Beatrice Winifred Iker
Photo Credit: Charlie Iker, Beatrice Winifred Iker, and Sydnee Monday
Beatrice Winifred Iker (EYE-kurr) (they/them) is an Appalachian storyteller, trail hiker, and tarot reader from Knoxville, Tennessee, currently residing in New Hampshire.
Beatrice has an upcoming adult horror novel, I'LL MAKE A SPECTACLE OF YOU, set to be published this fall 2025. Additionally, they are releasing a picture book called CHARLEY'S HONKY TONK MISSION, illustrated by Miguelina Milien. This picture book celebrates Charley Pride, America's first Black country music star, and will be published in the spring of 2026. Beatrice co-hosts the Ignyte Award-winning Afronauts Podcast, which discusses and uplifts Black speculative fiction. They are a Voodoonauts Fellow.
Beatrice is a Rhysling & Dwarf Star Award-nominated poet with work in The Australian Shadows Award-winning anthology Death in the Mouth. You can find their work in issues of Anathema Magazine, The Deadlands, Fantasy Magazine, FIYAH Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction, Nightmare Magazine, & others.
Beatrice is represented by Chelsea Hensley at Mad Woman Literary Agency.
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