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Poetry* "Wool and Silk and Wood" in
Electric Velocipede #15/16, November 2008
* "Unruly Harvest" in
Polu Texni, December 2008
* "About a Girl" is a poem and a perfume; check it out at
Violette Market!
* "When Her Eyes Open" in
Lone Star Stories, February 2009; it was reprinted in the 2009 Eaton Science Fiction Conference's speculative poetry sampler, and was nominated for the Rhysling Award.
* "Twelve" in
Cabinet des Fees, March 2009
* "Nine Things About Oracles" in
Electric Velocipede #20 (2010)
* "The Library, After" in
Mythic Delirium #24; it won the Rhysling Award! Reprinted in
Mythic Delirium #30 and
The Nebula Awards Showcase 2014.
* "
The Changeling's Lament" in
Stone Telling #5; nominated for the Pushcart Prize, the Tiptree Award, and the Rhysling Award.
* "
Mushroom Barley Soup: An Invocation", in Stone Telling
#8; nominated for the Rhysling Award.
* "
nameless", in
Through the Gate #1* "The Oracle Never Dances", in
Mythic Delirium #27* "Ereshkigal's Proposal to Hades", in
Mythic Delirium #27* "
The Busker, Broke and Busted", Apex Magazine
#48, May 2013
* "
And the War is Never Over", Strange Horizons, May 2013
* "
Where We Died", Niteblade
#24, June 2013
* "Limbo" in
Flying Higher: An Anthology of Superhero Poetry.
* "
Not Too Bold", Niteblade
#25, September 2013
* "
The Binding",
Lakeside Circus, April 2015.
* "
Four Chambers",
Mythic Delirium, September 2015 (nominated for the Rhysling Award).
* "
The Word for Loss is Missing", Zetetic Record, November 2016
Short Fiction* "The Angel of Fremont Street" in
ChiZine, January 2009. It was shortlisted for the
Million Writers Award.
* "Fortune" in
Ravens in the Library: Magic in the Bard's Name, the
s00j benefit anthology.
Reprinted in ChiZine, May 2011.
* "Valentines" in
Interfictions 2, November 2009.
Reprinted in Apex Magazine, June 2011 and
The Mammoth Book of SF Stories by Women in December 2014.
* "And to My Wife" in
Electric Velocipede #20 (2010)
* "Salt Brides" in
Abyss & Apex, October 2010; it has been nominated for the
Micro Award.
* "Between Truth and Life" in
Steam Powered: Lesbian Steampunk Stories, January 2011;
podcast at Toasted Cake in February 2013.
* "The Portal to Heaven" in
Electric Velocipede #21 * "
I Am Thinking of You in the Spaces Between" in Apex Magazine, October 2011; it's on
Tangent Online's recommended reading list and is a
Million Writers Award Notable Story.
* "
Splinter", Apex Magazine, November 2012
* "
Happy Hour at the Tooth and Claw", in
Clockwork Phoenix 4. It's on
Tangent Online's Recommended Reading List.
* "
Becca at the End of the World", in Apex Magazine, October 2013. You can
listen to it at The Drabblecast. Reprinted in
Zombies: More Recent Dead, edited by Paula Guran, September 2014. Received an honorable mention in Ellen Datlow's
Year's Best Horror.
* "
The Final Girl" in
Strange Horizons, April 2014. It's on
Tangent Online's 2014 Recommended Reading List.
* "
The Selves We Leave Behind" ("The Angel of Fremont Street"/"Fortune") by Upper Rubber Boot Press, June 2014.
* "
The Cartographer's Requiem" in
The Journal of Unlikely Cartography, June 2014.
* "
Never Chose This Way",
Apex Magazine, July 2015
* "
In Our Rags of Light", Strange Horizons, August 2016; it's on the
2016 Tangent Online recommended reading list.
Nonfiction*
"Israel is Not My Birthright" on Salon.com, July 2014
EditingFlying Higher: An Anthology of Superhero Poetry, with Michael Damian Thomas.
Liminality, a Magazine of Speculative Poetry, with Mat Joiner (
ashlyme)
In process: Cicatrix is the seriously bent portal fantasy, Places You Haunt is the Vegas mythpunk, and Shayara is the political thriller urban fantasy.
Conventions 2017Undecided! I will not be at Arisia, and others will depend...
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What sort of thing is your friend looking to get published? Short stories and poetry are altogether different from novels, and articles, essays, and nonfiction books are very different, too...
2. Your good work on the saveours00j auction was legendary, so I was going to ask if you'd be willing to make that electronic archive available again as a fixed donation offer for
Thanks again for all you do.
And absolutely. There'll also be a hardcopy version of it Real Soon Now, so I can throw that in. I'll have to think on what else I can do.
Thank you :)
There's got to be a better way to construct the above sentence, by the way, but I don't know it. Do you?
I come by way of
Will hopefully be doing a crowdfunded project next week...
This is a good site.
Luck to him!
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Blessings,
Shadow
Well, technically to Brookline, for grad school, but that's close to Boston. But yes, I know absolutely nobody there right now.
Lightning-fast Brookline restaurant recommendation: You must eat at Zaftig.
This is Michelle, the redhead who was vending K's keys at Strowlercon. Just added you!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJqEKYbh-LU&feature=BFa&list=UL82IY0dTDhYo&index=3
(David Mitchell talks about a phrase that, IMHO, is part of the cultural giggle loop that keeps people in the UK from taking the word "rape" seriously, until they're forced to.)
I know your life is always busy, but this seemed right up your alley. :)
~Fishy
tia!
and happy holidays
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