About
Nicole M. Wolverton is the author of the young adult horror/suspense novel A MISFORTUNE OF LAKE MONSTERS (2024) and the adult psychological thriller THE TRAJECTORY OF DREAMS (2013). She is a Pushcart Prize-nominated writer; her short fiction, essays, and creative nonfiction have been published in over forty anthologies, magazines, and podcasts. She served as editor of BODIES FULL OF BURNING (2021), an anthology of short fiction that centers horror through the lens of menopause. Wolverton grew up in rural Pennsylvania but now lives in the Philadelphia area. She earned a Masters of Liberal Arts in Horror and Storytelling from the University of Pennsylvania.
Featured Work
A Misfortune of Lake Monsters
Lemon Ziegler wants to escape rural Devil’s Elbow, Pennsylvania to attend college—but that’s impossible now that she’s expected to impersonate the town’s lake monster for the rest of her life. Her family has been secretly keeping the tradition of Old Lucy, the famed (and very fake) monster of Lake Lokakoma, alive for generations, all to keep the tourists coming. Without Lemon, the town dies, and she can’t disappoint her grandparents . . . or tell her best friends about any of it. That includes Troy Ramirez, who has been covertly in love with Lemon for years, afraid to ruin their friendship by confessing his feelings. When a very real, and very hungry monster is discovered in the lake, secrets must fall by the wayside. Determined to stop the monster, Lemon and her best friends are the only thing standing between Devil’s Elbow and the monster out for blood.
Other Works
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The Trajectory of Dreams
2013