Gretchen Felker-Martin is an American horror author and film and TV critic. She is best known to date for her novel Manhunt (2022).
Life and career
Gretchen Felker-Martin grew up in rural New Hampshire.[1] She moved to Worcester, Massachusetts, in 2007.[2] She had film and TV criticism published in outlets such as Polygon and Time,[3][4] and self-published several horror novellas starting in 2016.[5]
Felker-Martin's science fictionhorror novel Manhunt was published on February 22, 2022, in the U.S. by Tor Nightfire.[6]Manhunt appeared on best-of-year lists in multiple publications, including appearing at #1 in Vulture's list of "The Best Books of 2022".[7]Roxane Gay selected it as one of the "25 Most Influential Works of Postwar Queer Literature", writing, "This is the kind of book that queer writers have been desperate to write forever and are rarely given the opportunity to."[8] The Los Angeles Review of Books wrote, "Felker-Martin's horror novel cunningly weaves trans determinism, war, and trauma together in an effort to locate joy, empathy, and pleasure in a world on fire."[9] In October 2024, Lilly Wachowski announced that she is adapting Manhunt into a TV series with Felker-Martin.[10][11]
Her novel Cuckoo was published on June 11, 2024.[12] In its first week it entered the USA Today best-seller list,[13] and it was chosen as one of the "Best Horror Books of 2024 (So Far)" by Vulture.[14]Publishers Weekly wrote, "Laying bare grief, terror, and the tenderness that makes it all matter, this is horror at its best."[15]
Also in June 2024 she wrote a short story in issue #41 of Harley Quinn.[16]
Felker-Martin is transgender,[1] and uses she/her pronouns.
Bibliography
Novels
Manhunt (2022, Tor Nightfire)
Cuckoo (2024, Tor Nightfire)
Novellas
No End Will be Found (2017)
Ego Homini Lupus (2019)
Dreadnought (2020)
Short stories
Sardines (2024), published in Bury Your Gays, by Sofia Ajram, ed.
^Jones, Nate; Quah, Nicholas; Willmore, Alison; Ebiri, Bilge (January 3, 2023). "The Best Books of 2022". Vulture. Retrieved October 20, 2024.
^Soller, Kurt; Brown, Liz; Courteau, Rose; Guadagnino, Kate; Holdren, Sara; Jackson, Brian Keith; Moffitt, Evan; Morales, Miguel; Obaro, Tomi; Romack, Coco; Snyder, Michael; Thomas, June (June 22, 2023). "The 25 Most Influential Works of Postwar Queer Literature". The New York Times. Retrieved October 20, 2024.
