Allister Nelson

Bio: Allister Nelson (she/her) is a multiple Pushcart Prize-nominated author whose work has appeared in The British Fantasy Society, Apex Magazine, ILLUMEN, Eternal Haunted Summer, Renewable Energy World, Frontiers in Health Communication, The National Science Foundation, Luna Station Quarterly, Prismatica Press, Coffin Bell, FunDead Publications, and many other venues. Her work has been translated internationally into Polish and Spanish, curated by Kevin J. Anderson, nominated for Poland's top fantasy prize, and appeared in anthologies alongside Graham Masterston, CMarie Fuhrman, Bill Willingham, Jane Yolen, Sebastien de Castell, and Alan Dean Foster. By day, she's a D.C.-adjacent Communications and Marketing Nut ("Allie's a Natural Washingtonian: a mile wide and an inch deep"), proud staff writer at Pride With a Bite, Editor of the International Child Art Foundation and ChildArt Magazine, and senior technical and science writer. By night, she dabbles in prose, poems, Greco-Roman found feminism graphic novels, and illustrations. In her spare time, Allie is a wanderer of graveyards, weaver of fables, caster of literary aspersions, and gazer at alien starships. She'd like to kiss Mothman one day.

Short Stories, Poetry, & Podcasts (Oh My!):

Fiction:

"And Satan Found the Son of God Comely" - Queer Gaze Mag #3 - Queer Monsterx - 2025

"Ashmedai; or, The Devil on Three Sticks" (Novella) - Bewildering Stories - 2025

"Belladonna" - Twisted Horrors Anthology - 2025

"The Annunciation of Appalachian Mary" - Blood + Honey - 2025

"Sinew Soup" - Smitten Land #2 - Resurrection (Laughing Man House) - 2025

"Your Voice Like Silver" - We Bite Back - Pride Charity Anthology of Queer Horror (Pride With a Bite Press) - 2025

"A Toast to All Our Hells" - Not Ghosts, But Spirits Vol. 5 (Querencia Press) - 2025

"Nectar" - A Bite of Pride eZine (Pride With a Bite Press) - 2025

"Nosferatu Was King When I Was a Girl-Child" - 42 Stories Anthology Presents: Book of 42² [featuring my favorite children's author, Jane Yolen] - 2024

"Leaves of Silver" - There's a Haint in That There Holler - Appalachian Horror Hurricane Helene Charity Anthology (Laughing Man House Publishing) - 2024

"Tex Mex" - Enheduanna Journal Vol. 7 - 2024

"Ashmedai; or, The Devil on Three Sticks" - Anthologies of the Damned: Library of Madness (Treeshaker) - 2024

"My Tippet, Only Tulle" - Carmina Magazine - 2024

"The Cold One" - Stories in the Key of Tull - Tales from the Wood: A Jethro Tull Anthology (Alpha Mercs) - 2024

"In a Garden, Bitter" - Horror Sleaze Trash - 2024

"The Stone Flower" (Novella) - The Pink Hydra - 2024

"Life-in-Death" - Kaidankai - 2024

"The Keeper of the Keys" - Skin Deep Anthology by Dark Rose Press - 2024

"Ibis" - Pere Ube - 2024

"Gambling With Winter" - The Fables Next Door (Critical Blast Publishing) [featuring my favorite comic creator of all time, Bill Willingham, and original Star Wars novelist Alan Dean Foster!] - 2024

"Rumpelstiltskin's Girl" - Pere Ube - 2024

"Beast Charming" - Exquisite Death - 2024

"My Tippet, Only Tulle" - Forbidden Trails Polish Charity Anthology (https://www.zapomnianesny.pl/zakazane-szlaki/) [debuting in Polish, translated by Emilian Wojnowski, featuring such luminaries as Graham Masterson] - 2024 (Nominated for a Golden Bone, Poland's Top Fantasy Prize)

"The Witchfather" - Bewildering Stories - 2024

"The Malachite Casket" - Pere Ube - 2024

"The Thing from the Well" - A Frolic of Fairies Anthology (West Avenue Publishing) - 2024

"Bathsheba's Lament" - Pere Ube (Valentine's Day) - 2024

"Earth Girls Aren't Easy" - Pere Ube - 2024

"And Lilith Sewed the Seam" - Luna Station Quarterly - 2024

"Ashmedai and the Hairdresser" - Metaworker - 2024 (Pushcart Prize Nominee)

"The Cold One" - Bewildering Stories - 2024

"The Claiming" in "Apocalyptales" - Wicked Shadow Press - 2024

"Honey Like Sin" and "Xxx" - Touch of Sin Anthology by Dark Rose Press - 2024

"Wax" - ev0ke - 2023 (out of print)

"And Lilith Sewed the Seam" - Prismatica Press - 2023