Cassandra Khaw (born 31 August 1984) is a Malaysian writer of horror and science fiction. They also create video games and tabletop games, and formerly wrote about them as a games and tech journalist.
Cassandra Khaw | |
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Born | Zoe Khaw Joo Ee August 31, 1984 |
Nationality | Malaysian |
Biography edit
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Cassandra Khaw was born in Malaysia on 31 August 1984 as Zoe Khaw Joo Ee. They work as a horror and science fiction writer for video games, tabletop RPGs, short stories and novels. Their articles and stories have been published in such magazines as Tor.com, Clarkesworld, Fireside Fiction, Uncanny Magazine, and Nature. Their video game writing appears in Eurogamer, Ars Technica, The Verge and Engadget. Khaw works for Ubisoft as a scriptwriter.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7] Khaw has stated they use they/them pronouns.[8]
Awards and nominations edit
Year | Work | Award | Category | Result | Ref. |
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2017 | Hammers on Bone | British Fantasy Award | Best Novella | Nominated | [9] |
Locus Award | Best Novella | Nominated | [10] | ||
2018 | Food of the Gods | Best Horror Novel | Nominated | [11] | |
2021 | Nothing but Blackened Teeth | Bram Stoker Award | Best Long Fiction | Nominated | [12] |
Shirley Jackson Award | Best Novel | Nominated | [13] | ||
2022 | British Fantasy Award | Best Horror Novel (The August Derleth Award) | Nominated | [14] | |
Ignyte Award | Best Novella | Nominated | [15] | ||
World Fantasy Award | Best Novella | Nominated | [16] | ||
The All-Consuming World | Locus Award | Best First Novel | Nominated | [17] | |
Breakable Things | Bram Stoker Award | Best Fiction Collection | Won | [18][19] | |
Shirley Jackson Award | Best Single-Author Collection | Nominated | [20] | ||
2023 | British Fantasy Award | Best Collection | Nominated | [21] | |
Locus Award | Best Collection | Nominated | [22] | ||
World Fantasy Award | Best Collection | Nominated | [23] |
Bibliography edit
Novels edit
- The All-Consuming World (2021)[25]
- The Dead Take the A Train (with Richard Kadrey) (2023)[26]
- Critical Role: Bells Hells–What Doesn't Break (2024) [Upcoming][27][28]
Gods & Monsters: Rupert Wong edit
- Rupert Wong, Cannibal Chef (2015)
- Rupert Wong and the Ends of the Earth (2017)
- The Last Supper Before Ragnarok (2019)
- Food of the Gods (2017)
Anthologies edit
- Southeast Asian Urban Anthologies
- Flesh: A Southeast Asian Urban Anthology (2016) with Angeline Woon
- A Darker Shade: New Stories of Body Horror from Women Writers (2023)
Chapbooks edit
- Bearly a Lady (2017)
Born to the Blade edit
- Baby Shower (2018)
- Dreadnought (2018)
Persons Non Grata edit
- Hammers on Bone (2016)
- A Song for Quiet (2017)
Collections edit
- Breakable Things (2022)
Short fiction edit
- Disconnect (2014)
- What the Highway Prefers (2015)
- Red String (2015)
- An Ocean of Eyes (2015)
- In the Rustle of Pages (2015)
- Her Pound of Flesh (2015)
- The Man Who Buys Giggles (2015)
- When We Die on Mars (2015)
- Clown Shoes (2016)
- Every Instance of You (2016)
- The Games We Play (2016)
- Breathe (2016)
- Some Breakable Things (2016)
- Speak (2016)
- The Price of Small Joys (2016)
- Degrees of Beauty (2016)
- And in Our Daughters, We Find a Voice (2016)
- For the Things We Never Said (2016)
- Hungry Ghosts (2016)
- What to Do When It's Nothing but Static (2017)
- Goddess, Worm (2017)
- The Ghost Stories We Tell Around Photon Fires (2017)
- Radio Werewolf (2017)
- The Day They Found the Train (2017)
- Saudade (2017)
- Bearly a Lady (2017)
- Custom-Made (2017)
- I Built This City for You (2017)
- Masterclass (2017)
- These Deathless Bones (2017)
- The Truth That Lies Under Skin and Meat (2017)
- Degrees of Ellision (2017)
- Don't Turn on the Lights (2017)
- Kiss, Don't Tell (2017)
- A Secret of Devils (2017)
- Landmark (2017)
- The Quiet Like a Homecoming (2018)
- A Priest of Vast and Distant Places (2018)
- You Do Nothing but Freefall (2018) with A. Maus
- She Who Hungers, She Who Waits (2018)
- How the Spider Got Her Legs (2018)
- Four Revelations from the Rusalka Ball (2018)
- Recite Her the Names of Pain (2018)
- And Was Jerusalem Builded Here? (2018)
- Shooting Iron (2018) with Jonathan L. Howard
- Bargains by the Slant-Light (2018)
- Monologue by an unnamed mage, recorded at the brink of the end (2018)
- Nepenthe (2019)
- What We Have Chosen to Love (2019)
- Mighty Are the Meek and the Myriad (2019)
- Nothing But Blackened Teeth (2021)
- The Salt Grows Heavy (2023)
Poems edit
- Protestations Against the Idea of Anglicization (2017)
- My Mama (2017)
- Apathetic Goblin Nightmare Woman (2017)
- Found Discarded: A Love Poem, Questionably Addressed. (2018)
- Octavia's Letter to Marcus Anthony on the Discovery of His Faithlessness (2018)
- A Letter from One Woman to Another (2019)
- Instructions for When You've Endured as Much as You Can (2019)
Tabletop games edit
- Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft (writer, Wizards of the Coast, 2021)[29]
- Critical Role: Call of the Netherdeep (writer, Wizards of the Coast, 2022)[30]
Video games edit
- She Remembered Caterpillars (2017)[31]
- Where the Water Tastes Like Wine (2018)[32]
- Sunless Skies (2019)[33]
- Falcon Age (2019)[34]
- Hyper Scape (2020)[35]
- Wasteland 3 (2020)[36]
- Gotham Knights (2022)[35]
- World of Horror (co-writer, 2023)[37]
References edit
External links edit
- Cassandra Khaw at Library of Congress, with 6 library catalogue records
- Cassandra Khaw at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database