M.S. Gardner moves between the worlds of fabulism and realism and draws inspiration from the curious, bizarre, and absurd nature of life. She’s perfected her impersonation of a normal human being well enough to hold a job at a local library. While her physical body resides on the Alabama Gulf Coast, she mostly lives in her head.

She is the 2024 Moon Meridian Novella Award Winner. Her novella Wolf’s Bane will be published by April Gloaming in 2025.

Her work has also appeared in That Is TOO Wrong! An Anthology of Offbeat Horror Vol. 2, The Dead Mule School for Southern Literature, Psychopomp, Terror House Magazine, Coastal Shelf, Running Wild Story Anthology Vol. 5, Page & Spine, Hypnopomp, Altarworks, and Strangelet Journal.