Her novel Experimental Film (2015) won the Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novel and the Sunburst Award for Best Canadian Speculative Fiction (Novel) in 2016.įiles was married in 2002 to science fiction and fantasy author Stephen J. Her book, We Will All Go Down Together (about a coven of witches and changelings), was given a favorable review by National Public Radio (NPR). A Rope of Thorns was considered a 'powerful sequel' to A Book of Tongues by Publishers Weekly. Her first novel, A Book of Tongues, won the 2010 Black Quill award for 'Best Small Press Chill' from Dark Scribe Magazine it was followed by the sequels A Rope of Thorns (2011) and A Tree of Bones (2012), together comprising 'The Hexslinger Series'. Her short story 'The Jacaranda Smile' was also a 2009 Shirley Jackson Award finalist. In 2010 her Shirley Jackson Award-nominated novelette 'each thing i show you is a piece of my death' was reprinted in The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Two (ed.

In 2000 her award-winning story 'The Emperor's Old Bones' was reprinted in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Thirteenth Annual Collection (ed. She has also written reviews for and for the Canadian horror magazine Rue Morgue. She was listed by Cameron Bailey of NOW as one of the Top 10 Coolest People in Canadian Cinema for 1996. Various freelance assignments eventually led to a continuing position with entertainment periodical Eye Weekly, where she gained local repute as an insightful commentator on the horror genre, independent films and Canadian cinema. She published her first horror fiction, 'Fly-by-Night' in 1993. Files graduated Ryerson Polytechnic University in 1991 with a degree in journalism. Her family relocated to Toronto in 1969, where she resides today. Gemma Files was born in 1968 in London, England, to the actors Elva Mai Hoover and Gary Files. Five of her short stories were adapted for the television series The Hunger. Her short story, 'The Emperor's Old Bones', won the International Horror Guild Award for Best Short Story of 1999. Gemma Files is a Canadian horror writer, journalist, and film critic. Files at Readercon in 2016, holding her Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novel

Experimental film by gemma files