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Forthcoming:

Short story (novelette): “The Late Sowers” in Revolution in the Heart (Ursula K. Le Guin tribute anthology) edited by Jonathan Strahan, Fall 2026. (Preorder here!)

Published:

Short story (novelette): “The Shadow on the Nest” in Uncanny Magazine Issue 66, September/October 2025.

Short story (novelette): “The Jealous Wives of the Sea” in Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology. July 2025.

Short story (novelette): “What I Saw Before the War” in Reactor Magazine, January 2025.

Short story: “The Memorial Tree” in The Sunday Morning Transport, September 2024.

Short story (novelette): “A Brief Oral History of the El Zopilote Dock” in Clarkeworld Magazine, March 2024.

Personal essay: “The Study of Reality: On Trauma, Quantum Mechanics, and Writing Science Fiction” in Lit Hub, June 2023.

Novel: The Library of Broken Worlds. Scholastic Press, June 2023.

Short story (novelette): “The Witch Is Not the Monster.” In The Book of Witches, edited by Jonathan Strahan. Harper Voyager, August 2023.

Novella: “The Memory Librarian” in collaboration with Janelle Monáe. In The Memory Librarian by Janelle Monáe. Harper Voyager, April 2022.

Short story collection: Reconstruction. Small Beer Press, January 2021.

Short story: “The Mirages.” Asimov’s, Nov/Dec 2021.

Personal Essay: “Volviéndome.” In Come On In, edited by Adi Alsaid. Inkwell, October 2020.

Short Story: “The Rules of the Land.” In A Phoenix Must First Burn, edited by Patrice Caldwell. Viking, March 2020.

Novel: Trouble the Saints. Tor Books, July 2020.

Short Story: “A Hundred Thousand Threads.” In Three Sides of a Heart, edited by Natalie C. Parker. HarperTeen, December 2017.

Short Story: “The Subjunctive.” In Feral Youth, edited by Shaun David Hutchinson. Simon Pulse, September 2017.

Personal Essay: “Letter to Octavia Butler” in Luminescent Threads, edited by Alexandra Pierce and Mimi Mondal. Twelfth Planet Press, August 2017.

Novel (collective): Tremontaine, by Ellen Kushner, Malinda Lo, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Joel Derfner, Racheline Maltese, Patty Bryant & Paul Witcover. Saga Press, May 2017.

Novel: Love Is the Drug. Scholastic/Arthur A. Levine, October 2014. Winner of the 2015 Nebula (Andre Norton) award.

Short Story: “A Guide to the Fruits of Hawai’i.” The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, July/August 2014. Winner of the 2015 Nebula Award for novella.

Novel: The Summer Prince. Scholastic/Arthur A. Levine, March 2013.

Short Story: “They Shall Salt the Earth with Seeds of Glass.” Asimov’s Science Fiction, January 2013.

Novel: Wicked City. Thomas Dunne, April 2012 (a Zephyr Hollis novel, sequel to Moonshine).

Short Story/Novelette: “The Inconstant Moon.” Tor.com. April 4 2012 (a Zephyr Hollis novelette, prequel to Moonshine. Now available on Amazon!)

Short Story: “Their Changing Bodies.” Subterranean Magazine. Summer 2011 issue (special YA edition, edited by Gwenda Bond).

Short Story: “A Prince of Thirteen Days.” In Welcome to Bordertown (anthology) edited by Ellen Kushner and Holly Black, May 2011. (Reprinted in Fantasy Magazine, May 2011).

Novel: The Burning City. (Book 2 of The Spirit Binders). Agate Publishing, May 2010.

Novel: Moonshine. Thomas Dunne, May 2010.

Novel: “Detective Frankenstein“. Graphic Universe (Lerner) in March 2011.

Short Story: “Love Will Tear Us Apart.” In Zombies vs Unicorns (anthology) edited by Holly Black and Justine Larbalestier, September 2010.

Short Story: “The Yeast of Eire.” Strange Horizons, September 2009.

Short Story: “The Score.” In Interfictions 2 (anthology), Fall 2009.

Short Story: “A Song to Greet the Sun.” Fantasy Magazine, Fall 2009. (Part of the winning submission package for the Speculative Literature Foundation‘s Gulliver Travel Grant).

Short Story: “Far and Deep.” Interzone #221, March/April 2009.

Novel: “The Goblin King“. Graphic Universe (Lerner) in February 2009.

Short Story: “Down the Well” in Strange Horizons, August 2008.

Novel: Racing the Dark. (Book 1 of The Spirit Binders). Agate Publishing, October 2007.

Novella: “Shard of Glass” in Strange Horizons, February 2005. Reprinted in Year’s Best Fantasy #6, edited by David Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer. Shortlisted for the Carl Brandon Society Parallax award.

Short Story: “Third Day Lights” in Interzone issue #200, September/October 2005. Reprinted in Year’s Best SF #11, edited by David Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer.

Short Story: “Among Their Bright Eyes” in Fantasy Magazine issue #4, 2006.

Short story: “Who Ever Loved” in Arabella Magazine, December 2004

Poem: “Good for Hanging” in Chizine, Fall 2004. Honorable mention in The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror #18

Article: The Revenant of Tokyo Bay: Godzilla and the Japanese Ghost in The Internet Review of Science Fiction, March 2004.

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