Kay Chronister

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Kay Chronister is an American gothic writer. [1] She was nominated for the Shirley Jackson Award and World Fantasy Award. [2] [3]

Her work appeared in The Dark [4] and Reactor . [5]

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  1. "How 'The Bog Wife' by Kay Chronister Got Made". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved 2024-10-20.
  2. "Local Author Event - Kay Chronister". chestercounty.com. Retrieved 2024-10-20.
  3. "Kay Chronister in conversation with Sarah Pinsker". Curious Iguana. Retrieved 2024-10-20.
  4. "Kay Chronister". The Dark Magazine. Retrieved 2024-10-20.
  5. Chronister, Kay (2024-09-30). "Five Books Featuring Horrific Family Inheritances". Reactor. Retrieved 2024-10-20.
  6. Carroll, Tobias (2022-11-30). "A Western Phantasmagoria: Kay Chronister's Desert Creatures". Reactor. Retrieved 2024-10-20.
  7. "Paul Di Filippo Reviews Desert Creatures by Kay Chronister". Locus Online. 2022-12-24. Retrieved 2024-10-20.
  8. "Desert Creatures By Kay Chronister". The British Fantasy Society. 2024-10-09. Retrieved 2024-10-20.
  9. White, Kiersten (2024-09-29). "Book Review: 'The Bog Wife,' by Kay Chronister". The New York Times. Retrieved 2024-10-20.
  10. "In Kay Chronister's Novel, a Father Is Sacrificed for a Bog Wife Who Never Arrives". Electric Literature. 2024-10-15. Retrieved 2024-10-20.
  11. "Review: There's a sickness in the bog". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Retrieved 2024-10-20.
  12. "THE BOG WIFE". STARBURST Magazine. 2024-10-08. Retrieved 2024-10-20.