Throughout the years, different authors and poets have confronted this social rejection and have been oppressed on matters like sexual orientation, race and nationality however have in the long run overcome such catastrophes.
Linda D. Addison is an American artist and author of horror, fantasies, and science fiction. Addison is the first African-American winner of the Bram Stoker Award, which she won twice for her accumulation of poems, ‘Consumed, Reduced to Beautiful Grey Ashes’ …show more content…
She is the eldest of nine kids destined to Janet Marie Webster (née Warrick) and J. Decarsta Webster. From an early age, Addison was roused by the force of story telling. Janet, a homemaker who never moved on from High School; daily entertained her kids with self created stories and stories, embeddings her youngsters as characters in her fantastical tales. The stories constantly finished on a note of puzzle and interest, rousing youthful Linda to further investigate the baffling and enchanted, light and dull, in the long run she started to diary her sentiments, stories and encounters laying the basis for her consequent profession as an …show more content…
At the New York’s Book County Festival, Addison met persuasive Science Fiction Author and Editor Frederik Pohl. As their talk swung to production, Pohl exhorted that keeping in mind the end goal to get distributed in Science Fiction "each one needs to compose a how the dinosaurs kicked the bucket story." Addison took the counsel and from a short story drafted a poem entitled "Why the Dinosaurs Died" it was distributed in Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine in 1997. Addison went ahead to be distributed a sum of four times in Asimov's Magazine between 1997 -