About
Short bio
C.H. Pearce is an illustrator and a writer of horror-tinged speculative fiction based in Canberra, Australia. As an illustrator, she has won a Ditmar Award for book cover art for in the aftermath and has artwork in Lost Souls, Midnight Echo, and Literature and Composition. As a writer, she has won a Ditmar Award and been shortlisted for the Aurealis and Brave New Weird Awards, and her short fiction has been published in Never Say Die anthology, Cosmic Horror Monthly, The Off-Season: An Anthology of Coastal New Weird, and more. Find links to her portfolio, bibliography, print shop and social media on chpearce.net
Long bio
C.H. Pearce is an illustrator and a writer of horror-tinged speculative fiction. As an illustrator, she has won a Ditmar Award for book cover art for in the aftermath and has artwork in Lost Souls, Midnight Echo, and Literature and Composition. As a writer, she has won a Ditmar Award and been shortlisted for the Aurealis and Brave New Weird Awards, and her short fiction has been published in Never Say Die anthology, Cosmic Horror Monthly, The Off-Season: An Anthology of Coastal New Weird, and more.
She loves unsettling, genre-hopping speculative fiction with a dash of absurd humour, and her favourite subjects are corporate horror, doppelgängers, liminal spaces, antiheroines, communication failures, anomalous architecture, and creepy-crawlies. She loves painting all of the above, and specialises in book cover art and illustration in watercolour and mixed media. Born in Wagga Wagga, she lives with her family in Canberra, Australia.
She has a Graduate Diploma in Writing and Editing from the University of Canberra, a background in history and archives, and regularly judges in the Aurealis and Australasian Shadows Awards. She received a mentorship with the Australasian Horror Writers Association (AHWA) in 2022, and was shortlisted in Publishable in 2023. She is a member of the SFWA and HWA.
She's currently on submission with her debut novel. Find links to her portfolio, bibliography, print shop and social media on chpearce.net
As a writer, she is represented by Carleen Geisler at P.S. Literary.
Photo credit: Emily Davidson