Barbara Roden sold Northwest Passages, her first major new short story collection, to Sean Wallace at Prime Books, where it’s scheduled to be released in October 2009. The book will be published in both a trade hardcover and a limited edition, and will feature an introduction by Michael Dirda. In addition to the award-winning title story, the collection will have several new stories, written specifically for it.
Barbara Roden was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, and is one-half of Ash-Tree Press, which won a World Fantasy Award in 1997 and has published more than a hundred books of classic supernatural fiction. In 2004, she co-edited Acquainted With the Night, which was nominated for a Stoker Award and which won the International Horror Guild and World Fantasy Awards for Best Anthology. She co-edits All Hallows (the journal of the Ghost Story Society) and Canadian Holmes (the journal of the Bootmakers of Toronto). In 2005, her short story “Northwest Passage” was nominated for a Stoker, an IHG, and a World Fantasy Award.