Idris Singh is an American horror author whose work fuses Midwest folklore, immigrant family sagas, and body terror. Raised in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, he studied anthropology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and earned an MFA in creative writing from the University of Minnesota. His novella Huskwater won the Midwest Book Award in 2022, and his collection Static Lake and Other Hollows was a Shirley Jackson Award finalist in 2024. His short fiction has appeared in Nightmare, The Dark, and Apex, and his essays on rural hauntings have been featured in regional arts journals.
Singh lives in Saint Paul with his partner and a rescue mutt named Fen. When he isn't writing, he teaches community workshops, volunteers at the Ramsey County Library, and hikes bog boardwalks for field notes, collecting the small, uncanny details that root his fiction in the grain of real places.
