Marie O’Regan is a Shirley Jackson, Australian Shadows and British Fantasy Award-nominated author and editor, based in Derbyshire. She was awarded the British Fantasy Society ‘Legends of FantasyCon’ award in 2022.

Her first novel, Celeste, was published in February 2022 by Encyclopocalypse Publications. She was shortlisted for the British Fantasy Society Award for Best Short Story in 2006 (‘Can You See Me’), and Best Anthology in 2010 (Hellbound Hearts), 2012 (Mammoth Book of Ghost Stories by Women), 2019 (Wonderland) and 2023 (The Other Side of Never). Wonderland was also shortlisted for a Shirley Jackson award for Best Anthology.

Marie was on the British Fantasy Society Committee from 2001 to 2008, editing both Prism and Dark Horizons before becoming Chair in 2004, and worked on several FantasyCons over the years, sometimes as Chair. She also ran ChillerCon UK, which took place in Scarborough in May 2022. One further anthology (Death Comes at Christmas) is currently slated for release in October, 2024, with three more forthcoming for 2025 and 2026 beyond that and various further projects in the works. Marie is also Managing Editor of PS Publishing’s award-winning novella imprint, Absinthe Books.

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