What I’m Reading, March 2018
This morning I want to share with you all some fiction that I’ve read and loved over the last few weeks. There’s no particular order here, just words that have been on my mind. “A Witches Guide to...
View ArticleFlash Fiction in GlitterShip
Issue 53 of GlitterShip includes some lovely poetry, a wonderful short story, and flash fiction by yours truly, “Ports of Perceptions.” Keffy’s wonderful reading of my piece made my day. “Ports of...
View ArticleThe Good Mothers’ Home for Wayward Girls
My horror story “The Good Mothers’ Home for Wayward Girls” is now available in audio and full-text from PseudoPod. It’s a story that is dear to me, in part because I wrote the first draft at Clarion...
View ArticleWhen Creation Falls
I’m delighted to announce that my poetry collection When Creation Falls is now available. I’m so pleased to be able to share it with you, and I think you’ll agree with me that Meadowlark Books did an...
View ArticleWhat I’m Reading (June 2018)
I meant this to be a monthly series, but that was always too ambitious, especially given the rhythms of the academic calendar. Here’s a sampling of my favorite reads from the last few months, in no...
View ArticleGood News
I’ve been remiss in not updating this blog with good news I’ve received of late (and one piece of good news I received a while back and forgot to mention here). Here goes! “All the Hometowns You Can’t...
View ArticleResist Fascism is out now!
Travel and work obligations have kept me busy of late, and I’ve been remiss in not mentioning here that Crossed Genres’ micro-anthology Resist Fascism it out now! It features awesome stories from 9...
View Article2018 Awards Eligibility Post
Though I can hardly believe it, awards nomination season is upon us. The Nebula Awards have begun accepting nominations (note that this year, both Active and Associate members can vote!). Others will...
View ArticleOn superheroes, deification, and the relationship between writer and reader
Today’s the day! My short story “The Crafter at the Web’s Heart” is up at Apex! I wrote the first draft of this story at Clarion West 2017, which makes it the second CW story to appear, the first...
View ArticleAll the concepts I can’t stay away from
Many years ago, I wrote a poem that included the following phrase: “home is the place you return to and find no longer exists.” That concept, a variation on “you can’t go home again,” has haunted me....
View Article2019 Awards Eligibility Post
It’s that time of year again where thoughts turn to holidays, winter or summer fun (depending on where one resides) and awards eligibility posts. Okay, maybe not that last one. But it’s standard...
View ArticleI am Invisible: Trans Communities and the Cis Gaze
I have a new story out in Abyss & Apex, about trans bodies, trans communities, and responding to the cis gaze: “Five Reasons for the Sign Above Her Door, One of Them Unspoken.” I can’t talk about...
View ArticleThe Grass Bows Down, the Pilgrims Walk Lightly
In January 2020 (roughly 10 months ago in linear time, and approximately six million years ago in 2020-Subjective time), Analog Science Fiction and Fact published a story of mine, “The Grass Bows...
View Article2020 Awards Eligibility
Writing anything about what occurred in 2020 seems impossible. What can I can said that isn’t already expressed in the Elmo on Fire gif? I did publish several stories this year, though, and an award...
View ArticleThe Grass Bows Down, the Pilgrims Walk Lightly
By Izzy Wasserstein [Author’s Note: This story was originally published in the Jan/Feb 2020 issue of Analog Science Fiction and Fact.] ~~~ My mother kept an old faith, and when I was young she would...
View ArticleWitches, Suffering, and (Possibly) Triumph
For, while the tale of how we suffer, and how we are delighted, and how we may triumph is never new, it always must be heard. There isn’t any other tale to tell, it’s the only light we’ve got in all...
View Article2021 Awards Eligibility Post
In 2021 I published four stories, all of which I’m quite proud of. They’re listed here in the order they were published. I’d be honored if you’d read any or all of them. “Dead at the Feet of a God” in...
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