About
Short bio
C.H. Pearce is a writer of horror-tinged speculative fiction, and an illustrator. As a writer, she has won a Ditmar Award and been shortlisted in the Brave New Weird and Aurealis Awards, and her short fiction has been published in Never Say Die, Cosmic Horror Monthly, and The Off-Season: An Anthology of Coastal New Weird. As an illustrator, she has won a Ditmar Award for book cover art, and has artwork in Lost Souls, Midnight Echo, and Literature and Composition. She lives in Canberra, Australia with her family and three pet rats. Find her work and links to social media on chpearce.net
Long bio
C.H. Pearce is a writer of horror-tinged speculative fiction, and an illustrator. As a writer, she has won a Ditmar Award and been shortlisted in the Brave New Weird and Aurealis Awards, and her short fiction has been published in Never Say Die, Cosmic Horror Monthly, and The Off-Season: An Anthology of Coastal New Weird. As an illustrator, she has won a Ditmar Award for book cover art, and has artwork in Lost Souls, Midnight Echo, and Literature and Composition.
She loves unsettling, genre-hopping speculative fiction with a dash of absurd humour, and her favourite subjects are corporate horror, doppelgängers, liminal spaces, anti-heroines, 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 and three pet rats 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 Britt Siess Creative Management.
Photo credit: Emily Davidson