Catriona Ward

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Catriona Ward is an American-born British horror novelist. Her work has earned a number of accolades, including three British Fantasy Awards and a Shirley Jackson Award.

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Biography Catriona Ward was born to English parents in Washington, D.C. Due to her father's work as an international economist, the family moved around and she grew up all over the world, including in the United States, Kenya, Madagascar, Yemen, and Morocco. Dartmoor was the one place the family returned to on a regular basis.

Ward attended Bedales School and went on to study English at St Edmund Hall, Oxford. Ward initially worked as an actor based in New York.

When she returned to London she worked on her first novel while writing for a human rights foundation until she left to take an MA in creative writing from the University of East Anglia. That novel, Rawblood (distributed in the United States as The Girl from Rawblood), was published in 2015.

Now she writes novels and short stories, and reviews for various publications. Ward won the August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel in 2016 at the British Fantasy Awards for Rawblood and again in 2018 for Little Eve, making her the first woman to win the prize twice. Little Eve also went on to win the prestigious Shirley Jackson Award for best novel. Her next gothic thriller, The Last House on Needless Street, was published through Viper Books (an imprint of Serpent's Tail) in March 2021, and Tor Nightfire (Tor Books) in the US, in September 2021. Andy Serkis and Jonathan Cavendish’s The Imaginarium has optioned film rights to the book.

Ward lives in London and Devon, England.

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Awards Among her literary awards, Catriona Ward is a 3-time winner of the August Derleth (best Horror Novel) Award of the British Fantasy Award.

Rawblood	2016 British Fantasy Award	Horror Novel (August Derleth Award)
	2016 Authors' Club Best First Novel Award
Little Eve	2018 Shirley Jackson Award	Novel
	2019 British Fantasy Award	Horror Novel (August Derleth Award)
The Last House on Needless Street	2021 Goodreads Choice Awards	Horror	/ref>
	2021 Ladies of Horror Fiction Award	Novel
	2022 Kitschies	Red Tentacle (Best Novel)
	2022 British Fantasy Award	Horror Novel (August Derleth Award)	/ref>
	2022 British Book Awards	Page-turner of the Year
	2022 World Fantasy Award	Novel	/ref>
Sundial	2022 Bram Stoker Award	Novel	/ref>
	2022 Goodreads Choice Awards	Horror
	2023 International Thriller Writers Awards	Hardcover Novel
	2023 Locus Award	Horror Novel	/ref>
	2023 British Fantasy Award	Horror Novel (August Derleth Award)	/ref>
Looking Glass Sounds	2024 World Fantasy Award	Novel	/ref>
	2024 British Fantasy Award	Horror Novel (August Derleth Award)	/ref>

Ward has also won the 2022 Sky Arts Awards "The Times Breakthrough Award" for Literature

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Notes

"2018" is the listed award year for titles eligible; the ceremony was 2019

"2021" is the listed award year for titles eligible; the ceremony was 2022

"2022" is the listed award year for titles eligible; the ceremony was 2023

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Bibliography

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Novels

• Catriona Ward (2026). 9780297609643, Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ISBN 9780297609643
• Catriona Ward (2026). 9780297609674, Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ISBN 9780297609674
• Catriona Ward (2026). 9781788166164, Viper. ISBN 9781788166164
• Catriona Ward (2026). 9781250812681, Tor Books. ISBN 9781250812681
• Catriona Ward (2026). 9781250860026, Tor Books. ISBN 9781250860026

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American editions

• Catriona Ward (2026). 9781492637424, Sourcebooks Landmark. ISBN 9781492637424

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Short fiction

"Sentinel"	(2026). 9781785655531, Titan Books. ISBN 9781785655531
"Lula-Belle"	(2026). 9781785657948, Titan Books. ISBN 9781785657948
"Slipper"	(2026). 9781913038441, Black Shuck Books. ISBN 9781913038441

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External

• Catriona Ward on GoodReader
• Catriona Ward at Fantastic Fiction
• Profile at Macmillan Publishers
• Profile at Weidenfeld & Nicolson
• Profile at Audible
• Reviews of Works by Publishers Weekly
• Reviews by Ward on Literary Review

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