Priya Sharma (born 30 December 1971) is a British fantasy and horror short story writer and novelist. Her works have won the British Fantasy Award, Shirley Jackson Award, and World Fantasy Award.
Personal life Sharma was born to an Indian father and an Anglo-Indian mother and grew up in North West England. She gained a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery at medical school and works full-time as a general practitioner on the Wirral Peninsula.
Awards and honors
Year Work Award Category Result Ref. 2015 Shirley Jackson Award Best Novelette 2016 British Fantasy Award Best Short Fiction 2018 All the Fabulous Beasts Shirley Jackson Award Best Single-Author Collection 2019 British Fantasy Award Best Collection Locus Award Best Collection Ormeshadow Shirley Jackson Award Best Novella British Fantasy Award Best Short Fiction 2020 Ormeshadow British Fantasy Award Best Novella 2022 Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire Foreign Short fiction Pomegranates Shirley Jackson Award Best Novella 2023 British Fantasy Award Best Novella World Fantasy Award Novella 2025 British Fantasy Award Best Short Fiction
Bibliography Novellas Ormeshadow, 2019, Tor Books: Pomegranates, 2022, PS Publishing:
Collections All the Fabulous Beasts, 2018, Undertow Publications:
Stories In the Garden, 2005 Sweetpea, 2005 Screaming Purple Psychosis, 2006 The Englishman, 2006 The Lady, Eve, 2007 The Last Man in Africa, 2009 The Indifferent Stars, 2009 The Soul of Stones, 2009 The Nature of Bees, 2010 The Bitterness of Apples, 2010 The Show, 2011 The Virgin's Tears, 2011 Lebkuchen, 2011 The Fox Maiden, 2011 The Orchid Hunters, 2011 Fish Skins, 2012 Pearls, 2012 The Ballad of Boomtown, 2012 Needlepoint, 2012 Lady Dragon and the Netsuke Carver, 2012 Rag and Bone, 2013, tor.com Thesea and Astaurius, 2013 After Mary, 2013 Egg, 2013 The Sunflower Seed Man, 2013 The Anatomist's Mnemonic, 2013 The Rising Tide, 2014 The Firebrand, 2014 The Absent Shade, 2015 The Red Vortex, 2015 Fabulous Beasts, 2015, tor.com Blonde, 2015 Grave Goods, 2016 Inheritance, or The Ruby Tear, 2016 The Crow Palace, 2017 Mercury, 2017 A Son of the Sea, 2018 Small Town Stories, 2018 Maw, 2018 My Mother's Ghosts, 2019 Feral, 2020 Mari Lwyd, 2021 The Beechfield Miracles, 2021 Papa Eye, 2022 Tales from Alexandria, 2022 The Ghost of a Flea, 2022 A Short History of My Mother, 2022
References
External links Priya Sharma Fiction author blog
Priya Sharma at tor.com