Bio

Nicole Cushing is a writer of dark, weird fiction.

Is her stuff horrific? Well, about ten years ago she won the Bram Stoker Award and garnered a couple of Shirley Jackson Award nominations. So, that label might fit. However, reviewers tend to apply other adjectives to her work (“cerebral”, “brutal”, “transgressive”, “wickedly funny”, “taboo”, “groundbreaking” and “mind-bending”, for example). 

Based in southeastern Indiana, many of her books evoke the grim strangeness of Midwestern life via playful, occasionally picaresque, metafiction. (In this regard, she counts Gombrowicz, Grimmelshausen, and Kundera as influences.) 

Cemetery Dance released her most recent book, The Plastic Priest, last December.