Lisa de Nikolits

Originally from South Africa, Lisa de Nikolits is the internationally acclaimed, award-winning author of 12 novels. Her short fiction and poetry have been published in various international anthologies and journals, including the Crime Writers of Canada 40th anniversary anthology, Cold Canadian Crime (2022).

Lisa has a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature and Philosophy, and has lived in the US, Australia and Britain. Previous works include: West of Wawa, Between The Cracks She Fell, A Glittering Chaos, The Witchdoctor’s Bones, No Fury Like That, The Rage Room and Everything You Dream is Real. (All published by Inanna Press.)

No Fury Like That was published in Italian in 2019 by Edizione Le Assassine under the title Una furia dell’altro mondo.

Lisa’s recent short fiction works appear in the 2025 Derringer nominated The 13th Letter, A Mesdames of Mayhem anthology, Imagine and Navigate (Windtree Press), and Devouring Tomorrow (Dundurn/Rare Machines). Her noir novel, Mad Dog and the Sea Dragon (Inanna Press) was published in Fall, 2025.

Lisa lives and writes in Toronto.