Livia Llewellyn

Livia Llewellyn is an American short story horror writer from Alaska.

Biography
Livia Llewellyn was born in Anchorage, Alaska. She spent time working for Tor in New York and works as a secretary. She also worked as a theatre actor for twenty years. Llewellyn is best known as a short story writer and has had her work published in magazines including Subterranean Press, Apex Magazine and The Magazine of Bizarro Fiction, as well as anthologies like Ellen Datlow’s The Best Horror of the Year series. In 2011, Engines of Desire: Tales of Love & Other Horrors was nominated for the Shirley Jackson Award for Best Collection while Omphalos was nominated for the Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novelette. Llewellyn's story Furnace was nominated in 2013 for a Shirley Jackson Award for Best Short Story. Her work is translated into Italian.

Llewellyn won the 2020 Edgar Allan Poe Award for best short story with "One of These Nights," from Cutting Edge: New Stories of Mystery and Crime by Women Writers.