L. Marie Wood is a two-time Bram Stoker Award® and Rhysling nominated dark fiction author, screenwriter, essayist, and poet with novels in the psychological horror, mystery, and dark romance genres. She won the Golden Stake Award for her novel The Promise Keeper.  She is a recipient of the MICO Award and has won Best Horror, Best Short Screenplay, and Best Action, Best Afrofuturism/Horror/Sci-Fi awards in both national and international film festivals. Wood has penned short fiction that has been published in groundbreaking works, including Sycorax's Daughters and Slay: Stories of the Vampire Noire.  She is also part of the 2022 Bookfest Book Award winning poetry anthology, Under Her Skin.  Her academic writing has been published by Nightmare Magazine and in the cross-curricular text, Conjuring Worlds: An Afrofuturist Textbook. She is the founder of the Speculative Fiction Academy, an English and Creative Writing professor, a horror scholar with a Ph.D. in Creative Writing and an MFA in Speculative Fiction, and a frequent contributor to the conversation around the evolution of genre fiction.

L. Marie Wood was included in 100+ Black Women in Horror Fiction, a reference guide of female horror writers from the African Diaspora. Wood is also a scholar and educator. She recently founded the Speculative Fiction Academy to help aspiring writers hone their craft.

Wood's papers include drafts and manuscripts spanning her forty-year-long career. Her papers are being archived as University of Pittsburgh Library System | Horror Studies.