G.G. Silverman is a first-generation Italian-American writer. Her short fiction has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best American Short Fiction, and the O. Henry Prize, and has been adapted for short film with a Hollywood debut. Her work has also appeared in Bram Stoker Award-nominated Women in Horror anthologies, and has been a finalist for the Speculative Literature Foundation’s Diverse Writers Grant, as well as the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund Award for feminist writing. The Blood Year Daughter, a finalist for numerous awards, is her debut short story collection.