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
| Year | Work | Award | Category | Result | Ref. |
| 2015 | Shirley Jackson Award | Best Novelette | |||
| 2016 | British Fantasy Award | Best Short Fiction | Won | ||
| 2018 | All the Fabulous Beasts | Shirley Jackson Award | Best Single-Author Collection | Won | |
| 2019 | All the Fabulous Beasts | British Fantasy Award | Best Collection | Won | |
| 2019 | All the Fabulous Beasts | Locus Award | Best Collection | ||
| 2019 | Ormeshadow | Shirley Jackson Award | Best Novella | Won | |
| 2019 | British Fantasy Award | Best Short Story | |||
| 2020 | Ormeshadow | British Fantasy Award | Best Novella | Won | |
| 2022 | Ormeshadow | Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire | Foreign Short fiction | ||
| 2022 | Pomegranates | Shirley Jackson Award | Best Novella | ||
| 2023 | Pomegranates | British Fantasy Award | Best Novella | ||
| 2023 | Pomegranates | World Fantasy Award | Novella | Won | |
| 2025 | British Fantasy Award | Short 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- '