My first novel, Spellbent, germinated from a particularly terrible nightmare I had, but ironically my editor decided those parts of the book were too horrific and I had to rewrite them. it really isn’t! But the major silver lining is that I have gotten many, many story ideas from my dreams. Even now I can generally count on having at least one memorable nightmare a week, and at least once a night I’ll wake in a panic. People said I would grow out them, but I never did. I wasn’t allowed much TV back then, and my parents certainly hadn’t taken me to see any scary movies, so I’m not sure where all that came from. For instance, when I was three or four, I had a recurring nightmare that a large pile of avulsed eyeballs would chase me around the third-story wraparound porch of our house in South Carolina the doors were locked and I couldn’t get away from it. I’ve had nightmares for as long as I can remember.
Was there something that also inspired you to explore darker notions? You grew up in Texas and cite Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time as an early influence, in large part because of its effectiveness in provoking wonder. She lives in Worthington, Ohio with cats (no ferret, unlike her frequent heroine Jessie Shimmer), and her husband, author Gary Braunbeck.
She’s currently working on her fourth book in the Jessie Shimmer series, Devils’ Field (which was financed by a successful Kickstarter campaign), and her poetry will be featured in the forthcoming young adult horror anthology Scary Out There. Throughout her career, she has (almost gleefully) defied clichés and reveled in contradiction: She was raised in what she calls the “cactus-and-cowboys” area of Texas, but her work is often urban in setting and tone she has published collections of both erotica (Orchid Carousals) and humorous essays about computers (Installing Linux on a Dead Badger) she can be outspoken about the difficulties facing women in publishing, but she also calls her urban fantasy series (which began in 2009 with Spellbent) “guy-friendly” and this year she won the Bram Stoker Award® for both Fiction Collection and Nonfiction.
Lucy Snyder is one of those rare genre-hopping writers who are equally at home in horror, science fiction, poetry, or nonfiction.
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