Bibliography

Books

• The River Has Roots, Tordotcom Publishing, March 2025. Available in print, ebook or audio; translated into Spanish and Italian.
• This Is How You Lose the Time War, with Max Gladstone, Saga Press, July 2019. Available in print, ebook or audio; translated into over ten languages. Optioned by WIIP.
• The Honey Month, in print from Papaveria Press (May 2010) and e-book from Cheeky Frawg Books (October 2011).

Comics

• "A Tale of Two Markets," art by Isa Hanssen, in Jim Henson's The Storyteller: Tricksters, Boom Studios/Archaia (November 2021).

Short Fiction

• "Any Work Worth Doing," From a Certain Point of View: Return of the Jedi, August 2023
• "John Hollowback and the Witch," The Book of Witches, edited by Jonathan Strahan, August 2023
• "Florilegia; Or, Some Lies About Flowers," The Mythic Dream, edited by Dominik Parisien and Navah Wolfe, November 2019.
• “A Tale of Ash in Seven Birds,” The Djinn Falls in Love & Other Stories, edited by Mahvesh Murad and Jared Shurin, March 2017
• "Anabasis," Tor.com, part of Nevertheless, She Persisted, March 2017
• “Seasons of Glass and Iron,” in The Starlit Wood: New Fairy Tales, edited by Dominik Parisien and Navah Wolfe, October 2016
  • Reprinted in Uncanny Magazine, November 2016
• “Fire and Ice,” Bookburners Season 2 Episode 7, Realm
• “Madeleine,” Lightspeed 61, special “Queers Destroy Science Fiction” issue edited by Seanan McGuire, June 2015
• “Pockets,” Uncanny Magazine, Issue 2, January 2015
  • Selected for LeVar Burton Reads, August 2020
• “The Rag Man Mulls Down the Day,” audio only, in PodCastle‘s “DRINK ME (A Flash Fiction Extravaganza)” special issue.
• “The Truth About Owls,” in Kaleidoscope: Diverse YA, Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories, Twelfth Planet Press, August 2014
  • Reprinted in print and audio in Strange Horizons, January 2016
  • Selected for LeVar Burton Reads, January 2018
• “The Lonely Sea in the Sky,” Lightspeed 49, special “Women Destroy Science Fiction” issue edited by Christie Yant, June 2014
• “Mon pays c’est l’hiver,” Lackington’s, Issue 1, February 2014
• “A Hollow Play,” Glitter & Mayhem, September 2013
• “Wing,” Strange Horizons, December 2012
• “The Singing Fish,” in The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities, edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer, July 2011
• “To Follow the Waves,” in Steam-Powered: Lesbian Steampunk Stories, January 2011. Also available as a podcast from PodCastle.
  • Reprinted in The Mammoth Book of Steampunk, edited by Sean Wallace, April 2012
  • Reprinted in Heiresses of Russ 2012, edited by Connie Wilkins and Steve Berman, October 2012
  • Reprinted in Steampunk III: Revolutions, edited by Ann VanderMeer, October 2012
• “The Green Book,” Apex Magazine, Issue 18, November 2010. Nominated for a Nebula Award.
  • Reprinted in The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 2011, edited by Rich Horton
• “Tarot de Gaga,” Weird Tales #356, “Uncanny Beauty” issue, October 2010
• “And Their Lips Rang with the Sun,” Strange Horizons, October 2009. Also available as a podcast from PodCastle.
• “Connla mac Lia and the Kingship of Eriu,” Cabinet des Fées, Issue 8
• “The Fishbowl,” Shimmer: The Clockwork Jungle Book, Issue 11.
• “Night of the Girl Goblin,” Cabinet des Fées 2
• “Sparrow and Egg,” Shimmer, Issue 6
• “The Crow’s Caw,” Shimmer, Issue 4

Essays

• “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Desolation of Armies,” Uncanny, Issue 3, April 2015
• “Our Time Lords in the North,” Tor.com, February 2013
• “Voice Like a Stair: Story of a Collaboration,” Tor.com, April 2012
• “Science Fiction Poetry: Worlds of Potential,” Apex, April 2012
• “Whoso Hunts to List,” Shimmer Magazine‘s Blog, January 2011
• “Winding Down the House: Towards a Steampunk Without Steam,” Tor.com, for their Steampunk Fortnight, October 2010.

Reviews and Criticism

New York Times Book Review

• "Storytelling Can Be a Dangerous Game," Otherworldly, May 2022
• "Ordinary People, Extraordinary Circumstances," Otherworldly, April 2022
• "Rave, Roam and Rage," Otherworldly, February 2022
• "The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Books of 2021"
• "Memory, That Unreliable Narrator," Otherworldly, December 2021
• "Beasts and Baseball," Otherworldly, September 2021
• "Legends Remade," Otherworldly, July 2021
• "A Sense of Belonging," Otherworldly, May 2021
• "Voyages of Hope and Anguish," Otherworldly, April 2021
• "Mystery Boxes and Budding Loves," Otherworldly, January 2021
• "Dealmakers and Wanderers," Otherworldly, October 2020
• "Power and Passage," Otherworldly, August 2020
• "Visit These Science-Fiction Worlds to Make Sense of Our Own," Otherworldly, May 2020
• "Alive From New York"
• "A Poltergeist Who Adores Apricots and Cat-Loving A.I.," Otherworldly, December 2019
• "Dark Books for Dark Times," Otherworldly, October 2019
• "Got Any Time-Travel Plans This Summer?" Otherworldly, May 2019
• "Sublime New Fantasy Fiction," Otherworldly, February 2019
• "Ghosts, Robots and Monsters," Otherworldly, November 2018
• "The Best New Fantasy Novels," Otherworldly, October 2018
• "Heart-Hammering Science Fiction and Fantasy Thrillers," Otherworldly, June 2018
• "Princesses, Priestesses and Time Travel," Otherworldly, April 2018
• “A Novelist Asks, What if Women’s Bodies Became Deadly Weapons?”

NPR Books

• "A Monk And A Robot Meet In A Forest ... And Talk Philosophy In This New Novel"
• "A Year Of Falling Stars, Evening Swims And Friendship: Animal Crossing Turns One"
• "The World Of 'Elatsoe' Mixes Humor And Horror (And Ghost Dogs)"
• "'Finna' Warns: Beware Of The Fuzzy Chairs"
• "Sprawling 'Revisionaries' Impresses And Exasperates In Equal Measure"
• "You'll Float Away On The Warm Waters Of 'The Starless Sea'"
• "'Palestine + 100' Explores Contested Territory, Past And Future"
• "A Renaissance Fanatic Is Reborn — Again And Again — In 'Lent'"
• "Building A Home Of Stories In 'The Bird King'"
• "'Tram Car 015' Is A Delightful Ride"
• "'Black Leopard, Red Wolf' Is A Beast Of A Book"
• "Gorgeous 'Black Future Month' Tracks A Writer's Development"
• "'Little' Considers Power, Personhood, And Wax Artistry"
• "'Silver' Spins Gold From The Moldiest Of Old Straw"
• "Deep, Compassionate 'Tess Of The Road' Contains A Whole World"
• "'This Is Not A Love Letter' Really Is A (Heartbreaking) Love Letter"
• "Binti's Story Is Finished — But Don't Expect Completion"
• "'This Mortal Coil' Will Get You All Twisted Up"
• “‘Rules Of Magic’ Blends The Charm Of The Familiar With New Enchantments”
• “‘Unkindness Of Ghosts’ Transposes The Plantation’s Cruelty To The Stars”
• “In A Future Ruled By Big Pharma, A Robot Tentatively Explores Freedom — And Sex: ‘Autonomous’”
• “In ‘Shadowhouse Fall,’ Magical Threats Map Real-World Peril”
• “The Wind Still Blows Through The Willows — And Along ‘The River Bank’”
• “In ‘The Stone Sky,’ Some Worlds Need To Burn”
• “The Charm Of ‘Spoonbenders’ Is No Cheap Trick”
• “‘The Changeling’ Is, Itself, A Changeling Of A Book”
• “‘Mormama’ Is A House Built On Quicksand”
• “Hip, Hippo Hooray For ‘River Of Teeth’”
• “‘The Pearl Thief’ Is Part Murder Mystery, Part Coming-Of-Age Tale”
• “Find Your Way Across this Misty, Mysterious ‘Frontier’”
• “‘Brimstone’ Burns Brightly, Despite a Few Flaws”
• “Find Your Way Across this Misty, Magic ‘Frontier’”
• “A Spacefarer’s Next Great Adventure Begins at ‘Home’”
• “The Bear and the Nightingale is a Rich Winter’s Tale”
• “Iraq + 100 is Painful, But Don’t Look Away”
• “‘Certain Dark Things’ is a Compelling New Take on Vampires”
• “The Humor in Crosstalk Gets Lost in the Hubbub”
• “Everything Has Meaning in the Dream World of ‘Vellitt Boe’”
• “Riveting ‘Obelisk Gate’ Shatters the Stillness”
• “‘Icon’ Keeps the Shutters Clicking and the Danger Growing”
• “Lonely ‘Hope’ Appears, But Is Quickly Forgotten”
• “Stars Tell the Story of this Fairy Tale Inspired ‘Queen’”
• “Reading Between Worlds With Griffin and Sabine”
• “No Paper Tiger, This ‘Menagerie’ Is Full of Fierce Feeling”
• “‘Borderline’ Is Urban Fantasy With a Cinematic Punch”
• “Catch this ‘Midnight Taxi’ to a Magical Brooklyn”
• “All Hail the Glow Cloud: ‘Night Vale’ Welcomes Readers”
• “Cities of Bone and Flights of Fancy in Updraft”
• “Sorcerer is a Delightful Romp with Deep, Solid Roots”
• “The Waters of Lagoon Are Choppy but Enthralling”
• “Cold Iron Asks: What if Tolkien Had Been American?”
• “Shadowshaper Paints a Vibrant Picture”
• “Philosopher Kings Leaves Plato’s Republic Far Behind”
• “The Craft Sequence: Please Do Judge These Books By Their Covers”
• “Friendship, Magic and Danger Blossom in Uprooted”
• “The Science of Collected Fiction is Pure Magic”
• “Flexible, Fluid Revision Bounces from Rom-Com to Sci-Fi”
• “Rome’s Might Meets Arabian Nights in Ember in the Ashes”
• “Sprawling Soaring Grace of Kings Changes Fantasy Landscape”
• “Persona is a Dangerous Dance of Diplomacy and Celebrity”
• “In Shadow, Change and Growth as a Story Sheds its Scales”
• “Creepy, Brilliant Touch Will Possess You”
• “The Galaxy Game is Rich and Strong as a Shot of Rum”
• “The Consolations (and Controversies) of Philosophy in A Just City”
• “Walking Through Light-Filled Rooms in A Woman Without a Country”
• “Heap House is a Treasure of a Trash Tale”
• “The Accidental Highwayman Stands and Delivers”
• “The Witch With No Name Rides Into the Sunset, In Style”
• “Brilliant, Unsparing ‘Prelude’ Will Leave a Bruise”
• “False Equivalencies Mar This Bold ‘Face’”
• “Do You Dare to Venture Through These Tangled Woods?”
• “Can I Get a Do-Over? Shadow Selves and Second Chances”
• “Balancing Signal and Noise in Landline”
• “‘Hidden Sea’: What Happens When Fantasyland Doesn’t Want You?”
• “‘Kingfisher’ Girls Will Dance Their Way Into Your Heart”
• “Remembering Two Lives: Which are the ‘Real’ Children?”
• “The Memory Garden Grows with Grace and Tenderness”
• “From Flower to Factory, These Bees Are No Bumblers”
• “Nothing More to Lose Forges a Connection to Palestine”
• “Kim Harrison’s Hollows: the Good, the Bad, and the Bad-Ass”
• “A Delicate Arson: The Blazing World by Siri Hustvedt”
• “Review: Ripper by Isabel Allende”
• “Crossroads and Coins: Naomi Mitchison’s Travel Light”
• “Review: Hild by Nicola Griffith”

Other

• “Watchmaker of Filigree Street is a Magical Tale of Victorian London,” LA Times
• “In Praise of Sequels,” Lightspeed column, March 2017
• “Bones, Marrow, Flight,” Lightspeed column, December 2016
• “Time Zones, Space Hours, and Clockwork,” Lightspeed column, May 2016
• “Language, Roads, Intersection,” Lightspeed column, March 2016
• “Fairy Tale Feasts,” Lightspeed column, December 2015
• “Roots, Connections, Old Gods and New,” Lightspeed column, September 2015
• “Friendship, Chosen Family, Queer Communities,” Lightspeed column, June 2015
• “Aqueduct Press’ Congress of Ghosts,” Lightspeed column, March 2015
• Rich and Strange, a weekly short fiction review column on Tor.com
• “Review: _Promised Lands: Poems from the sovereign of dishpan sonnets_by JT Stewart,” Stone Telling 9.

Poetry

• “The New Ways,” Uncanny, Issue 1, November 2014
• “Turning the Leaves,” Apex, Issue 55, December 2013
• “This Talk of Poems,” Mythic Delirium 0.1_,_ September 2013
• “Lost,” Strange Horizons, February 2013
• “A Circle in Five Strands,” Stone Telling 8
• “Pieces,” reprinted in The Moment of Change: An Anthology of Feminist Speculative Literature, edited by Rose Lemberg, May 2012.
• “On the Division of Labour,” reprinted in The Moment of Change: An Anthology of Feminist Speculative Literature, edited by Rose Lemberg, May 2012.
• “She Knocks,” Mythic Delirium 26
• “No Poisoned Comb,” Apex, Issue 35
• “Asteres Planetai,” Stone Telling 7
• “In Search of a North Countrie,” Apex, Issue 29
• “Pieces,” Stone Telling, Issue 4
• “Stairs in Her Hair,” in Welcome to Bordertown, edited by Ellen Kushner and Holly Black
• “The Winter Tree,” Stone Telling, Issue 2
• “Eshet Hayil,” Stone Telling, Issue 1
• “Schehirrazade,” Sybil’s Garage no. 7
• “Courting Song for Selkies,” Ideomancer, vol. 9, issue 2, co-written with Jessica P. Wick
• “Orpheus,” Cabinet des Fées’ Sheherezade’s Bequest, April 2010
• “Beggin’ Death,” Jabberwocky 4, July 2009, co-written with Jessica P. Wick
• “Apple Jack Tangles the Maidy Lac with a Red, Red Ribbon,” Mythic Delirium 20, July 2009, co-written with Jessica P. Wick
• “The Maiden to the Fox Did Say,” Lone Star Stories, April 2009, co-written with Nicole Kornher-Stace
• “Song for an Ancient City,” Mythic Delirium 19, Winter 2008
• “Damascus Divides the Lovers by Zero, or, the City is Never Finished,” Lone Star Stories, December 2008, co-written with Catherynne M. Valente
• “The Night Sisters,” Ideomancer, vol. 8, issue 1
• “Briar Witches,” Aberrant Dreams, April 2008, co-written with Jessica P. Wick
• “Orpheus,” Sybil’s Garage no. 5, February 2008
• “X,” Astropoetica, Summer 2007
• “On the Division of Labour,” Mythic Delirium 16, Winter/Spring 2007
• “The Widow’s Tale,” Illumen, Spring 2007
• “Golem’s Song,” Abyss & Apex, July 2006
• “The Temptation of Little Red Ridinghood,” Chiaroscuro, July 2006
• “West on the 148,” Astropoetica, Spring 2006
• “Forfeit,” Star*Line, July/August 2006
• “West o’the Moon,” Star*Line, Sept/Oct 2005
• “Loki,” Star*Line, July/August 2005