Zealia B. (Zealia Brown) Bishop

Zealia Margaret Caroline Brown-Reed Bishop was an American writer born in Asheville, North Carolina, in 1897. After an early marriage and divorce, she lived in Cleveland, worked as a court reporter, studied journalism, and wrote stories and articles as part of her livelihood.

She is most often remembered for three horror stories associated with H. P. Lovecraft: The Curse of Yig, The Mound, and Medusa's Coil. Accounts of her career note that she turned to Lovecraft for help strengthening her fiction, and their correspondence became an important part of her literary story.

Bishop later lived in Kansas City with her second husband, Dauthard William Bishop Sr., and took part in several press and historical organizations. Although her horror work brought her lasting attention, sources describe romantic fiction as her main preference, and they also credit her with writing a historical series about Clay County, Missouri.