Victor LaValle

Victor LaValle is an American writer whose fiction brings horror and fantasy into contact with contemporary life. Raised in Queens, New York, he is the author of books including The Ecstatic, Big Machine, The Devil in Silver, The Changeling and Lone Women.

He also writes comics, including Destroyer and Eve, and has worked on Marvel’s Sabretooth. His movement between novels and sequential storytelling allows supernatural and speculative ideas to take different forms across the page. LaValle teaches writing at Columbia University, and his work has received honours including the World Fantasy and Shirley Jackson awards, alongside a Guggenheim fellowship.