loved Spooky Season. And Not Just Because I Write Horror Novels,” People Magazine.
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The H-Word: “Post-Human Horror,” Nightmare Magazine
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“The Clearing,” HOWL (Black Spot Books)
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“Echoes of a Former You,” Vastarien, (Grimscribe Press)
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“And Sweetest in the Gale is Heard,” Not All Monsters (Strangehouse Books)
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“A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes,” The Streaming of Hill House: Essays on the Haunting Netflix Adaption (McFarland & Company, Inc.)
Education
MFA, University of Southern Maine, Stonecoast MFA
MA, Boston College
BA, University of Pennsylvania