About

My name is Lynda E. Rucker.  I write stories.  They often seem to be about people who are lost, or longing for something that is just out of their reach. I don’t do that on purpose; I just follow the words and the images where they take me. I write about places I have known and people I have known or been and things I dream up inside my own head. How much of what writers tell us is from their own lives and how much is pure imagination? It’s a secret. Sometimes it’s hard to tell.

My fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in such places as The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Black Static, Postscripts, and Supernatural Tales. (Full fiction bibliography here.) I’ve written a YA dark fantasy novel about bereavement, family secrets, and the great god Pan. (At least, those are some of the things I think it’s about. But books are always about different things for different people, aren’t they?) I’m currently hard at work on a supernatural novel for adults.

I have an MA in English with a focus on medieval literature; I wrote a thesis about Arthurian romance, mystics, feminism, the medieval construction of the self, and a whole bunch of other stuff. It was fun. I also love history, space, languages, food, craft beers, science, soccer, comics, and film. I am at my very happiest when I’m traveling or writing down stories.