Marissa van Uden is an editor and writer from Aotearoa-New Zealand who now lives in rural Vermont, in a little cabin in the woods. She is the editor of The Off-Season: An Anthology of Coastal New Weird (Dark Matter Ink, 2024) and the Apex Strange Microfiction anthologies. She is also the EiC of the imprint Violet Lichen Books and an associate editor and interviewer for Apex Magazine.
Her fiction has appeared in Dark Matter Magazine, Zero Dark Thirty, Los Suelos, and Vastarien Literary Journal. She loves animals, wild things, and weird horror.