If you want my scholarly work, check out my CV. This page is dedicated to my creative writing.
Me with the Spider Road Press 2018 Feminist Flash Fiction Award. Photo by Paul Pogue.
I set aside creative writing for a decade+ while pursuing my academic career, though I never stopped writing (I’ve maintained a daily journal since I was a teenager). In recent years, it’s become more important to me to work through my experiences creatively, which I do both through dance and writing. And just as I perform increasingly vulnerable dance pieces for audiences (example), I’m starting to publish my writing.
And, as seen at right, I’m an award-winning writer! And I published a whole darn book in 2021, Folklore 101!
Poetry:
2024 “Bluebeard” in The Orange & Bee issue one
2022 “Snow White Goes Gray” in Crow & Cross Keys
2021 “Rapunzel’s Mother(s)” and “You Can’t Just Leave Your Car These Days” in Patchwork Folklore Journal issue 1
2021 “Winter” and “Heartbroken” in Corporeal Lit Mag
2021 “Caged Thing” in Zero Readers issue 2
2021 “The Sleeper Awakened” in Enchanted Conversation, A Fairy Tale Magazine
2021 “Betrothed to a King,” “The Ogre’s Heart,” “Given or Sold or Stolen Away,” “Coat of a Thousand Furs,” and “The Old King Dreams” in Lothlorien Poetry Journal
2021 “Excerpts from Hans Christian Andersen’s ‘The Little Mermaid'” in Crow & Cross Keys
2021 “That Summer” in Global Poemic
2021 “Wires” in Stone of Madness issue 13
2021 “Swan Maiden,” “Fairies’ Gifts,” and “Half-Life of a Mermaid” in 3 Moon Magazine, issue 7, “Growing Malcontent” (link to PDF of the issue here)
2021 “The Twelve Brothers” in Nevermore Journal Anthology I
2020 “Selkie” in Quatrain.Fish
2020 “Tenacity” in Quatrain.Fish
2019 “What happened to the 12th dancing princess (circa 1946)” in Liminality‘s Fall 2019 issue
2019 “Numbering” in The Indianapolis Review, issue 10
2019 “Walking on Knives” in The Future Fire 2019.50, jubilee issue
2019 “Moon” in The Future Fire, issue 2019.49
2018 “Daddy Death” (a poem based on the Grimms’ “Godfather Death”) in Glittership‘s episode #62
2018 “Blunt Weapon” and “Daughter of Daedalus” in Wyrd & Wyse, Issue the Second, Spring 2018
2018 “The Witch’s House” in Liminality‘s Spring 2018 issue – nominated for the Rhysling Award!
2017 “Secrets” in Liminality‘s Fall 2017 issue
2017 “Seasick” in Strange Horizons 24 July 2017 issue
2017 “Worth the Wait” in the “Donkeyskin” issue of Enchanted Conversation, A Fairy Tale Magazine
2017 “King Wivern (or, an old Danish fairy tale with a happy ending)” in Mirror Dance‘s Summer 2017 issue
2016 “Woven of Silence and Thistles” in Stone Telling 13, the Hope issue
Fiction:
2022 “Divorce à la Snow Queen” at Vocal Media
2021 “Moral Module 6: Urashima Taro” in Antipodean SF
2021 “Grand” in Reflex Fiction
2020 “Good Men” in Volume 1 of AcademFic
2018 “Mother of Eden” (a “Snow White” retelling) in issue 10 of Timeless Tales Magazine
2018 “The Book You Find When You Really Can’t Afford to Get Pregnant” (winner of the Spider Road Press Feminist Flash Fiction Award), in Companion to the Ash (now available to read or listen to here, thanks to editor, podcaster, and do-all-the-things-er Julia Rios!)
Creative nonfiction/less-academic nonfiction/personal essays:
2021 “The Blood Libel is Back, Baby: Antisemitic Tropes in Folklore, Culture, and SFF” at Interstellar Flight Magazine
2021 “All the Weight Is Not Yours” in Dating & Sex: The Theory of Mutual Destruction edited by Amir Said
2020 “How I Was Cheated On In An Open Marriage…Twice” at Best Damn Writing Magazine
2020 “When Fairyland Is Not for You: On Escapism, Fantasy, and Survival” at The Wrangler
2017 “Rites of Passage” in Split: true stories about the end of marriage and what happens next edited by Katie West
Workshops I’ve taken:
Writing The Other: Creating Diverse Characters (2021)
Writing The Other: Character Arcs (2021)
The Storied Imaginarium (Intersections: Science Fiction, Fairy Tales, and Myth with Carina Bissett, 2021)
Classic Fast Flash with Kathy Fish (2021)