Nancy Schumann

Nancy Schumann has a master’s degree in English Literature from the University of Leipzig, Germany, and has been researching, reading and writing female vampires for several years. An extended version of her MA thesis Take a Bite was published in 2011. In this innovative analysis of folklore and Anglo-American literature, Nancy Schumann explores the representation of vampiresses from the Romantic era through to the Post-Modern.

In addition to academic texts on female vampires Nancy enjoys writing fiction in both, German or English. A number of poems have been published in a variety of books and magazines, such as the Frankfurter Bibliothek des zeitgenössischen Gedichts, annual German poetry collection from 2000 to present, or Gothic II and III. Short stories include The Hostel published by Hic Dragones in the Impossible Spaces anthology and Fanged Flowers (available for Kindle on Amazon.co.uk. Nancy also does translations between German and English.

Feel free to visit Nancy on the web at www.bookswithbite.in or on Twitter @TweetsWithBite.

Publications
Nancy Schumann, A Winter’s Tale. In: Hannah Kate (ed); Into the Woods. Hic Dragones, Manchester 2017.

Nancy Schumann. Kaffeeduft in London. Net Verlag. Tangerhütte 2015.

Nancy Schumann. Das Dorf. In: Botschaften aus der Zwischenwelt. Net Verlag. Tangerhütte 2015.

Nancy Schumann. Vampire – gestern und heute. Bohmeier Verlag. Leipzig 2013.

Nancy Schumann, The Hostel. In: Hannah Kate (ed); Impossible Spaces. Hic Dragones, Manchester 2013.

Schumann, N (2013). Women with Bite: Tracing Vampire Women from Lilith to Twilight. In: Brodman B, Doan JE (ed); The Universal Vampire: Origins and Evolution of a Legend. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press

Schumann, N (2011). Take A Bite. London: CallioSoph.

Upcoming Publications
Nancy Schumann; Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Square. In: Hannah Kate (ed); Nothing. Hic Dragones, Manchester 2017.