Gemma Files is a Canadian horror writer, journalist, and film critic. Her short story, "The Emperor's Old Bones", won the International Horror Guild Award for Best Short Story of 1999. Five of her short stories were adapted for the television series The Hunger.
Biography
Gemma Files was born in 1968 in London, England, to the actors Elva Mai Hoover and Gary Files.[citation needed] Her family relocated to Toronto in 1969, where she resides today.[citation needed] Files graduated from Ryerson Polytechnic University in 1991 with a degree in journalism. She published her first horror fiction, "Fly-by-Night" in 1993.[1] Various freelance assignments eventually led to a continuing position with entertainment periodical Eye Weekly, where she gained local repute as an insightful commentator on the horror genre, independent films and Canadian cinema. [citation needed] She was listed by Cameron Bailey of NOW as one of the Top 10 Coolest People in Canadian Cinema for 1996.[citation needed] She has also written reviews for www.film.com and for the Canadian horror magazine Rue Morgue.[citation needed]
Her book, We Will All Go Down Together (about a coven of witches and changelings), was given a favorable review by NPR.[4]
Her novel Experimental Film (2015) won the Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novel and the Sunburst Award for Best Canadian Speculative Fiction (Novel) in 2016.
Files was married in 2002 to science fiction and fantasy author Stephen J. Barringer (with whom she co-wrote "'each thing i show you is a piece of my death"").[1] They have one son, Callum Jacob, born in September 2004.[citation needed]
Bibliography
Kissing Carrion: Stories, Prime Books/Wildside Press, 2003. ISBN1-894815-63-7
The Worm in Every Heart: Stories, Prime Books/Wildside Press, 2004. ISBN1-894815-76-9
The Hexslinger series:
A Book of Tongues: Volume One in the Hexslinger Series, ChiZne Publications, 2010. ISBN978-0-9812978-6-6.
A Rope of Thorns: Volume Two in the Hexslinger Series, ChiZine Publications, 2011. ISBN978-1-926851-14-3.
A Tree of Bones: Volume Three in the Hexslinger Series, ChiZine Publications, 2012. ISBN978-1926851570
The Hexslinger Omnibus (eBook Edition), ChiZine Publications, 2013, ASIN B00EXOT72Q (contains three new short stories)
We Will All Go Down Together: Stories of the Five-Family Coven, ChiZine Publications, 2014 ISBN978-1771482011