Priya Sharma (author)


Priya Sharma is a British fantasy and horror short story writer and novelist. Her works have won the British Fantasy Award, Shirley Jackson Award, and World Fantasy Award.

Personal life

Sharma was born to an Indian father and an Anglo-Indian mother and grew up in North West England. She gained a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery at medical school and works full-time as a general practitioner on the Wirral Peninsula.

Awards and honors

YearWorkAwardCategoryResultRef.
2015Shirley Jackson AwardBest Novelette
2016British Fantasy AwardBest Short FictionWon
2018All the Fabulous BeastsShirley Jackson AwardBest Single-Author CollectionWon
2019All the Fabulous BeastsBritish Fantasy AwardBest CollectionWon
2019All the Fabulous BeastsLocus AwardBest Collection
2019OrmeshadowShirley Jackson AwardBest NovellaWon
2019British Fantasy AwardBest Short Story
2020OrmeshadowBritish Fantasy AwardBest NovellaWon
2022OrmeshadowGrand Prix de l'ImaginaireForeign Short fiction
2022PomegranatesShirley Jackson AwardBest Novella
2023PomegranatesBritish Fantasy AwardBest Novella
2023PomegranatesWorld Fantasy AwardNovellaWon
2025British Fantasy AwardShort Fiction

Novellas

Ormeshadow, 2019, Tor Books: Pomegranates, 2022, PS Publishing:

Collections

All the Fabulous Beasts, 2018, Undertow Publications:

Stories

In the Garden, 2005Sweetpea, 2005Screaming Purple Psychosis, 2006The Englishman, 2006The Lady, Eve, 2007The Last Man in Africa, 2009The Indifferent Stars, 2009The Soul of Stones, 2009', 2010The Bitterness of Apples, 2010The Show, 2011The Virgin's Tears, 2011
  • ', 2011The Fox Maiden, 2011The Orchid Hunters, 2011Fish Skins, 2012', 2012
  • ', 2012Needlepoint, 2012Lady Dragon and the Netsuke Carver, 2012', 2013, tor.comThesea and Astaurius, 2013After Mary, 2013
  • ', 2013The Sunflower Seed Man, 2013', 2013The Rising Tide, 2014The Firebrand, 2014
  • ', 2015The Red Vortex, 2015', 2015, tor.com
  • ', 2015Grave Goods, 2016Inheritance, or The Ruby Tear, 2016, 2017Mercury, 2017A Son of the Sea, 2018Small Town Stories, 2018Maw, 2018My Mother's Ghosts, 2019Feral, 2020Mari Lwyd, 2021The Beechfield Miracles, 2021Papa Eye, 2022Tales from Alexandria, 2022The Ghost of a Flea, 2022A Short History of My Mother, 2022