Bibliography

Lee Murray ONZM is an author, editor, poet, essayist, and screenwriter from Aotearoa, and a third-generation Chinese New Zealander. With 40 titles to her credit, Lee is the winner of multiple Sir Julius Vogel (13), Australian Shadows (4), and Bram Stoker Awards (5), and is her country’s only recipient of the Shirley Jackson Award for psychological horror. Titles by Lee include military thriller series, the Taine McKenna Adventures, supernatural crime-noir trilogy The Path of Ra (with Dan Rabarts), WW1 novella Despatches, and short fiction collection, Grotesque: Monster Stories. She is the editor of twenty-one anthologies, among them Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women with Geneve Flynn (RDSP), Unquiet Spirits: Essays by Asian Women in Horror, with Angela Yuriko Smith, and women in horror poetry collection Under Her Eye with Lindy Ryan (BSB). Other works include non-fiction title Mark My Words: Read the Submission Guidelines and Other Self-editing Tips (with Angela Yuriko Smith), and several books for children. Lee’s short stories and poems have appeared in prestigious venues such as Weird Tales, Space &Time, and Grimdark Magazine, and her story “Māoriland Blue” was 2023 Doylean Honorée for Fiction. She is a Rhysling- and Pushcart-nominated poet, and an Elgin Award runner up. Her poem “Cheongsam” won her the 2021 Australian Shadows Award, and her prose poetry manuscript Fox Spirit on a Distant Cloud won the 2023 NZSA Laura Solomon Cuba Press Prize. A manuscript assessor, international literary judge (including current judge of the World Fantasy Awards), conference panellist and guest of honour, Lee is a former HWA Mentor of the Year, NZSA Honorary Literary Fellow, and a Grimshaw Sargeson Fellow. A third-generation Chinese New Zealander and the first writer of Asian descent to receive the New Zealand Prime Minister’s Award for Literary Achievement in Fiction, Lee lives in the sunny Bay of Plenty where she writes stories and poems from an office overlooking a cow paddock. Read more at https://www.leemurray.info/

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FICTION WORKS

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NOVELS/NOVELLAS
 
BATTLE OF THE BIRDS (Taramea) junior fantasy novel, 2011
Winner: Sir Julius Vogel Award Best Youth Novel, 2011
Listed in Sunday Star Times Best Books for Youth of 2011

A DASH OF REALITY (Oceanbooks) contemporary women’s novel, 2011
Frankfurt Book Fair (NZSA Selection)

MISPLACED (Leapy Sheep) YA contemporary novel, 2013 (with Creative NZ/NZSA mentor Graeme Lay)

CONSUMED in A Foreign Country (Random Static), A Caro and J Buchanan eds, 2010
Sir Julius Vogel Award Finalist for Best Novella, 2010

CAVE FEVER in Regeneration (Random Static), A Caro and J Buchanan eds, 2013
Winner: Sir Julius Vogel Award for Best Novella 2013

CONCLAVE SEVEN in Conclave: A Collection of Science Fiction and Fantasy, (Leapy Sheep) 2014

MIKA co-written with Piper Mejia (Paper Road Press), April 2015, and in print SHORTCUTS: TRACK 1 Dec 2015
First: SpecFicNZ Shortcuts Novella Competition, 2014

INTO THE MIST New Zealand speculative military thriller, April 2016, Cohesion; 2018 Severed Press.
International Bram Stoker Award Longlist for Superior Achievement in a Novel 2016
Australian Shadows Award Finalist for Best Novel, 2017
Winner: Sir Julius Vogel Award for Best Novel, 2016

INTO THE SOUNDS, New Zealand speculative military thriller, August 2018, Severed Press.
Winner: Sir Julius Vogel Award for Best Novel, 2018

INTO THE ASHES, New Zealand speculative military thriller, February 2019, Severed Press.
International Bram Stoker Award Nominee for Superior Achievement in a Novel, 2019
Sir Julius Vogel Award Finalist, 2019 (awards announced August 2020)

HOUNDS of the UNDERWORD: Bk 1 of THE PATH OF RA (with Dan Rabarts), RDSP (USA) July 2017
International Bram Stoker Award Longlist for Superior Achievement in a Novel 2017
Winner: Sir Julius Vogel Award for Best Novel, 2017

TEETH OF THE WOLF: Bk 2 of THE PATH OF RA (with Dan Rabarts), RDSP (USA) September 2018
Australian Shadows Award Finalist for Best Novel 2019

BLOOD OF THE SUN: Bk 3 of THE PATH OF RA (co-written with Dan Rabarts), RDSP (USA) 6 November 2020
Finalist in the 2021 Sir Julius Vogel Awards

DAWN OF THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE middle grade novel (IFWG Australia), October 2019, Spanish language version released in October 2022.

DESPATCHES, novella, Absinthe Books (PS Publishing UK), September 2023, Italian translation by Nicola Lombardi, forthcoming from Weird Book Italy. 
Finalist Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Long Fiction

INTO THE CLOUDED SKY, novella in Grotesque: Monster Stories, reprinted as standalone from Squabbling Sparrows Press, 2025. 

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COLLECTIONS

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GROTESQUE: MONSTER STORIES (Things in the Well Publishing, Australia), 24 July 2020, Re-released by Crossroad Press, July 2022, Italian translation by Nicola Lombardi, Weird Book Italy, 2024.
Winner international Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection, 2020
Finalist in New Zealand's 2021 Sir Julius Vogel Awards (Collected Works)
Finalist in the Imadjinn (Imaginarium) Awards (Collected Works)
Finalist in the Australian Shadows Awards (Collected Works)
Finalist in the Ladies of Horror Fiction Award 2021 for Heart Music (Short Fiction) 

PENNY DIVERS & OTHER STORIES (currently only available to newsletter subscribers)

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Forthcoming
INTO THE DISTANT CLOUDS, Taine McKenna collected short stories. Squabbling Sparrows Press, May 2025. 
 
SHORT FICTION / NOVELETTES
 
MAHI RANGIMARIE (Peaceful Pursuits) short story in Double Vision (Tauranga Writers), 2010

FORECAST FOR APRIL in Bravado 19, March 2010, reprinted 2017 in New Orbit Magazine, vol1.

FREEFALL (published online) 2011
Third: Franklin Writers Award, 2011
Finalist: Whakatane FOTL National Writing Competition, 2011

THE RED CARDIGAN on NSZA website, and also in Breeze, vol 2, 2012
Third: NZSA Inaugural Asian Short Story Award, 2012

HOPE IS THE THING WITH FEATHERS on website of NZ Royal Society, 2012
Finalist: Royal Society Manhire Prize for Creative Science Writing, 2012
Winner: Sir Julius Vogel Award Best Short Story 2012

 

SIX SECRETS (not currently in print)
Finalist: NZSA Inaugural Asian Short Story Award, 2012

DUCKS AND BUTTERFLIES (not currently in print)
Finalist: NZSA Asian Short Story Award, 2013

CON SOMME PASSIONE in Baby Teeth, Paper Road Press, 2013

PETER AND THE WOLF in Baby Teeth, Paper Road Press, 2013

TEACH YOUR CHILDREN WELL in Baby Teeth, Paper Road Press, 2013

INSIDE FERNDALE in SQ Mag, vol 10, 2014, also Star Quake Anthology Best of 2014
First: IFWG SQ Mag Story Quest International short story prize, 2013
Winner: Sir Julius Vogel Award Best Short Story, 2015

JAKEN HARVEST (not currently in print)
Second: Conclave After the War Competition, 2014

BELLS and THE CHRISTMAS PANTOMIME in Twisty Christmas Tales (Phantom Feather Press) 2014

THE CHINESE PEOPLE STREET (not currently in print)
Third: SpecFicNZ World War I Centenary Competition, 2014

The LESSON in Byline, vol 1, September 2015.

THE THIEF’S TALE in The Refuge Collection (SDP) Nov 2015.
Winner: Sir Julius Vogel Award Best Short Story, 2016

MARIE in Capricious Magazine, vol3, March 2016.

SELFIE in SQ Mag: Symbiosis, Edition 26, May 2016, reprinted in Italian in The Horror Show, Luigi Boccia & Nicola Lombardi (eds.) Weird Book, Italy, 2021
Australian Shadows Award Finalist for Best Short Story, 2017

RESTLESS in Snafu: Unnatural Selection, Geoff Brown and AJ Spedding (eds), Cohesion, 2017

HALLOWEEN PROM in Spooky Halloween Drabbles, Roy Booth and Jorges Reeves (eds), 2016

TRACKERS in Between the Tracks: Tales from the Ghost Train, Steve Dillon (ed), OzHorror, 2017

SANTA’S SURPRISE in Shades of Santa, Steve Dillon (ed), OzHorrorCon, 2017

PENNY DIVERS in Beneath the Waves: Tales from the Deep, Steve Dillon (ed) Things in the Well, 2018

BAIRD’S LEGACY part 1 in Cryptozoological Tales - Monstrous, Adrenalin Shots, April 2018

BAIRD’S LEGACY part 2 in Cryptozoological Tales - Monstrous, Adrenalin Shots, April 2018

DEAD END TOWN in Cthulhu Deep Down Under, vol2, Stevens, Sequiera, and Proposch (eds), IFWG, June 2018
Finalist: International Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Short Story
Ellen Datlow’s Recommended Reading List, 2019 — Best Horror of the Year Vol 11

MAUI’S HOOK in Kaiju Rising II, Nick Sharps and Alana Joli Abbott (eds), Outland Publications, Sept 2018

EDWARD’S JOURNAL in Cthulhu Aotearoa, Stevens Sequiera and Proposch (eds), IFWG Publishing, Sept 2018
Ellen Datlow’s Recommended Reading List, 2019 — Best Horror of the Year Vol 11

MAIDEN FLIGHT in 100-word Horrors Part 2, Kevin Kennedy (ed), A Kevin J Kennedy Production, 2019

PRESERVING JAR in 100-word Horrors Part 2, Kevin Kennedy (ed), A Kevin J Kennedy Production, 2019

LIFEBLOOD Grimdark Magazine, Issue #19, Adrian Collins (ed), June 2019.

OUT OF THE SHADOWS in The Monarchies of Mau: Tales of Excellent Cats, Melanie Meadors (ed), 2019

SELKIE LOVE flash fiction in Guilty Pleasures, Steve Dillon (ed), Things in the Well, Australia, 2019

MONSTER PARTY flash fiction in Guilty Pleasures, Steve Dillon (ed), Things in the Well, Australia, 2019

THE NEW BREED novelette in Blood, Brains, and Bullets, Chris McNally (ed), Screaming Banshee, 2019

THIS OTHER DOOR with Dan Rabarts, flash fiction in Shallow Waters 3, Joe Mynhardt (ed), Crystal Lake, 2019

LOSING FACE short story in Tales of the Lost, Eugene Johnson and Steve Dillon (eds), Things in the Well, 2019
Finalist in the 2020 Sir Julius Vogel Awards

PHOENIX CLAWS, short fiction, in Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women, Lee Murray & Geneve Flynn (eds.) Omnium Gatherum USA, September 2020

FRANGIPANI WISHES, short fiction, in Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women, Lee Murray & Geneve Flynn (eds.) Omnium Gatherum USA, September 2020

THE GOOD WIFE, short fiction in Weird Tales #364, Jonathan Maberry (ed), Nov 2020
Finalist in the 2021 Sir Julius Vogel Awards

DREAMTIME, with Nicola Lombardi, short fiction in The Best of Indie Horror, Kevin Kennedy (ed), KJKP, 2020. Reprinted in Italian in Dark and Weird Vol 3, Luigi Boccia & Nicola Lombardi (eds.) Weird Book, Italy, 2021.

AT MARATOTO POOL short fiction, in One of Us: A Tribute to Frank Michael Errington, Kenneth W Cain (ed.) Bloodshot Books, 15 Nov 2020.

THE WRECK OF THE TARTARUS, short story, in Relics, Wrecks, & Ruins, Aiki Flinthart (ed), Cat Press, 2021

INTO THE GEYSERLAND: A Taine McKenna Adventure, novella, in Contact, Chris McNally (ed), Screaming Banshee Press, Feb 2021

NIL BY MOUTH, short story, in Stitched Lips, Ken McGregor (ed.) Dragon Roost Press, March 2021.

WEEPING WATERS short fiction, in Fright Train, Tony Tremblay, Charles Rutledge and Scott Goudsward (eds.) Haverhill House, USA, October 2021

SEACHANGE short story in Like Sunshine After Rain, Heidi Ruby Miller (ed.) Raw Dog Screaming Press, July 2021

THE MOON GODDESS’S GRANDDAUGHTER, short story / prose-poem in Giving the Devil His Due, Rebecca Brewer (ed), The Pixel Project, September 2021

THE BLUEHAUL, short story in Midnight from Beyond the Stars, Ken Kinley (ed), Silver Shamrock Publishing, September 2021.

THE BONE EATER, short story in There is No Death, There are No Dead, Jess Landry and Aaron French (eds), Crystal Lake Publishing, September 2021.

NIGHTSHIFT in An Unholy Thirst: Fifteen Vampire Tales, edited by Cliff Biggers and Charles Rutledge, Pavanne Press, October 2021.

PERMANENT DAMAGE, short fiction, Attack of the 80s, Eugene Johnson (ed.), Raw Dog Screaming Press, November 2021, audio version on Tales to Terrify, December 2022, and in translation in Romanian in Galaxia 42/33 Dec 2022.
Winner of the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Short Fiction

THE MARTHA HOTEL: SUITE 101 flash fiction, In Professor Charlatan Bardot’s Travel Anthology to the Most (Fictional) Haunted Buildings in the Weird, Wild World (2021 edition) edited by Eric Guignard, Dark Moon Books, November 2021

DAUGHTERS OF THE BEAR in Shadow Atlas: New Stories of the Americas, Josh Viola, Hillary Dodge, and Carina Bisset (eds), Hex Publishing, November 2021.

HEART MUSIC, flash fiction, first published in Grotesque: Monster Stories, reprinted in Among the Headstones: Creepy Tales from the Graveyard, Rayne Hall (ed.) Rayne Hall Ltd, Bulgaria. 

ROCK-A-BYE BABY, short story (with Dan Rabarts) in Dark Deeds Down Under Volume 1, Craig Sisterson (ed.) Clan Destine Press, Australia, June 2022. 

MOONCAKE, short story in The Hideous Book of Hidden Horrors, Doug Murano (ed). Bad Hand Books, USA. June 2022.

HOTHOUSE CRUSH, short story in Dracula Unfanged, Chris Sequiera (ed), IFWG Publishing, August 2022.

THRALL short story in The King Must Fall, Adrian Collins and Mike Myers (eds). Grimdark, Australia, September 2022.

THE GHOST CRICKET, short story in Literally Dead: Thirteen Tales of Halloween Hauntings, Gaby Triana (ed). Alienhead Press, September 2022. 

KUPARA & TEKOTEKO, short story in Clamour and Mischief, Narelle Harris (ed.) Clan Destine Press, Australia, November 2022. 

THE HUNGRY BONES, short story in Damnation Games, Alan Baxter (ed.) Clan Destine Press, Australia, November 2022

HEART MURMURS, short fiction, in Strange Tales of Terror, Eugene Johnson (ed.), Independent Legions (Italy) December 2022, print versions releasing from Cemetery Dance, 2023.

THE MOTORCYCLE WIDOW, short story in Unknown Superheroes vs The Forces of Darkness, Steve Dillon and Will Jacques (eds.). Ghastly Door Press, May 2023

THE SEVEN YEAR WAR, short story in Never Wake, Time Meyer and Kenneth Cain (eds), CLP, Sept 2023.

SHOWTIME, short story in Shakespeare Unleashed, James Aquilone (ed.), Crystal Lake Publishing & Black Spot Books, 2023. Italian translation by Independent Legions, 2023

FOR EVERY SEASON, short story in Stories of the Reconvergence: All New Tales from the Expanded Universe (A Unioverse Anthology) edited by Angle Hodapp and Joshua Viola, Random Games, 2023.

MĀORILAND BLUE, novelette in the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Blue John Gap Project, edited by Nancy Holder and Margie Deck, October 2023.
Winner of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Society Honors for Excellence in Fiction and Poetry. 

THE THREE GIFTS, short story, in The Orange and Bee, Nike Sulway and Carina Bisset (eds.), April 2024

CYPRESS WHISPERS, short story in Bestiary of Blood: Modern Fables & Dark Tales, Jamal Hodge (ed.). Crystal Lake Publishing, 2024. 

FATHER’S LAST CHRISTMAS, short story in The Darkest Night, Lindy Ryan (ed.) Crooked Lane Press, July 2024.

THE REAL_TRENDS_JEN, short story, Weird Tales #369, Bram Stoker Awards issue, edited by Jonathan Maberry, June 2024.

SUMMER BONUS, short story, in Folk Horror, Paul Kane and Marie O’Regan (eds.) Flame Tree Press UK, 2024.
Ellen Datlow’s Best Horror of the Year, Vol 15.

GLOW: AN ORAL HISTORY, novelette, in Discontinue Until Death Ensues, Carol Gyzander and Anna Taborska (eds.) Flame Tree Press, UK, October 2024. 

GODDESS, short story, in Discontinue Until Death Ensues, Carol Gyzander and Anna Taborska (eds.) Flame Tree Press, UK, October 2024

BREAKOUT, short story in Combat Monsters, Henry Herz (ed.), Blackstone Publishing, 2024.

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Forthcoming
THE POPPY CLOUD in Silk & Sinew edited by Kristy Park Kulski. Bad Hand Books USA. May 2025.

THE CLEANSING, commissioned short story, TBA

HUSH short story in Coven of the East: Reclaiming Asian Women's Magical Histories edited by Angela Yuriko Smith & Pauline Chow. Authortunities, 2025.

ON THE PATH BLEEDING, commissioned short story, TBA

THE MALL short story in The Rack II, Tom Deady (ed.). TBA

ANTHOLOGIES

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WRITE OFF LINE: YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND (Oceanbooks) co-editor Piper Mejia, 2012

WRITE OFF LINE: TEENAGERS ARE AN ALIEN SPECIES (Tauranga Writers) co-editor Piper Mejia, 2013

BEYOND THIS AGE (Oceanbooks) co-editor Piper Mejia, 2013
Sir Julius Vogel Award Finalist Best Collected Work, 2013

BEYOND THIS STORY (Tauranga Writers) co-editor Piper Mejia, 2014

BABY TEETH: BITE-SIZED TALES OF TERROR (Paper Road Press) co-editor Dan Rabarts, 2013
Winner: Sir Julius Vogel Award Best Collected Work, 2013
Winner: Australian Shadows Award Best Edited Work, 2014

AT THE EDGE (Paper Road Press) co-editor Dan Rabarts, speculative fiction by NZ Australian writers, June 2016
Winner: Sir Julius Vogel Award Best Collected Work, 2016
Australian Shadows Award Finalist Best Edited Work, 2017

WRITE OFF LINE: ALTER EGO (Young NZ Writers) co-editor Grace Bridges, October 2017

TE KORERO AHI AKA (SpecFicNZ) co-editors Grace Bridges and Aaron Compton, 2018
Winner: Sir Julius Vogel Award Best Collected Work, 2018

TIMEGATE TO TOMORROW Grace Bridges and Lee Murray (eds), Young NZ Writers, 2018

HELLHOLE: AN ANTHOLOGY OF SUBTERRANEAN TERROR (Adrenaline Press, USA) 2018.
International Bram Stoker Award Finalist for Superior Achievement in an Anthology
Winner: Australian Shadows Award for Best Edited Work, 2019

TRICKTERS TREATS #3: SEVEN DEADLY SINS co-editor Marie O’Regan, Things in the Well, Australia, Oct 2019
Finalist: Australian Shadows Award for Best Edited Work, 2020

BREACH Vols 11 &12 guest editor, Breachzine, Australia, October & December 2019

SCARY TALES (Young NZ Writers), June 2020

BLACK CRANES (Omnium Gatherum, Raw Dog Screaming Press) co-editor Geneve Flynn, September 2020/2023
Winner international Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in an Anthology, 2020
Winner international Shirley Jackson Award for Edited Anthology, 2020
Locus Award Recommended Reading List, 2020
Aurealis Award Finalist for Best Horror Anthology
Australian Shadows Award Finalist 2021 for Best Edited Work
British Fantasy Award Finalist 2021 for Best Anthology
Parallax Award Honourable Mention

MIDNIGHT ECHO #15, Lee Murray editor, published by AHWA, November 2020.
Winner Australian Shadows Awards 2021 for Best Edited Work

WRITE OFF LINE: NOT THERE BUT SOMEWHERE (Young NZ Writers), Lee Murray (ed), June 2021

BETWEEN YOU AND ME:  CULTURE AND CONTEXT IN AOTEAROA, Lee Murray, Piper Mejia, and Jean Gilbert (eds) Rogue House Publishing, 2022. 

OF HORROR & HOPE, edited by Lee Murray and Angela Yuriko Smith for the HWA, 2022.

ASIAN GHOST SHORT STORIES, Flame Tree Press UK, February 2022

REMAINS TO BE TOLD: DARK TAES OF AOTEAROA, edited by Lee Murray, Clan Destine Press, October 2023. 
Winner Sir Julius Vogel Award for Best Collected Work 2023

Finalist for Australian Shadows Award 2023

UNDER HER EYE, poetry anthology, Lindy Ryan and Lee Murray (eds.), Black Spot Books, USA. 7 November 2023.

WINNER: Book Fest Award for Poetry and Collections 2024

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Forthcoming

THIS WAY LIES MADNESS fiction anthology edited by Lee Murray and Dave Jeffery. Flame Tree Press UK, October 2025

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POETRY 

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Collections

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TORTURED WILLOWS: BENT, BOWED, UNBROKEN with Christina Sng, Angela Yuriko Smith, and Geneve Flynn, Yuriko Publishing, October 2021. 
Winner international Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Poetry, 2021
Winner of Australian Shadows Award for Poetry for "cheongsam" by Lee Murray
Runner Up collection in the international Elgin Awards)
Finalist in Rhysling Awards with Lee’s poems orchid moon, exquisite, and Interview with a Goddess.

FOX SPIRIT ON A DISTANT CLOUD (prose poetry collection), The Cuba Press, April 2024
Winner Grimshaw Sargeson Fellowship 2021
Winner of 2023 NZSA Laura Solomon Cuba Press Prize
Finalist Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection

Finalist Sir Julius Vogel Award for Collected Word

Finalist Elgin Award for Poetry

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Forthcoming
OVERSIGHT with Carina Bissett, forthcoming illustrated collection from Running Wild Press, USA, March 2026. 

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Individual Poems

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COMET TEEN (poem) in Double Vision (Tauranga Writers), 2010

A SINGLE POINT, poem, in Byline, vol 4, Dec 2018

DEAR CHRISTINE poem in HWA Poetry Showcase VI, Stephanie Wytovich (ed), 2019

HOW TO CATCH AN EEL IN THE 70s poem in Byline vol 5, 2019

HELL PIGS AND OTHER FUTURES poem in Byline vol 5, 2019

SEASONAL GROWTH short fiction / prose poem in Infected, Steve Dillon (ed), Things in the Well, 2020

5 HAIKU poems in Infected, Steve Dillon (ed), Things in the Well, 2020

FOREVER MATES poem, performed by Brent Kelley on Destroy the Files podcast, episode #19, Sept 2020
also performed on SFPA Halloween Showcase. 

LESSONS FROM POE poem, Space and Time Magazine, Linda D Addison (ed), #137, 20 June 2020

EXPLORER, pantoum, in Space and Time Magazine, Linda D Addison (ed), December 2020.

RETOURNE, poem in HWA Poetry Showcase VII, Stephanie Wytovich, 2020

A CURATED GARDEN poem in Byline Vol 6, Tauranga Writers, November 2020

NEW YEAR, poem, in CBOP new year missive, 2021

PRESERVING JAR (Paradelle) in HWA Poetry Gallery, HWA Newsletter, April 2021.

AMERICAN NOCTURNE (Book spine poem) in HWA Poetry Gallery, HWA Newsletter, April 2021.

MESOZOIC, speculative poem in Nombono: An Anthology of Speculative Poetry, Akua Lezli Hope (ed), Sundress Publications, 2021.

orchid moon, horror poem in HWA Poetry Showcase VIII, Stephanie Wytovich (ed). HWA, 2021, also in the 2022 Rhysling Anthology, F.J Bergman and Brian U Garrison (eds.) 2022.

Conversations with my husband on a weekend caravanning in Rotorua, poem in Byline Vol 7, Tauranga Writers, Dec 2021. 

CURSED, sonnet in The Gargoylicon: Imaginings and Images of the Gargoyle in Literature and Art. Frank Coffman (ed.). Minds Eye Press (2022).

SHAMEFUL, body horror poem in Under Her Skin: Women in Horror Poetry Showcase, Lindy Ryan, and Toni Miller (eds), Black Spot Books, April 2022.

MAERO, in Hybrids: Misfits, Monsters, and Other Phenomena, edited by: Donald Armfield and Maxwell I. Gold, Hybrid Sequence Media, 2022. 

FURY, reprint poem, in Dwarf Stars, Adele Gardner and Greer Woodward (eds.), Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association, 2022. 

EXQUISITE in In Trouble, EF Schraeder (ed). Omnium Gatherum, October 2022. 

FOXGIRL, in Best Horror of the Year Vol 14, Ellen Datlow (ed.), Night Shade Books, December 2022.

A SINGLE STEP, terzanelle, in Trapped, A Dark Dozen Anthology, Candace Nola (ed.) Uncomfortably Dark Horror, November 2022

STATUS TANSCRIPT, poem, in A Woman Unbecoming, Rachel Brune (ed.) Crone Girls Press, August 2022.
Finalist Rhysling Awards

SEALING FATE, poem, in Byline Vol 8, Tauranga Writers Publishing, October 2022. 

COLD STORAGE poem in Eye to the Telescope #50, edited by Claire McNerney, SFPA October 2023

RED WIND, featured poem in the HWA Poetry Showcase Vol X, edited by Angela Yuriko Smith, 2023

VESSEL, poem in Qualia Nous, edited by Michael Bailey, Written Backwards Publishing, 2024.

VIVA poem in Byline Vol 9, Tauranga Writers, Dec 2023

NON-BINARY poem in Byline Vol 9, Tauranga Writers, Dec 2023

GENUFLECTION poem in Byline Vol 9, Tauranga Writers, Dec 2023

NEW YEAR BANQUET poem in Wok Hei, Aphrodisiac Poems and Recipes in the Year of the Wood Dragon, Renee Liang (ed). Monster Fish Publishing, February 2024. 

TEMPTATION poem in in The Orange and Bee, Nike Sulway and Carina Bisset (eds.) March 2024

LITTLE MOTHER poem in Mother Knows Best, edited by Lindy Ryan, Black Spot Books, 2024

THE SHELLBACK’S TALE narrative poem in Where the Silent Ones Watch, edited by James Chambers Hippocampus Press, 2024

CONJURING poem in Space & Time, Fall 2024

WITHERING poem in Discontinue Until Death Ensues, Carol Gyzander and Anna Taborska (eds.) Flame Tree Press, UK, October 2024

POINT ZERO poem in Dark Spores: Stories We Tell After Midnight 4, edited by Rachel Brune and Carol Gyzander, Crone Girls Press, 2024.

PLAYERS, poem in HWA Poetry Showcase Vol XI, edited by Maxwell Ian Gold, 2024

EVENING MILKING poem in Byline Vol 10, Tauranga Writers, Dec 2024

FOUR HAIKU in Byline Vol 10, Tauranga Writers, Dec 2024

THROUGH THE FOREST, poem in Byline Vol 10, Tauranga Writers, Dec 2024

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Forthcoming
CHARCOAL SKIES in Silk & Sinew edited by Kristy Park Kulski. Bad Hand Books USA. May 2025.

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NON-FICTION WORKS

 

Books

MARK MY WORDS: Read the Submission Guidelines & Other Self-editing Tips for Writers by Lee Murray and Angela Yuriko Smith, Yuriko Publishing, May 2020.

GOAL SETTING (LITERALLY) workbook by Lee Murray, Brain Jar Press, 2022.

UNQUIET SPRITS: ESSAYS BY ASIAN WOMEN IN HORROR edited by Lee Murray and Angela Yuriko Smith, Black Spot Books, USA, Feb 2023
Finalist Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Long Non-Fiction
Finalist Indies Award for Non-Fiction 

Essays

WRITING FROM A DARK PLACE essay in Headlands: New Stories of Anxiety, Naomi Arnold (ed) VUP, 2019.

OF HOME AND HERITAGE, essay in Grimdark Magazine #28, Adrian Collins and Mike Myers (eds), Australia, Oct 2021. 

LESSONS FROM HORACE AND ARISTOTLE, essay in Success Mindsets, Alinka Rutkowska (ed.), Leaders Press, October 2021

I DON'T READ HORROR (& OTHER WEIRD TALES), essay in Interstellar Flight Magazine / Medium, October 2022
Winner Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Short Non-fiction
Australian Shadows Award finalist for Non-fiction

DISPLACED SPIRITS: GHOSTS OF THE DIASPORA in Unquiet Spirits: Essays by Asian Women in Horror, Lee Murray and Angela Yuriko Smith (eds.), Black Spot Books, Feb 2023
Finalist Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Short Non-fiction
Finalist Australian Shadows Award for Non-fiction

MARY SHELLEY: PANDEMICS, ISOLATION AND WRITING, essay in A Vindication of Monsters, Claire Fitzpatrick (ed), IFWG Australia, October 2023.

HORROR’S REAL-LIFE FINAL GIRLS, essay in Interstellar Flight Magazine / Medium, March 2024

THE CURSE OF CULTURE AND CONTEXT: REFLECTIONS ON MADNESS IN SPECULATIVE FICTION, essay for Speculative Insight, August 2024.

COMMENTARY in Shadows and Verse: Classic Dark Poems with Celebrity Commentary, Jonathan Maberry (ed.), Wordfire Press, 2024. 

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Forthcoming

EDITING WITH PURPOSE: CAUSE AND COMMUNITY essay in Collective: The Collaborative Art of Anthologies, Dan Coxon and Pete Sutton (eds.). TBA

FOX GIRL: WHOSE SKULL IS THIS? essay for Speculative Insight, October 2025. 

ZHIGUAI: TELLING STRANGE TALES, essay, edited by Jonathan Maberry & Lisa Kastner, TBC. 

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​Forewords / Introductory Essays 

Foreword in To Hell and Back edited by Joe Mynhardt, Hellbound Books, March 2024.
Foreword in The Dark Between the Twilight by Jamal Hodge, Crystal lake Publishing, 2024.
Foreword in Almost Normal Horror by Christine Morgan, Madness House Press, 2022.
Foreword in Lions, Tigers, & Weres fiction collection by Ken MacGregor, Dragon's Roost Press, 2022
Foreword in Red Gear 9 (Odd Men Out Bk2) novel by Matt Betts, Raw Dog Screaming Press, 2021
Foreword in Daughters of Darkness, anthology by Theresa Derwin, Stephanie Ellis, Ruschelle Dillon & Alyson Faye, Black Angel Press, 2021
Introduction in Infectious Hope: Poems of Hope and Resilience from the Pandemic, a poetry collection edited by Silvia Cantón Rondoni, IFWG, 2021
Introduction in The Better Sister and Other Stories fiction collection by Piper Mejia, Breach Publishing, 2020
Foreword in the re-release of Steel Victory, Bk 1 to the Steel Empires series by JL Gribble, Dog Star Books, originally published 2015.

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PRODUCED SCREENPLAYS

Grafted feature film, co-written with Mia Maramara, Hweiling Ow, and Sasha Rainbow. A Propaganda/Fluroblack Production. Released August 2024.