Gerri R. Gray

Gerri R. Gray is an American novelist, short story writer, editor, and lifelong aficionado of horror and dark humor. Born and raised in the Chicago area, her interest in creative writing developed at an early age. She began writing poetry, short stories, magazine articles, and stage plays complete with musical scores while in her teen years. 

By the spring of 1980, she was publishing a small press literary journal called Golden Isis, a one-woman operation that specialized in mystical poetry and offbeat fiction. Its international circulation grew to nearly 3600 and it attracted subscribers from places as far away as Puerto Rico, Australia, Italy, and Japan. 

Her debut novel, The Amnesia Girl (an outrageously dark comedy about the misadventures of two women who escape from a psychiatric hospital in the 1970s), was published by HellBound Books in 2017 and has received favorable reviews by readers. 

She currently has ten published books with HellBound and over two-dozen books with other publishers, including Penguin, Kensington, New Page, and Adams Media.

Her work has appeared in numerous anthologies and literary journals. She is a member of the Horror Writers Association and Ladies of Horror Fiction, and one of her short stories was recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize. 

Writing under the pen name, Gerina Dunwich, she is also the author of over two dozen non-fiction books on Wicca and the paranormal. Her articles, poetry and interviews have appeared in many publications, including Playgirl, American Woman, Moving Words, and Llewellyn's calendars and datebooks. She is repped by Stephany Evans (Ayesha Pande Literary, FinePrint Literary Management).

Gerri lives in upstate New York in an historic and decidedly haunted nineteenth-century house with her husband and a bevy of spirits. When she isn't busy editing and creating strange worlds filled with even stranger characters, she can often be found rummaging through antique shops, exploring haunted places, or traipsing through old cemeteries with her digital camera in hand.