Curriculum Vitae

Ongoing Projects

Inkblot of the Day (IBOTD) on YouTube and TikTok

The Faceless God - Part Two (forthcoming)

To Nurture & Kill (illustrated hardcover edition forthcoming)

Mil Penas Inkblot Project (forthcoming)

Publications

2022 Death’s Garden Revisited: Relationships with Cemeteries | edited by Loren Rhoads

2022 The Faceless God - Part One: Spirits & Ash

2020 “Leaving the #9”

2019 Tales for the Camp Fire: A Charity Anthology Benefitting Wildfire Relief | edited by Loren Rhoads

2017 To Nurture & Kill

2016 The Deadbringer

Collaborations

The Deadbringer audio drama, episodes hosted by HorrorAddicts.net

Awards

2019 RedStarReviews Top 10 Fantasy Series

2018 Next Generation Indie Book Awards, novella finalist for To Nurture & Kill

2017 Next Generation Indie Book Awards, fantasy finalist for The Deadbringer

Trade Reviews

The Deadbringer

Booklist, Kirkus, HoustonPress

To Nurture & Kill

Kirkus

Memberships

Horror Writers Association 2017-Present

Interviews and Press

HoustonPress | Five Texas Authors for Women in Horror Month by Jef Rouner

Self-Published Fantasy Month | Interview with E.M. Markoff

HorrorAddicts.net | Chilling Chat with Naching T. Kassa : Ep. 172 | EM Markoff

Scary Stories for a Good Cause: E.M. Markoff on “Leaving the #9” | Interview by L.S. Johnson

Unreliable Narrators Podcast | Ep. 163 Author Spotlight: E.M. Markoff

5 Question with E.M. Markoff by Loren Rhoads

Interview with E.M. Markoff by Anthony Avina

SciFi4Me | Worldcon 74 YouTube interview: E.M. Markoff

Conventions

2024

Fan Expo SF (Nov 29-Dec 1, 2024)

2022

Fan Expo SF (Nov 25-27, 2022)

2021

Silicon with Adam Savage (Aug 28-29, 2021)

Rose City Comic Con (Sept 10-12, 2021)

Emerald City Comic Con (Dec 2-5, 2021)

2020

WonderCon (Sept 11-13, 2020)

Oddities & Curiosities Expo (Canceled; March 21, 2020)

FOGcon 10 (March 6-8, 2020)

Panels:

Things I Wish I’d Known Earlier: Writing Edition

Shades of Fear: Color in Horror

Dangerous Women Reading

2020 San Francisco Indie Uncon (Feb 21-23, 2020)

RedStarReviews Bookstagram Group Read + Q&A (Feb 2020)

 

2019

LIT CRAWL 2019 (Oct 19, 2019)

Sinister Creature Con (Canceled; Oct 12, 2019)

Stephen Chbosky with E.M. Markoff at Kepler’s Books

Tales of Horror at San Mateo Library (Oct 2, 2019)

Silicon Valley Comic Con 2019 (Aug 16-18, 2019)

Dark Carnival Bookstore (June 29, 2019)

SF in SF (June 9, 2019)

Nebula Conference 2019 (May 16-19, 2019)

5th Annual Bay Area Book Festival (May 4, 2019)

FOGcon 9 (March 8-10, 2019)

Panels:

Friends and Chosen Family?

Decolonizing Space

2018

A Night of Grimdark, Horror, & Fantasy (Oct 31, 2018)

Sinister Creature Con (Oct 14, 2018)

Indie Author Day ’18 (Oct 13, 2018)

San Mateo Library Event: Tales of Horror (Oct 11, 2018)

WorldCon 76 (Aug 16-20, 2018)

Panels:

What Turns People onto Horror

Imposter Syndrome: You DO Deserve to be Here

Broad Universe Rapid-Fire Reading

AuthorFest at San Mateo Library (July 14, 2018)

ALA Annual Conference (June 24, 2018)

Imagination Fair at BayCon 2018 (May 26, 2018)

4th Annual Bay Area Book Festival (April 28-29, 2018)

Silicon Valley Comic Con 2018 (April 6-8, 2018)

FOGcon 8 (March 9-11, 2018)

Panels:

The Spectrum of Horror

Good Grimdark Done Well by Marginalized People

 

2017

Famous Monsters (Canceled; Oct 27-29, 2017)

3rd Annual Bay Area Book Festival (June 3-4, 2017)

Silicon Valley Comic Con (April 21-23, 2017)

FOGcon 7 (March 11, 2017)

 

2016

Kraken Con (November 18, 2016)

San Francisco Comic Con (Sept 2-4, 2016)

MidAmeriCon II – the 74th WorldCon (August 20, 2016)