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Del Sandeen

Short Bio

Del Sandeen lives in Northeast Florida, where she works as a writer and copy editor. She also writes speculative and horror fiction. Her work has appeared in FIYAH: Speculative Literary Magazine, Uncanny Magazine, Nightlight Podcast, and Gay magazine. She is the author of THIS CURSED HOUSE and the forthcoming THESE WALLS REMEMBER (2026). She can be found on Twitter and Instagram @DelSandeen.

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Long Bio

Del Sandeen lives in Northeast Florida, where she works as a writer and copy editor. She is the recipient of the 2019 Diverse Writers Grant and the 2019 Diverse Worlds Grant from the Speculative Literature Foundation. Her short fiction has appeared in in FIYAH: Speculative Literary Magazine, Uncanny Magazine, Nightlight Podcast, and Magnolia, a Journal of Women's Socially Engaged Literature Volume III. Her nonfiction has appeared in Allure, Uncanny, Gay magazine and ZORA. She's the author of three young adult books: Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: Joined by Fate; Coping With Racial Profiling; and Maya Angelou: Writer and Activist.

 

Del is represented by Jim McCarthy at Dystel, Goderich & Bourret LLC. She is the author of Southern Gothic horror THIS CURSED HOUSE and the forthcoming contemporary horror THESE WALLS REMEMBER (2026). She can be found on Twitter and Instagram @DelSandeen.

Author Photography Christy Whitehead. Background Images Keagan Henman.

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