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Gemma Files
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Born in England and raised in Toronto, Canada, Gemma Files has been a film critic, teacher and screenwriter, and is currently a wife and mother. She won the 1999 International Horror Guild Best Short Fiction award for her story “The Emperor’s Old Bones”, and the 2006 ChiZine/Leisure Books Short Story Contest for her story “Spectral Evidence”. Her fiction has been published in two collections (Kissing Carrion and The Worm in Every Heart), and five of her stories were adapted into episodes of The Hunger, an anthology TV show produced by Ridley and Tony Scott’s Scot Free Productions. She has also published two chapbooks of poetry. She is currently finishing her first novel, A Book of Tongues.








