Tabatha (TL) Wood is a double award-winning Deaf author and editor of weird, dark speculative fiction and quiet horror from Aotearoa, New Zealand.

A former English teacher and school library manager, their first books were nonfiction guides for professional educators.

They now tutor from home while also working as a freelance writer, editor and illustrator.

They like strong coffee, soft cats, and spending time by the sea. 


“Slyly subversive horror. Recommended.” – Jamie Delano

“Tabatha’s writing is beautiful and strange. I love it.” – Steve Dillon, Things in the Well

“Heartfelt and gruesome in all the right places.” – Aiden Merchant, Snow Capped Press

“Tabatha has a way of turning the ordinary into the extraordinary.” – Yvonne Davies, Terror Tree


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