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Our next meeting will be Friday, February 7 at 8 pm on Zoom. We are delighted to welcome Leanna Renee Hieber as our guest speaker. Contact us at info@psfs.org for the Zoom link.
Leanna Renee Hieber is an actress, playwright, ghost tour guide, audiobook narrator and an award-winning, bestselling author of ghostly fiction and non-fiction for Tor Books, Everand (Scribd) and Kensington Books. A Haunted History of Invisible Women: True Stories of America’s Ghosts, co-authored with Andrea Janes, was a Bram Stoker Award Finalist for Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction. A multiple Prism award winner for her Gothic Strangely Beautiful saga and a Daphne du Maurier award finalist for Darker Still, Leanna’s books have been selected for national book club editions and translated into many languages. Her short stories have been featured in numerous notable anthologies such as Queen Victoria’s Book of Spells (Tor), the Castle of Horror anthology series, and on sites like Tor.com, PseudoPod and the Sunday Morning Transport. Her nonfiction essays have been featured in Apex Magazine, Psychopomp, The Deadlands, Haunted Magazine and more.
She has been featured in film and television on shows like Mysteries at the Museum and Beyond the Unknown, discussing Victorian Spiritualism. She is a guest at conventions around the country and lectures nationwide on themes of Gothic fiction, 19th Century Women’s History and paranormal subjects for institutions such as New York University, Miami University, Bard College, the Association of University Women, Morbid Anatomy and more. More at http://leannareneehieber.com; her books are available at bookshop.org, and her Victoriana accessories may be ordered at https://torchandarrow.etsy.com.
PSFS meets monthly, usually on the second Friday of the month. Meetings usually feature a guest speaker known in the SFF community along with lively back-and-forth discussions.
Recent guests have included Carmen Maria Machado, Josiah Bancroft, Tom Purdom, Jon McGoran, Madeleine Miller, Fonda Lee, Jeanne Cavelos, Jonathan Lethem, Vandana Singh, PJ Manney, Jason Sanford, John Wiswell, A. T. Greenblatt, Cat Rambo, Jo Walton, Stephanie Feldman, Ray Nayler, Premee Mohamed, Randee Dawn, Ellen Datlow, Walter Hunt, and Gregory Frost.
Since Covid, our meetings have been a combination of remote (via Zoom) and in-person. Locations for in-person meetings are either at St. Mary’s Church at Penn, 3916 Locust Walk, Philadelphia PA 19104, or the Rotunda, 4014 Walnut Street, Philadelphia PA 19104.