C. J. Leede
C. J. Leede
b. 1992-03-09 · From United States- Books
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C. J. Leede is an American horror writer based in Los Angeles. Her debut novel, Maeve Fly (2023), about a theme-park ice princess leading a violent double life on the Sunset Strip, won Best Novel at the 2024 Splatterpunk Awards and the Golden Poppy Octavia E. Butler Award, and was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award.
Her second novel, American Rapture (2024), follows a Catholic teenager crossing a Midwest ravaged by a virus that makes the infected feral with lust; it was a USA Today bestseller and a Splatterpunk Award finalist. She has also written Headlights.
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The author is working on a long-term project to catalog American culture and various regions of the United States through her horror fiction, with the goal of eventually writing a book set in each state.
Her novels are standalone stories rather than a sequential series, though they are thematically linked by her ongoing exploration of American landscapes and culture.