Inna Effress

Inna is a speechwriter, fiction writer, and poet who emigrated from Ukraine to the U.S. as a child. Her writing has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and appears or is forthcoming in numerous publications, including Santa Monica Review, Tartarus Press' 30th Anniversary anthology Strange Tales, Undertow Publications' Weird Horror, the Lethe Press anthology Spirits Unwrapped, and has been reprinted in The Best Horror of the Year, among others. She lives in California with her husband, David Effress. Her web site is innaeffress.com "Her stories are unsummarizable, and do not exist apart from their style... Inna’s work is not about manners or current affairs, but instead her stories function as vehicles to probe the centers of darkness within all of us, those timeless places that define, far more than manners or politics, what it means to be human." - Jim Krusoe, author of The Sleep Garden