About
Marie O'Regan is an award-nominated writer and editor of horror and dark fantasy fiction, with short fiction published in many anthologies and magazines in the US, UK and Europe, as well as four collections, and one novel, Celeste. She has also edited or co-edited more than twenty anthologies, - details of which can be found on her website, marieoregan.net.
In 2022, she was awarded the British Fantasy Society 'Legends of FantasyCon' award. She was Chair of the British Fantasy Society from 2004 to 2008, and Co-Chair of the Horror Writers Association UK Chapter from 2015 to 2022, as well as Co-Chair of ChillerCon UK, which took place in May 2022.
In addition to Marie's writing and her work editing anthologies for various publishers (including Titan Books, Flame Tree Press, Simon and Schuster, Constable and Robinson/Little Brown, Running Press), Marie also undertakes freelance proofreading and editing work, both for various independent publishers over the years and for individual authors upon request.
Marie was commissioning editor for the British Fantasy Society's fiction magazine, Dark Horizons, and also their news magazine Prism at various points during her tenure on the BFS Committee (her last four years were as Chair), and she co-edited her first anthology, BFS: A Celebration, there. She also taught various creative writing courses for one of the UK's writing periodicals for fifteen years (for contractual reasons, Marie is unable to specify which one) and saw many of her students go on to become regularly published and, in some cases, win awards and competitions. She is also Managing Editor of PS Publishing's award-winning novella imprint, Absinthe Books.
A holder of two British Fantasy Awards, Marie's writing and editing has received nominations for the Australian Shadow Award, British Fantasy Award, and Shirley Jackson Award.