Nancy A. Collins

Nancy A. Collins is a professional novelist and comic book creator who is a recipient of the Horror Writers Association’s Bram Stoker Award, The British Fantasy Award, and the International Horror Guild Award, as well as a nominee for the World Fantasy Award, the John W. Campbell Award (twice), the James Tiptree Award, and the comics industry’s Eisner Award.

She has published over twenty novels and collections since 1989 but is perhaps best known for creating the punk vampire slayer Sonja Blue (Sunglasses After Dark) and being one of the pioneers of Urban Fantasy.

In the comics industry she has written for all the major publishers and is the only woman to have written Swamp Thing for DC Comics, as well as the first woman to have written the iconic Vampirella and Army of Darkness franchises.

2020 saw the release of The Swamp Thing By Nancy A. Collins Omnibus from DC/Vertigo Books , which collected her entire two-year run on the series in a legacy hardcover edition, which sold out in record time and has since gone into a second printing.

2023 also saw the release of the Blade Runner Black Lotus: Leaving LA graphic novel, based on the acclaimed anime series: Black Lotus.

Originally born and raised in Arkansas, with stopovers in Memphis, New Orleans, and New York, Ms. Collins currently resides in Macon, Georgia with her creative partner and a cat that won’t stop walking across her lap;;;;;;jw1.