Once an operating room registered nurse, Bridgett Nelson so enjoyed playing with human organs, she decided to turn her macabre interest into a horror writing career. She loves bubble baths (because nothing says spooooky writer like orange-scented bubbles), hates not knowing what’s swimming in the water with her, lives for Halloween season (but loathes chainsaw-wielding dudes in haunted houses), adores her West Virginia University Mountaineers, is very pro-Oxford comma, and thinks bananas are absolutely disgusting.
Her first collection, A Bouquet of Viscera, is a two-time Splatterpunk Award winner, recognized both for the collection itself and its standout story, “Jinx.” She is also the author of Poisoned Pink, What the Fuck Was That?, Sweet, Sour, & Spicy, and her first novella, Red Inside, is now available!
Bridgett’s third collection, Embracing the Profane, drops April 22, 2025, and includes fifteen extreme stories. Her novelization of the cult classic film, Deadgirl, drops May 6, 2025 from Encyclopocalypse Publications. And her first Thunderstorm Publications limited edition hardcover, Blossoming Decay, sold out in just twelve hours!
Her work has appeared in mulitple anthologies, including the iconic Deathrealm Spirits, Hotel Macabre, Edward Lee’s Erotic Horror for Horny Housewives, The Rack, To Hell and Back, Evil Little Fucks, Y’all Ain’t Right, Splatterpunk’s Basement of Horror, Dark Disasters, October Screams, American Cannibal, and the legendary Splatterpunk Zine.
Bridgett is currently working on her first original novel, a novella, a chapbook, and a collaboration with a very funny writer.
When Edward Lee read her story “Giggly,” available in the Poisoned Pink collection, he said to her:
“Giggly kicked my ass. Outstanding job! I need therapy now.”
Bridgett is mom to Parker and Autumn and a 2022 Michael Knost WINGS award nominee. She also won second-place in the ’22 Gross-Out contest at KillerCon in Austin, Texas, and third-place in the ’23 Gross-Out contest.
She’s a freelance editor. Audiobook proofer. Bookworm. Dog lover. Tarantula whisperer. Bra avoider. ENJF. Amaretto Sour obsessor.
Bridgett currently lives in Duluth, Minnesota, with Bram Stoker Award-winning author, Jeff Strand, and their ball python, Indie Hellspawn McFangy Serenity Strand.
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