I’m looking for a publisher, so if anyone is interested, hit me up!įor my MFA I’ve just started on a dark fantasy about a transgender thief named Six who accidentally steals the wrong key and reignites a war between kingdoms. So far tales include feuding conjoined twins, a resurrected witch, a librarian discovering a vampiric grimoire, a hive-minded creature that reanimates the dead, the fountain of youth underneath a moldering Colorado sanitarium, and a corrupted youth minister who gets more than he bargained for after picking up a cultist. I’m crazy busy!Īs for what I’m working on now, I’ve almost finished a collection of short horror stories revolving around queer transgender and cisgender men. I also started my MFA and a teaching assistantship. I went to my first StokerCon, my debut novel, Parasite, was published, and my short story “Kill Your Darlings” was featured in Listen: The Sound of Fear. Visit his website at and follow him on Twitter is the latest in your world as a writer? Do you have any new writing news, upcoming projects, or other exciting professional news you’d like to share with our audiences at the HWA? He is currently working on his MFA in Creative Writing. Ridley lives in the Middle of Nowhere with his two dogs, a grumpy old snake, and a host of pet tarantulas.

His debut queer body horror novel, Parasite, is available now from Ninestar Press and Amazon. Ridley Harker is a gay, transgender author and editor from St.

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