Paula D. Ashe (she/her) is an author of dark fiction. Her debut collection We Are Here to Hurt Each Other (Nictitating Books) was a Shirley Jackson Award winner for Single Author Collection and a Bram Stoker Award Finalist for Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection. In 2024 she was awarded the Joseph S. Pulver Award (the bEastie!) at NecronomiCon Providence. In 2026, Clash Books will release her first standalone novella, Transubstantiation Blues. She is represented by Lane Heymont of Tobias Literary Agency. Paula lives in the Midwest, by way of Leviathan’s Labyrinth.