Lee Murray (born 1965) is a New Zealand science fiction, fantasy, and horror writer and editor.[1] She is a multiple winner of the Bram Stoker Award and a twelve-time winner of the Sir Julius Vogel Award. She is most noted for her Taine McKenna military thrillers, and supernatural crime-noir series The Path of Ra.[2][3]
Lee Murray | |
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Nationality | New Zealand |
Occupation(s) | Author, Editor |
Notable work | Taine McKenna Adventures Series |
Awards | Bram Stoker, Sir Julius Vogel |
Murray was born in Putāruru, Waikato.[1] She previously worked as a scientist and an advisor for the OECD.[1] She is the co-founder of Young New Zealand Writers with Piper Mejia, an organization which has provided development and publishing opportunities for New Zealand school students.[1][4] She suffers from anxiety and depression.[5] She currently lives in Tauranga.[6]
Her anthologies Hellhole: An Anthology of Subterranean Terror and Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women won the Bram Stoker Award for "Superior Achievement in an Anthology" in 2018[7] and 2020 respectively, while her collection Grotesque: Monster Stories won the "Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection " category in 2020.[8] Other works have won the Australian Shadows and Sir Julius Vogel awards.[9] She was the winner of the 2019 Bram Stoker Mentor of the year award.[10] She is a professional member of the Horror Writers Association,[11] Australian Horror Writers Association,[12] and the New Zealand Society of Authors.[13] In 2020 she was awarded the New Zealand Society of Authors Honorary Literary Fellowship.[14] In 2021 she was awarded the Grimshaw Sargeson 2021 Fellowship.[15] She won the NZSA Laura Solomon Cuba Press Prize 2023 with her manuscript Fox Spirit on a Distant Cloud.[16][17]
Award | Year | Category | Recipient(s) | Result | Ref. |
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Bram Stoker | 2018 | Superior Achievement in Short Fiction | "Dead End Town" | Nominee | [7] |
Bram Stoker | 2019 | Superior Achievement in a Novel | Into the Ashes | Nominee | [18] |
Bram Stoker | 2020 | Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection | Grotesque: Monster Stories (Things in the Well) | Winner | [8] |
Bram Stoker | 2021 | Superior Achievement in Short Fiction | Permanent Damage | Winner | [19] |
Bram Stoker | 2021 | Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection | Tortured Willows: Bent. Bowed. Unbroken' by Christina Sng, Angela Yuriko Smith, Lee Murray & Geneve Flynn' | Winner | [19] |
Bram Stoker | 2022 | Superior Achievement in Short Non-Fiction | I Don’t Read Horror (& Other Weird Tales)' | Winner | [20] |
Sir Julius Vogel | 2012 | Best Youth Novel | Battle of the Birds | Winner | |
Sir Julius Vogel | 2013 | Best Short Story | Hope is the thing with feathers | Winner | |
Sir Julius Vogel | 2014 | Best Novella | Cave Fever | Winner | |
Sir Julius Vogel | 2015 | Best Short Story | Inside Ferndale | Winner | [21] |
Sir Julius Vogel | 2016 | Best Short Story | The Thief's Tale | Winner | |
Sir Julius Vogel | 2017 | Best Novel: Into the Mist | Into the Mist | Winner | |
Sir Julius Vogel | 2017 | Services To Science Fiction, Fantasy And Horror | Winner | ||
Sir Julius Vogel | 2018 | Best Novel | Hounds of the Underworld | Winner | |
Sir Julius Vogel | 2019 | Best Novel | Into the Sounds | Winner |
Award | Year | Category | Recipient(s) | Result | Ref. |
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Bram Stoker | 2018 | Superior Achievement in an Anthology | Hellhole: An Anthology of Subterranean Terror | Nominee | [7] |
Bram Stoker | 2020 | Superior Achievement in an Anthology | Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women | Winner | [8] |
Sir Julius Vogel | 2014 | Best Collected Work | Baby Teeth: Bite-sized Tales of Terror | Winner | |
Sir Julius Vogel | 2017 | Best Collected Work | At the Edge | Winner | |
Australian Shadow | 2018 | Edited Work | Hellhole: An Anthology of Subterranean Terror | Winner | |
Aurealis | 2020 | Best Anthology | Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women | Nominee | [22][23] |
Australian Shadow | 2020 | Edited Work | Midnight Echo #15 | Winner | [24] |
Work | Year | Title |
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Contributor | 2016 | The Refuge Collection Book 1: Heaven to Some |
Editor | 2017 | Hellhole: An Anthology of Subterranean Terror |
Contributor | 2018 | Beneath the Waves: Tales from the Deep (4) (Things in the Well) |
Editor | 2020 | Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women |
Editor | 2013 | Baby Teeth: Bite-sized Tales of Terror |
Contributor | 2019 | HWA Poetry Showcase Volume VI |