Vivian Shaw

Vivian Shaw wears too many earrings and likes edged weapons and expensive ink, and, as an expat Brit born in Kenya, is not actually from anywhere. She writes about monsters, in and out of classic horror literature; machines, extant and fantastical; disasters and their causes; and found family. She is the author of the Dr. Greta Helsing contemporary fantasy series, Strange Practice, Dreadful Company, Grave Importance, Bitter Waters, and Strange New World (Orbit, forthcoming), and the sci-fi/horror novella The Helios Syndrome (Lethe Press). She reviews for the Washington Post and her short fiction has appeared in Uncanny and Pseudopod.