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Canadian horror writer and editor born 1963
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1963
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Biography
Introduction
Barbara Roden (born 1963), is a Canadian horror writer and editor
Biography
Barbara Roden was born in 1963 in Vancouver, British Columbia. She studied journalism. With her husband Christopher Roden, she founded Ash-Tree Press in 1994. She is editor of All Hallows from the Ghost Story Society. She is a longstanding Sherlock Holmes fan and she and her husband have edited a number of titles as well as one she wrote. Roden has won World Fantasy Awards as editor and publisher. She has also written fiction and her work has gained awards.
Roden now lives in Ashcroft and in 2018 she was elected Mayor of the village. She is the editor of The Ashcroft-Cache Creek Journal and in 2018 she was awarded the Jack Webster Award for Community Reporting.
Awards
- 1997 World Fantasy Awards —special award
- 2000 Bram Stoker Awards —specialty press award
- 2005 World Fantasy Awards —anthology — Acquainted with the Night
- 2005 International Horror Guild Awards —anthology — Acquainted with the Night