Born in England and raised in Toronto, Canada, Gemma Files has been an award-winning horror author for almost thirty years. She is probably best-known for her novel Experimental Film, for which she won both the Shirley Jackson Award and the Sunburst Award, and her Bram Stoker Award-winning short story collections In That Endlessness, Our End and Blood From The Air (both from Grimscribe). Her next collection, Little Horn: Stories, will be released in October 2025 by Shortwave Publishing.