Angela Yuriko Smith

Angela Yuriko Smith is a Ryukyuan-American (also described as Shimanchu-American) writer and publisher. Her publishing house is named Yuriko, which was her grandmother's given name. She has won two Bram Stoker Awards.

, she is president of the international Horror Writers Association.

Writing

Smith's 2024 novel Inujini is a fictionalized account of events around the Battle of Okinawa.

Her 2024 book How to Be an Authortunist has been described as "a catchy, creative how-to on writing and publishing". Awards Smith's Tortured Willows: Bent. Bowed. Unbroken., co-authored with Geneve Flynn, Lee Murray, and Christina Sng, won the 2021 Bram Stoker Award for Best Poetry Collection.

She won the 2021 Bram Stoker Award for Best Short Non-Fiction for her piece "Horror Writers: Architects of Hope" in issue 55 of The Sirens Call, Halloween 2021. and her Unquiet Spirits: Essays by Asian Women in Horror, co-edited with Lee Murray, was nominated for the 2023 Bram Stoker Award for Best Non-Fiction.