Waide Aaron Riddle
- Writer
- Producer
- Actor
Waide Riddle is an award-winning author, writer, playwright, screenwriter, and filmmaker.
His books and poems are archived at UCLA Library of Special Collections, Poets House/NYC, the Simon Weisenthal Center/Museum of Tolerance, and the Bodleian Library at Oxford University.
He won the L.A. LIVE Film Fest's 2019 Bradbury and Hemingway Award in Fiction and his short story, "Wicked Willows," won the 2024 Best Short Fantasy by The Andromeda literary magazine (UK).
Spill Words poetry journal (UK) published his Christmas poem "Washington Park" in December of 2023.
His short films, Two Men Kissing, Washington Park, Lost Hills, CA., Something Wicked Dwells, A Haunting In Arkansas, and The Lines In Their Faces are all award-winners and available on Vimeo/Short Films Matter.
Waide was born in Kingsville, Texas, and raised in the great city of Houston in the suburb of Spring Branch.
He now resides in Los Angeles.
