ANTONIA RACHEL WARD is an author of horror and speculative fiction, based in Cambridgeshire, UK. Her short stories and poetry have been published by Flame Tree Press, the British Science Fiction Association, and Dark Recesses, among others. She is the author of two novellas, MARIONETTE and ATTACK OF THE KILLER TUMBLEWEEDS, and her first novel, DREAMSCAPE, was published in October 2023. In 2024 she published her first poetry chapbook, THE PATRON (Querencia Press, July 2024).

She is also the founder and editor-in-chief of Ghost Orchid Press.

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THE PATRON is a collection of twenty horror poems loosely describing the relationship between two creatives—an artist and his patron—as they navigate a superficial and demanding world that ultimately drives them both to their deaths. Exploring the themes of creation and annihilation from a variety of angles, the collection asks: can we ever really know another person, or do we only see the version of them we conjure in our minds’ eye?

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