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  • Story sale to Strange Horizons

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    I’m delighted to announce that I’ve sold a story to Strange Horizons: “Water, Birch, and Blood” will be appearing in SH’s special issue Our Queer Planet. “Water, Birch, and Blood” is about family, memory, and loss; it’s got echoes of my own memories in it, through the setting (a Finnish summer cabin). I can’t wait…

  • Story sale to Flash Fiction Online

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    Sooo this was official already last week and I squeed about it on Twitter but did not have time to post here: I’ve sold a story to Flash Fiction Online! My faerie story “Creation” will be out this summer. This is my second pro fiction sale – the first was to An Alphabet of Embers.…

  • Alphabet of Embers review

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    An Alphabet of Embers launches this week, at the Nebula Awards! And here’s a lovely review of it, in which the reviewer Christina lists my story “The City Beneath the Sea” among those they particularly appreciated: “Embers maintains a consistent and cohesive feel throughout: it stories are literary and poetic, with a fluidity of style…

  • Sunday recs: Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers

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    Long time no rec on the blog – I’ve been posting occasional recs on Twitter, but this blog has been quiet. But now — it’s Mothers’ Day in Finland, and how better to celebrate than by recommending a creepy story? Alyssa Wong’s Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers (in Nightmare Magazine, originally published in the Queers…

  • Recharging

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    Long time no post. It’s been a ridiculously busy year so far, and sadly, due to the mountain of work, I haven’t been writing nearly as much as I’d like. I joined Camp Nanowrimo with the intent to get lots of my novel revised, but alas, I’ve had to conserve energy for self-care and such.…

  • New poem: “Witch’s Lens” in Polu Texni

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    My poem “Witch’s Lens” is out in Polu Texni! Read it here: “My witchery awakens / with the rising season.” I wrote this poem in April 2014, and edited it around a year later based on feedback from my writing group. (Yes, sometimes my poetry progresses veeery slowly, with edits happening ages after the first…

  • Sunday recs

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    Three powerful stories this Sunday: A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers, by Alyssa Wong (on Tor.com). This story about weather-bending sisters and apocalypses is quite personally painful for me. But good, so good! Not an easy story, but very much worth the read. Makeisha in Time, by Rachael K. Jones (in Crossed Genres).…

  • An Alphabet of Embers update!

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    Aaasdgjhsdg I got my pre-release contributor ebook copy of Alphabet of Embers (ed. by Rose Lemberg)! The official print and ebook launch will be on the Nebula awards weekend, 12-15 May. The book has a Goodreads page already! I just. Incoherence and happiness, right now. I reread my story (it’s in an actual book! along…

  • Sunday recs: poetry from the classroom

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    I’m teaching a literature tutorial this spring, and in our final class on poetry, I made my students read some speculative poetry. I wanted them to see that poetry can involve any genre, and be more than just the classic (and wonderful!) stuff we’ve been reading. So here are the poems from newer writers that…

  • Poem sale to Strange Horizons

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    “Oh frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!” she chortled in her joy. So yeah, I’ve sold a poem to Strange Horizons! Huzzah! “Taboo” will appear this summer. It’s got a fox in it. I’m intensely happy about this, my first poetry sale of 2016. I love SH so much. This will be my third poem appearing in…