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Loren Rhoads's Biography

Member Info

San Francisco
Jan 2008

For 10 years, I edited the nonfiction magazine Morbid Curiosity. Scribner published Morbid Curiosity Cures the Blues in 2009. Now I'm blogging about graveyards as travel destinations at Cemetery Travel (http://cemeterytravel.com). A collection of my cemetery travel essays called Wish You Were Here will be out soon.

My short fiction has appeared in Wily Writers, Not One of Us, Cemetery Dance, City Slab, etc., and in the chapbooks Ashes & Rust and The Paramental Appreciation Society. I was also part of a four-woman anthology called Sins of the Sirens: Fourteen Tales of Dark Desire, alongside Maria Alexander and Mehitobel Wilson.

Influences

Ray Bradbury, Annie Dillard, Brian Hodge, Dion Fortune, Neil Gaiman, Sherwin Nuland

Upcoming Works

Wish You Were Here: Postcards from Cemeteries

The Dangerous Type

The Death of Memory

Agents

Hannah Brown Gordon, Foundry Literary + Media

Recommended Links

Publishers

Scribner, Dark Arts Books, Automatism Press

Interests & Hobbies

Cemetery Travel, cemeteries, gravestones, San Francisco history, psychic detectives, Morbid Curiosity magazine, Morbid Curiosity Cures the Blues, collecting stamps, collecting postcards, stereoopticon cards, travel