Bio
J. Morgyn White studied Vampires in Myth, Folklore, and Literature at Hampshire College and founded the gaming magazines SCRYE and CRYPTYCH.
In 2023, she was chosen as the Best New Writer at Futurescapes. She is an alumna of the NorCal Writer’s Retreats, an award winner of 2022 Daphne du Maurier & Olive Woolley Burt Awards, and has been a finalist in a number of other writing contests including the 2022, 2023, & 2024 Claymore Awards.
She has a passion for vintage and antique jewelry, heirloom vegetables, indie perfume, ephemera, silversmithed rings, and classic films.
White lives in wine country with her game-designing husband, son, and two Bengal cats.
She is forever and always Hunting Dragons
AWARDS & ACCOLADES
............ 2024
2024 Claymore Awards Finalist SF & F- Fable & Fine
2024 Claymore Awards Top 10 Pick Suspense - By Their Rules
2024 Claymore Awards Top 10 Pick SF & F - Fable & Fine
............ 2023
2023 Futurescapes Emerging Writer Award
2023 Claymore Awards Finalist - Plague House
............ 2022
2022 Claymore Awards Finalist - It Might Disturb The House
2022 Olive Burt Woolley Award - It Might Disturb The House
2022 Olive Woolley Burt Award - By Their Rules
2022 Daphne du Maurier Award - It Might Disturb the House
........... 2019
2019 Heart to Heart Award - Some Strangeness
2019 On The Far Side Award - Some Strangeness
2019 Cleveland Rocks Romance Award - Some Strangeness
........... 2018
2018 Daphne du Maurier Award - Valravyn Honorable Mention
2018 Put Your Heart in a Book Award - Some Strangeness