“Toronto native Hilary Davidson is a veteran freelance writer with over a dozen travel guidebooks and hundreds of articles for the likes of the Globe and Mail, Reader’s Digest, Discover, and Working Mother. ‘Anniversary’ is her first published short story, but all those years of writing to deadline pay off in the form of a tightly wound psychological chiller that shocks not with what is said but what is only implied.”

— Sarah Weinman (editor, writer, and “Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind” blogger)

Hilary’s debut novel, The Damage Done, will be published by Forge in October 2010. Her short story “Anniversary” was featured in A Prisoner of Memory and 24 of the Year’s Finest Crime and Mystery Stories (Pegasus, 2008). That anthology included fiction by Joyce Carol Oates, Lawrence Block, Michael Connelly, Jeffery Deaver, and Laura Lippman. “Anniversary” was also named among the Distinguished Mystery Stories of 2007 in The Best American Mystery Stories 2008, an anthology edited by George Pelecanos and Otto Penzler.

PUBLISHED FICTION:

“Good Bones,” Crime Factory, January 2010

“Undying Love,” The Feral Pages, issue #2, December 2009

“Beast,” A Twist of Noir, December 2009 (“Beast” won the Watery Grave Invitational in September 2009)

“Insatiable,” Beat to a Pulp, September 2009

“Anniversary” podcast, Well Told Tales (read by J.B. Goodspeed), May 2009; click here to download it for free from iTunes

“Silent Partners,” The Rose & Thorn, Spring 2009

“Stepmonster,” Thuglit, issue #30 (March/April 2009)

“Family Man,” CrimeSpree Magazine, issue #29 (March/April 2009)

“Anniversary,” A Prisoner of Memory and 24 of the Year’s Finest Crime and Mystery Stories, Pegasus, May 2008

“Son of So Many Tears,” Thuglit, issue #24 (February/March 2008)

“Anniversary,” Thuglit, issue #17 (March 2007)

COMING SOON:

NOVEL: The Damage Done, Forge, October 2010

“Son of So Many Tears,” Thuglit Presents: Blood, Guts, and Whiskey, Kensington, May 2010

“Cheap Bastard,” Spinetingler Magazine, 2010

“Family Man” podcast, Well Told Tales, 2010

“Fetish,” Beat to a Pulp, 2010

Steve Weddle of Do Some Damage has interviewed Hilary about New Orleans cemeteries, Pompeiian brothels, and a host of other subjects. David Cranmer, editor of Beat to a Pulp, has interviewed Hilary about her upcoming novel and her other work. Book blogger Jen Forbus of Jen’s Book Thoughts featured Hilary in her Six-Word Memoir project.

Contact Hilary at hilary@hilarydavidson.com, or follow her on Twitter @hilarydavidson.

Text and photographs copyright 2007-2010 Hilary Davidson. All rights reserved.