A. V. Dicken is a speculative fiction and short story writer. Her work is introspective, feminine, and quietly strange, concerned with voice, agency, and the cost of being seen.

Angela was raised in the Midwest and developed an early and lasting attachment to Mary Shelley and Edgar Allan Poe. She studied literature and gender studies at Miami University (the one in the Ohio cornfields) and developmental editing at the University of Washington. She currently serves as Submissions Director for After Dinner Conversation, a philosophy & ethics fiction magazine.

Angela's other loves include independent bookstores, museums, the theater, and her greyhound, Fable. Her current projects include a speculative novel about voice and agency in young women and a collection of surreal short stories about women in liminal spaces.