Alexandra Sokoloff

Alexandra Sokoloff is an American novelist and screenwriter who splits her time between Raleigh, North Carolina, and Los Angeles. Her books often concern paranormal phenomena, such as spirit hauntings.

Her debut novel, the ghost story The Harrowing, was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel, as well as an Anthony Award for Best First Novel.

After college she moved to Los Angeles, where she first worked in the Los Angeles County prison system as a teacher of juvenile detainees — male gang members and young women prostitutes. This experience later informed her vision for novels like Hunger Moon (2017), a work in which human trafficking of young women is a significant theme. It received acclaim, was reviewed at the time or retrospectively by a variety of outlets, was nominated for multiple major awards, and cemented Sokoloff as a new writer to watch. Originally discussed in an issue of 2006, and posted in 2010 online, Kirkus summed it up as "a little scary, a lot silly, boast[ing] the big-screen virtues of quick pace and an engaging plot;" however, "in the end, it reads more like young-adult fare than a book for grownups."

Style In a discussion about The Harrowing, SFFWorld said the author "writes camera-ready prose – concise, direct, visual – so that [their work] proceeds somewhat like a movie, in well-realized scenes giving a sense of a camera following [characters]," like a screenwriter would in a script.

Personal life She lives in Los Angeles and in Scotland, with her husband, the Scottish crime author Craig Robertson.

Awards The Harrowing, was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award, as well as an Anthony Award for Best First Novel Her short story "The Edge of Seventeen" was the recipient of a 2009 International Thriller Writers Award. Huntress Moon, nominated for International Thriller Writers Award for Best eBook Original Novel and 2013 Kindle Book Award (Mystery/Thriller)