Books This Is How You Lose the Time War , with Max Gladstone, Saga Press, July 2019. Available in print, ebook or audio; translated into French, Korean, German and more. Optioned for TV by WIIP.The Honey Month , in print from Papaveria Press (May 2010) and e-book from Cheeky Frawg Books (October 2011).Comics Short Fiction
"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
“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
“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
“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 .
“The Green Book ,” Apex Magazine , Issue 18, November 2010. Nominated for a Nebula Award.
“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
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