Katya de Becerra

Katya de Becerra is the critically acclaimed, Aurealis and Shadows winning, and Kirkus and Booklist starred author of horror-thrillers When Ghosts Call Us Home, What The Woods Keep, Oasis, and They Watch From Below. She is also Ditmar-nominated co-editor of the anthology This Fresh Hell, which reimagines and subverts horror tropes in new and unexpected ways. Born in Russia, Katya studied in California, lived in Peru, and then stayed in Australia long enough to become a local. She was going to be an Egyptologist when she grew up, but instead she earned a PhD in Anthropology. For the past decade, she’s been working at a university, teaching and researching as well as supervising postgraduate students in Anthropology, Creative Writing and Education. Katya is a short version of her real name, which is very long and gets mispronounced a lot.