Linda D. Addison, award-winning author of five collections, including "How To Recognize A Demon Has Become Your Friend", the first African-American recipient of the HWA Bram Stoker Award®, received the HWA Mentor of the Year Award and the HWA Lifetime Achievement Award. Check out her poetry in the HWA Bram Stoker nominated, "The Place of Broken Things", written with Alessandro Manzetti. She’s excited about a film (inspired by her poem of same name) “Mourning Meal” by producer/director Jamal Hodge. She has published over 360 poems, stories and articles and is a member of CITH, HWA, SFWA and SFPA..