Hello, I’m Anastasia
Anastasia Garcia is a Mexican-American writer of horror and speculative fiction. Anastasia’s writing journey begins at the tender age of 11 when she wrote her first screenplay, a murder mystery.
Today Anastasia’s writing appears in online publications, podcasts, and in print anthologies like Weird Horror from Flame Tree Press and Shadow Atlas: Dark Landscapes of the Americas from Hex Publishers. Her writing has appeared in publications alongside horror authors Josh Malerman, Tim Waggoner, Gwendolyn Kiste, and many more.
Anastasia’s first book, GHOSTLY, GHASTLY TALES was published from Gibbs Smith in July 2024. And her second book CREEPY CAMPFIRE STORIES will publish on April 8, 2025. In 2022, Anastasia joined the Horror Writers Association. In 2020, Anastasia was awarded the Ladies of Horror Fiction writer’s grant.
In her free time, Anastasia reads 50 books a year and is a member of the Capitol Hill Speculative Fiction Writing Group. Originally from Texas, Anastasia is a graduate of the University of Texas in Austin and is heavily influenced by the local myths and legends.
She now works at Pinterest and lives in New York City.
Published Work
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Creepy Campfire Stories | Frights to Tell at Night #2 | Gibbs Smith | April 2025
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Ghostly, Ghastly Tales | Frights to Tell at Night #1 | Gibbs Smith | July 2024
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“Red” | Planetside: Science Fiction Drabbles | Shacklebound Books | February 2023
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“Dark Skies” | Weird Horror Short Stories | Flame Tree Press | June 2022
“Where the Ice is Thinnest” | LIMINIS Literary & Art Journal | April 2022
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“Ya-Te-Veo’’ | Shadow Atlas: Dark Landscapes of the Americas | Hex Publishers | November 2021
“The Princess and the Sea Witch” and “Monstruo” | The Deep | Ghost Orchid Press | July 2021
The Sun Sets on a Rational World | The Nottingham Horror Collective, Issue III | June 2021
“Blood & Sand” | Lunatics Radio Hour Podcast | June 2021
My Molcajete and Me | Mixed Mag, Issue 8 | May 2021
“Tyl & Teg” | Corvid Queen | March 2021