Award-winning author, poet, and playwright Melanie Tem's works have won, among many accolades, the Bram Stoker Award and the British Fantasy Award. Dan Simmons called her "the literary successor to Shirley Jackson", and readers and reviewers consistently rave about her deeply involved stories of the terrors that haunt families. She is married to author Steve Rasnic Tem and they live in Denver, Colorado with the family they have made for themselves.