Yvonne Navarro

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Yvonne Navarro
Yvonne Navarro in 2019.jpg
Navarro in 2019
Born1957 (age 66–67)
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
OccupationAuthor
NationalityAmerican
Notable awards Bram Stoker Award (2002)
Spouse Weston Ochse (died 2023)
Website
www.yvonnenavarro.com

Yvonne Navarro (born 1957 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American author who has published over twenty novels. Of those twenty, the titles AfterAge, deadrush, Final Impact, Red Shadows, DeadTimes, That's Not My Name and Mirror Me were solo novels, or fiction created solely by her. Her most recent works Highborn and Concrete Savior are also solo novels and are part of The Dark Redemption Series. She lives in Sierra Vista, Arizona and was married to author Weston Ochse. [1]

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Awards

AfterAge was a finalist for the Horror Writers Association's 1993 Bram Stoker Award, in the category of Superior Achievement in a First Novel. [2] deadrush was a finalist for the Horror Writers Association's 1995 Bram Stoker Award, in the category of Superior Achievement in a Novel. [3] Her 'Buffyverse' novel, The Willow Files, Vol. 2, won the 2002 Bram Stoker Award in the category of Works for Young Readers. [4] Final Impact won the 1997 Chicago Women in Publishing Award for Excellence in Adult Fiction, [1] and the Rocky Mountain News "Unreal Worlds" Award for Best Horror Paperback of 1997. [5]

That's Not My Name was the First Place Winner of the Illinois Women's Press Association's 2001 Mate E. Palmer Communications Contest in the Fiction Novel Category. [1] That's Not My Name was also the First Place Winner of the National Federation of Press Women's 2001 Communications Contest in the Fiction Novel Category. [1] Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Paleo was the First Place Winner in the Illinois Women's Press Association's 2001 Mate E. Palmer Communications Contest in the Juvenile Book Category, and the Third Place Winner, National Federation of Press Women's 2001 Communications Contest in the Juvenile Book Category. [1]

Buffyverse

Yvonne Navarro has written seven novels related to the fictional 'Buffyverse':

She has contributed 'Buffyverse' short stories to:

Other novels

She has written numerous media tie-in novels, including Elektra, Species , Species II , Aliens: Music of the Spears, Ultraviolet , Elektra , and the first Hellboy . Her most recent original tie-in novel was Supernatural: The Usual Sacrifices, published by Titan Books on June 27, 2017.

Short stories and artwork

She contributed the story "Meet Me on the Other Side" to the collection The Children of Cthulhu . She has had well over a hundred other short stories published in small press magazines and professional anthologies. A number of her black and white illustrations also appeared in small press magazines in the 1990s.[ which? ] [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Yvonnenavarro.com
  2. ↑ "Horror Writers Association – Past Stoker Award Nominees & Winners" . Retrieved June 29, 2011.
  3. ↑ "Horror Writers Association – Past Stoker Award Nominees & Winners" . Retrieved June 29, 2011.
  4. ↑ "Horror Writers Association – Past Stoker Award Nominees & Winners" . Retrieved June 29, 2011.
  5. ↑ Stephen Jones; Kim Newman; Peter Straub (2005). Horror: another 100 best books. Running Press. p. 293. ISBN   978-0-7867-1577-0 . Retrieved June 29, 2011.
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