Letitia Trent

Letitia Trent is a novelist, short story writer, and poet. Her Shirley Jackson Award-nominated short story, "Wilderness," appeared in The Best Horror of the Year Volume Eight . Trent is the author of novels Echo Lake and Almost Dark , and poetry collections Match Cut, The Ghost Comes with Me , and The Women in Charge . Her short stories, poetry, and nonfiction have appeared in the Daily Beast , Sou'Wester , Diagram , Waxwing , Smokelong Quarterly , and Hobart , among other publications. In...See more

Letitia Trent is a novelist, short story writer, and poet. Her Shirley Jackson Award-nominated short story, "Wilderness," appeared in The Best Horror of the Year Volume Eight . Trent is the author of novels Echo Lake and Almost Dark , and poetry collections Match Cut, The Ghost Comes with Me , and The Women in Charge . Her short stories, poetry, and nonfiction have appeared in the Daily Beast , Sou'Wester , Diagram , Waxwing , Smokelong Quarterly , and Hobart , among other publications. In addition to writing, she works in the mental health field. Trent lives in an Ozark mountain town with her husband, son, two black cats, and a dog named Sally. See less