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Nancy A. Collins (Nancy Averill Collins) (b. 1959) was born and raised in Arkansas, and currently makes her home in Atlanta, Georgia, with her dog, Scrapple. She is the author of several novels and numerous short stories, as well as having served a two-year stint as the writer of DC Comics’ Swamp Thing and created Dhampire: Stillborn for DC/Vertigo. The recipient of the Horror Writers Association’s Bram Stoker Award, The British Fantasy Society’s Icarus Award, and the Deathrealm Award, as well as a nominee for the Eisner, International Horror Guild and World Fantasy Awards, her books include her 1989 debut Sunglasses After Dark (which introduced undead vampire hunter Sonja Blue), In the Blood, Paint it Black, Darkest Heart, A Dozen Black Roses, Tempter, Walking Wolf, Angels on Fire and Lynch: A Gothik Western. Her short fiction has appeared in numerous anthologies and magazines and has been collected in Nameless Sins, Dead Roses for a Blue Lady: The Sonja Blue Short Fiction Collection, Dead Man’s Hand: Five Tales of the Weird West, Knuckles and Tales: Southern Neo-Gothic (illustrated by Steve Bissette) and Avenue X and Other Dark Streets. As an editor, Collins has co-compiled the erotic horror anthologies Dark Love (with Edward E. Kramer and Martin H. Greenberg) and Forbidden Acts (again with Kramer), while Gahan Wilson’s The Ultimate Haunted House features stories loosely based on the artist’s work.