Cassandra Khaw

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
Born
Zoe Khaw Joo Ee

(1984-08-31) August 31, 1984 (age 39)
NationalityMalaysian

Biography edit

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

YearWorkAwardCategoryResultRef.
2017Hammers on BoneBritish Fantasy AwardBest NovellaNominated[9]
Locus AwardBest NovellaNominated[10]
2018Food of the GodsBest Horror NovelNominated[11]
2021Nothing but Blackened TeethBram Stoker AwardBest Long FictionNominated[12]
Shirley Jackson AwardBest NovelNominated[13]
2022British Fantasy AwardBest Horror Novel (The August Derleth Award)Nominated[14]
Ignyte AwardBest NovellaNominated[15]
World Fantasy AwardBest NovellaNominated[16]
The All-Consuming WorldLocus AwardBest First NovelNominated[17]
Breakable ThingsBram Stoker AwardBest Fiction CollectionWon[18][19]
Shirley Jackson AwardBest Single-Author CollectionNominated[20]
2023British Fantasy AwardBest CollectionNominated[21]
Locus AwardBest CollectionNominated[22]
World Fantasy AwardBest CollectionNominated[23]

Bibliography edit

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Novels edit

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

Video games edit

References edit

External links edit