Angela V. Dicken is a speculative fiction writer who tells stories that are introspective, feminine, and quietly strange. That carries over into her publication, Pretty Weird, a short story zine devoted to curiosity, connection, and the quiet strangeness that threads through everyday life.

A Midwesterner at heart, shaped by cornfields, quiet suburbs, and a middle school crush on Edgar Allan Poe, she studied literature and gender studies at Miami University of Ohio. She later earned a developmental editing certificate from the University of Washington. She also currently serves as an acquisitions reader for a philosophy & ethics literary magazine.

When she isn’t writing, Angela does her best to look like someone who might be writing by wandering secondhand bookstores and local museums or having hours-long coffee talks with friends.

Current projects include a speculative novel about voice and agency for young women and a collection of surreal short stories focused on navigating liminal spaces.