Margaret Killjoy
American author and musician
Margaret Killjoy is an American author, musician, and podcast host. She is best known for her speculative fiction in the fantasy and folk horror genres, in particular for her three-book Danielle Cain series. Killjoy is involved in several musical projects across genres, including black metal, neofolk, and electronica. She founded the feminist black metal band Feminazgûl in 2018. She is a host of the anarchist and left wing history podcast Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff, and the survival and community preparedness podcast Live Like The World is Dying.
Life
Killjoy is an anarchist, feminist, and anti-fascist. She is a transgender woman. Killjoy spent much of her early adult life as a "squatter and wanderer", then in the late 2010s began building a small cabin in the Appalachian Mountains on an anarchist land project.
Career
Writing
Killjoy's fiction writing includes queer, anarchist fantasy and folk horror. Killjoy published What Lies Beneath the Clock Tower, a steampunk interactive novel, in 2011.
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