About
Short bio
C.H. Pearce is an artist and an Aurealis and Brave New Weird Award-nominated and Ditmar Award-winning writer of horror-tinged speculative fiction from Canberra, Australia. Her short fiction has been published in Body of Work anthology, Cosmic Horror Monthly, The Off-Season: An Anthology of Coastal New Weird, and more. Find her work and links to social media on chpearce.net
Long bio
C.H. Pearce is an artist and an Aurealis and Brave New Weird Award-nominated and Ditmar Award-winning writer of horror-tinged speculative fiction. Her short fiction has been published in Body of Work 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. 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, and a background in history and archives. She received a mentorship with the Australasian Horror Writers Association (AHWA) in 2022, and was shortlisted in Publishable in 2023. Her hobbies include fan art, for which she's thrice won a Ditmar Award for Best Fan Artist. She is a member of the SFWA and HWA.
She is currently on submission with her debut novel, set in the same world as "Down the Hatch" in Cosmic Horror Monthly, and "Dualhaven" in The Off-Season: An Anthology of Coastal New Weird. Find her work and links to social media on chpearce.net
She is represented by Carleen Geisler at ArtHouse Literary.
Photo credit: Emily Davidson