About the author

P.M. Raymond is an award-winning author from New Orleans, Louisiana who knows a thing or two about good gumbo, grits, and café au lait.  She is a 2025 Killer Shorts and Horror2Comic Semifinalist, the Sisters in Crime 2024 Eleanor Taylor Bland Award Winner, 2024 Claymore Award Finalist, and 2024 Killer Shorts Finalist. She was named to the 160 Black Women in Horror in 2023. Her debut interconnected short story collection - THINGS ARE AS THEY SHOULD BE and other words to die for - is coming 2026 from Uncomfortably Dark Horror. Her work has appeared in Punk Noir, Flash Fiction Magazine, Kings River Life Magazine, Dark Fire Fiction, Pyre Magazine, The Furious Gazelle, Dark Yonder, and THE MOST DANGEROUS GAMES anthology from Level Best Books, among others.