Biography

Ward was born in New South Wales

New South Wales

New South Wales is a state of :Australia, located in the east of the country. It is bordered by Queensland, Victoria and South Australia to the north, south and west respectively. To the east, the state is bordered by the Tasman Sea, which forms part of the Pacific Ocean. New South Wales...

, Australia. She attended the University of Technology, Sydney

University of Technology, Sydney

The University of Technology Sydney is a university in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The university was founded in its current form in 1981, although its origins trace back to the 1870s. UTS is notable for its central location as the only university with its main campuses within the Sydney CBD...

 where she gained a BA in communications.

Writing

Ward was first published in 1994 with her poem "Mary" which was featured in the magazine Bloodsongs. In 2002 her short story "The Boneyard" was nominated for the Ditmar Award

Ditmar Award

The Ditmar Award has been awarded annually since 1969 at the Australian National Science Fiction Convention to recognise achievement in Australian science fiction and science fiction fandom...

 for best short fiction but lost to Lucy Sussex

Lucy Sussex

Lucy Sussex is a fantasy and science fiction author, editor, academic and teacher currently residing in Melbourne, Australia.She is often associated with feminist science fiction.-Personal life:...

 and Jack Dann

Jack Dann

Jack Dann is an American writer best known for his science fiction, an editor and a writing teacher, who has lived in Australia since 1994. He has published over seventy books, in the majority of cases as editor or co-editor of story anthologies in the science fiction, fantasy and horror genres...

. In 2006 she won her first award with the novel Prismatic, co-authored with Evan Paliatseas and David Carroll under the shared pseudonym of Edwina Grey. Prismatic tied with Will Elliott

Will Elliott

Will Elliott is an Australian literary horror fiction writer who lives in Brisbane, Queensland.His debut novel The Pilo Family Circus was published in Australia in 2006 after winning the inaugural ABC Fiction Award...

's The Pilo Family Circus

The Pilo Family Circus

The Pilo Family Circus is a 2006 horror novel by Will Elliott. It follows the story of Jamie who after a random incident of nearly hitting a clown with his car finds himself being stalked by three sadistic clowns.-Background:...

to win the Aurealis Award for best horror novel

Aurealis Award for best horror novel

The Aurealis Awards are presented annually by the Australia-based Chimaera Publications and SpecFaction NSW to published works in order to "recognise the achievements of Australian science fiction, fantasy, horror writers"...

.

Ward has also contributed to role-playing games including Buffy the Vampire Slayer Roleplaying Game by Eden Studios, Inc.

Eden Studios, Inc.

Eden Studios, Inc. is an award-winning American role-playing game publisher founded in 1996 by George Vasilakos, M. Alexander Jurkat, and Ed Healy. Currently run by Mr...

 and White Wolf

White Wolf

White Wolf is a publisher of role-playing games, notably the World of Darkness.White Wolf may also refer to:*White Wolf , a location in Yosemite National Park*White Wolf , a Canadian heavy metal band...

's Demon: The Fallen

Demon: The Fallen

Demon: The Fallen is a role-playing game and a fictional setting from the World of Darkness line by White Wolf Game Studio. The player characters in the game are fallen angels, who were cast out of paradise after a thousand year war with God.- History :...

.

Acting

Ward has also been a member of the Theatre of Blood repertory company where she acted and also wrote. Ward wrote and produced and acted in the short film Bad Reception which premiered at A Night of Horror 2009 and screened at the Vampire Film Festival in New Orleans. Ward has also worked as an assistant director and sound recordist in a number of short films., for instance as sound recordist on Indulgence (1996) (written and directed by Glenn Fraser).

Artwork

Ward also has contributed artwork for various publications including Fables and Reflections, the cover of Epiphanies of Blood: Tales of Desperation and Thirst, Southern Blood, Borderlands, Bloodsongs, Tabula-Rasa, and Burnt Toast.

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Work	Category	Result
2002	Ditmar Award Ditmar Award The Ditmar Award has been awarded annually since 1969 at the Australian National Science Fiction Convention to recognise achievement in Australian science fiction and science fiction fandom...	"The Boneyard"	Best short fiction	Nomination
2002	Ditmar Award	Tabula-Rasa (with David Carroll)	Best fan production	Nomination
2003	Aurealis Award Aurealis Award Aurealis Award for Excellence in Speculative Fiction is an annual literary award for Australian science fiction, fantasy and horror fiction. Only Australians are eligible for the award.-History:...	"Kijin Tea"	Best horror short story Aurealis Award for best horror short story The Aurealis Awards are presented annually by the Australia-based Chimaera Publications and SpecFaction NSW to published works in order to "recognise the achievements of Australian science fiction, fantasy, and horror writers"...	Nomination
2004	Ditmar Award	"Kijin Tea"	Best short story	Nomination
2006	Aurealis Award	Prismatic (with Evan Paliatseas and David Carroll as Edwina Grey)	Best horror novel Aurealis Award for best horror novel The Aurealis Awards are presented annually by the Australia-based Chimaera Publications and SpecFaction NSW to published works in order to "recognise the achievements of Australian science fiction, fantasy, horror writers"...	Won
2007	Ditmar Award	Prismatic (with Evan Paliatseas and David Carroll as Edwina Grey)	Best novel	Nomination
2007	Ditmar Award	"The Bat's Boudoir"	Best short story	Nomination

Novels

• Prismatic (2006, with Evan Paliatseas and David Carroll as Edwina Grey)

Short fiction

• "The Feast" (1999) in Aurealis
  Aurealis
  Aurealis is a Australian speculative fiction magazine published by Chimaera Publications. The magazine was launched in September 1990 to provide a market for speculative fiction writers, with a particular emphasis on raising the profile of Australian authors.In 1995 the magazine instituted the...
  
  #24 (ed. Dirk Strasser, Stephen Higgins)
• "The Boneyard" (2001) in Gothic.net September 2001
• "Poison" (2002) in Passing Strange (ed. Bill Congreve
  Bill Congreve
  -Biography:Congreve's first work was published in 1987 with his short story "Collector" which was featured in the Summer 1986/1987 edition of Aphelion Science Fiction Magazine. In 1992 Congreve's first edited anthology was released by Five Islands Press, featuring a short story and introduction by...
  
  )
• "Sakoku" (2002) in Agog! Fantastic Fiction (ed. Cat Sparks)
• "Kijin Tea" (2003) in Agog! Terrific Tales (ed. Cat Sparks)
• "The Oracle of Brick and Bone" (2005) in Borderlands #5
• "The Bat's Boudoir" (2007) in Shadowed Realms
  Shadowed Realms
  Shadowed Realms was a dark flash fiction online magazine produced by Australian independent publisher Brimstone Press and edited by Angela Challis. A number of stories published in Shadowed Realms have won, or been nominated for, several speculative fiction awards. -Publication history:The first...
  
  #9
• "A Tour of the City of Assassins" (2009) in Ticon #4
• "Cursebreaker: The Welsh Widow and the Wandering Wooer" (2010) in Scary Kisses (ed. Liz Grzyb)
• "Erina Hearn and the God of Death" (2010) in Macabre: A Journey Into Australia's Worst Fears (ed. Angela Challis & Marty Young)

Poetry

• The Land of Bad Dreams (edited by Charles (Danny) Lovecraft). Sydney: P'rea Press, 2011. ISBN 978-0-9804625-7-9. Illustrated by the author.

Poems

• "Mary" (1994) in Bloodsongs #3 (ed. Chris A. Masters, Steve Proposch)
• "Herbal Tea" (1995) in Bloodsongs #6 (ed. Steve Proposch)
• "Night Cars" (1999) in Abaddon #2
• "The Land of Dreams Gone Bad" (2011) in Midnight Echo #5
• "The Exorcism" (2011) in Midnight Echo #5

Role-playing games

• Mystical Places
• "Arcanities" (2001)
• "The Schriebach Estate" (2001)
• "The Scalper" (2009) in Eden Studio Presents #3
• The Demon Storyteller's Guide (2002, co-author)
• "Suffer the Children" (2003) in Fear to Tread
• "The Court of Chimera" (2009) in Eden Studio Presents #3
• "Dominion" (2009) in Pyramid Magazine #3/10

Contributed to:

• The Demon Players' Guide (2003)
• Damned and Deceived: the Book of Thralls (2003)
• Demon: The Earthbound (2003)
• Time of Judgment
  Time of Judgment
  Time of Judgment is a series of roleplaying game scenario books for the World of Darkness settings of White Wolf Game Studio. These scenarios are presented as the semi-canonical endings of the original World of Darkness, as preparation for the new version of the setting...
  
  (2004)

Scripts

• Bad Reception (2008) directed by Andrew Orman, 4TOD Productions. Screened at A Night Of Horror 2009, and the Vampire Film Festival 2009
• Chocolate Curses, "a comedy in dubious taste." (2010) directed by Steve Hopley. Played as part of the Season II program of the Theatre of Blood

Essays

• "Scaring the Children" in Bloodsongs #8 (ed. Steve Proposch)
• "Playing the Classics: Role Playing Your Favorite Novels" (2002) in Black Gate
  Black Gate (magazine)
  Black Gate is a glossy, quarterly fantasy magazine founded in 2000 and published by New Epoch Press. Using the slogan "Adventures in Fantasy Literature," Black Gate primarily features original short fiction up to novella length....
  
  (ed. John O'Neill
  John O'Neill (editor)
  John O'Neill is an Ottawa born writer, founder, editor and publisher of Black Gate magazine, a quarterly fantasy magazine first published in 2000. O'Neill holds a doctorate in Chemical Engineering and continued to work in the high technology area...
  
  )

Articles

• "Gaming Freeform" (1994) in Australian Realms #17
• "Australia" (1996) in The BFI Companion to Horror (ed. Kim Newman
  Kim Newman
  Kim Newman is an English journalist, film critic, and fiction writer. Recurring interests visible in his work include film history and horror fiction—both of which he attributes to seeing Tod Browning's Dracula at the age of eleven—and alternate fictional versions of history...
  
  )
• "Castle, Sweet Castle" (2002) in d20weekly.com
• "Get Lost" (2004) in Dragon #326
• "Tomb Raider" (2005) in Dragon #327
• "The Petit Tarrasque and Other Monsters" (2005) in Dragon #329
• "Australian Gargoyles" (2007) in Art Monthly Australia #200
• "Coffin Culture" (2008) in Black: Australian Dark Culture #3
• "Dark Humour in Revelation of the Daleks" (2010, with David Carroll and Kate Orman
  Kate Orman
  Kate Orman is an Australian author, best known for her books connected to the British science-fiction television series Doctor Who.-Biography:...
  
  ) in Burnt Toast
• "Symbolism" (2010, with David Carroll and Kate Orman) in Burnt Toast
• "Dungeons and Deadlines" (2011) in WQ Magazine

External links

• Official site
• Kyla Ward at Tabula Rasa
• Kyla Ward at the Internet Movie Database
  Internet Movie Database
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