Victor LaValle

Victor LaValle is an American author of literary horror and dark fantasy. He won the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel (tie) for The Changeling (2018) alongside Fonda Lee for Jade City. He has also won the Shirley Jackson Award, the Bram Stoker Award, and the British Fantasy Award. Born in Flushing, Queens in 1972, LaValle grew up in New York City. His fiction explores race, masculinity, mental illness, and Black American experience through a genre lens. The Changeling, his fifth novel, is a fairy tale set in contemporary New York about a new father who undertakes a dangerous quest to find his missing family. His other works include The Ballad of Black Tom (a rewriting of H.P. Lovecraft's 'The Horror at Red Hook' from the perspective of a Black musician), Big Machine, The Devil in Silver, and The Changeling. He is a professor of creative writing at Columbia University and lives in New York City.