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| Born | 1963 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
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Barbara Roden (born 1963) is a Canadian horror writer and editor.
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| Born | 1963 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
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Barbara Roden (born 1963) is a Canadian horror writer and editor.
Barbara Roden was born in 1963 in Vancouver, British Columbia. She studied journalism. With her husband Christopher Roden, she founded Ash-Tree Press in 1994. [1] [2] She is editor of All Hallows for the Ghost Story Society. She is a longstanding Sherlock Holmes fan, and she and her husband have edited a number of titles as well as one she wrote. Roden has won World Fantasy Awards as editor and publisher. She has also written fiction and her work has gained awards. [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10]
Roden now lives in Ashcroft, British Columbia, and in 2018 she was elected mayor of the village. She is the editor of the Ashcroft-Cache Creek Journal and in 2018 was awarded the Jack Webster Award for community reporting. [11] [12]
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