Angela Yuriko Smith

Angela Yuriko Smith is a Ryukyuan-American (also described as Shimanchu-American) writer and publisher. Her publishing house is named Yuriko, which was her grandmother's given name.[1] She has won two Bram Stoker Awards.[2]

As of 2025 she is president of the international Horror Writers Association.[3]

Writing

Smith's 2024 novel Inujini (ISBN 979-8884457614) is a fictionalised account of events around the Battle of Okinawa.[4]

Her 2024 book How to Be an Authortunist (ISBN 9781959048183 has been described as "a catchy, creative how-to on writing and publishing".[5]

Awards

Smith's Tortured Willows: Bent. Bowed. Unbroken., co-authored with Geneve Flynn, Lee Murray, and Christina Sng, won the 2021 Bram Stoker Award for Best Poetry Collection.[6][7]

She won the 2021 Bram Stoker Award for Best Short Non-Fiction for her piece "Horror Writers: Architects of Hope" in issue 55 of The Sirens Call, Halloween 2021.[6][7]

Her Bitter Suites was nominated for the 2018 Bram Stoker Award for Best Long Fiction,[8] and her Unquiet Spirits: Essays by Asian Women in Horror, co-edited with Lee Murray, was nominated for the 2023 Bram Stoker Award for Best Non-Fiction.[9]

References

  1. ^ "About". Yuriko Publishing. Retrieved September 29, 2025.
  2. ^ "Smith, Angela Yuriko". The Bram Stoker Awards. Retrieved September 29, 2025.
  3. ^ "Board of Trustees & Senior Staff". horror.org. Horror Writers Association. Retrieved September 29, 2025.
  4. ^ "Inujini by Angela Yuriko Smith". booklife.com. Book Life. Retrieved October 10, 2025.
  5. ^ "How to Be an Authortunist by Angela Yuriko Smith | BookLife". booklife.com. Book Life. Retrieved October 10, 2025.
  6. ^ a b Armstrong, Vanessa (May 17, 2022). "Congratulations to the 2021 Bram Stoker Awards Winners!". Reactor. Retrieved September 29, 2025.
  7. ^ a b "2021 Stoker Awards Winners". Locus Online. May 15, 2022. Retrieved September 29, 2025.
  8. ^ "2018 Bram Stoker Awards Winners & Nominees". The Bram Stoker Awards. Retrieved September 29, 2025.
  9. ^ "The 2023 Bram Stoker Awards Winners". The Bram Stoker Awards. Retrieved September 29, 2025.
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