I have several things eligible for various awards this year (the Locus Awards, Stoker Awards, Nebulas, Hugos, and the not-strictly-speculative lit prizes, too)... including my first book! Thanks very much for considering these. If my writing resonated with you in 2025 or any other year, I'm thrilled.

Stillhouse Press, Oct. 2025. Eligible in the Short Story Collection, Debut Story Collection, Full-Length Work, and Debut Full-Length Work categories. Contact me if a PDF is desired.

• A collection of twelve dark, strange tales that explore the horrors of growing up in and inhabiting a body others seek to control

• Featured in Electric Literature, Book Riot, Literary Hub, Bookshop.org, This Is Horror, and more

• Reviewed by A.C. Wise, Alex Brown, The Masters Review, and others

• Stillhouse Press Horrific! Contest winner, selected by Joe Vallese (It Came from the Closet)

Nightmare Magazine, Aug. 2025. 13,407 words. Eligible in the Novelette category.

• Colden Hills Music Camp is already the last place on Earth thirteen-year-old Hannah wants to be—and that's before she learns there's more to be scared of than boys' cabin pranks and algae-infested lake swims. Something haunts this particular camp: something feral and dangerously alluring. 

• Reactor "Must-Read Short Speculative Fiction" pick

• Vanessa Fogg's short fiction recs

F(r)iction Magazine, Nov. 2025. 6,683 words. Eligible in the Short Story category. Contact me if a PDF is desired.

• Koschei the Deathless is one of the most ruthless, fearsome sorcerers around, and now he's met his match in Ira, a mortal woman hell-bent on bringing him down. Her plan involves a traditional lakeside wedding ceremony and as many loaves of bread as her local Euromart can carry. 

• F(r)iction Spring Writing Contest winner, selected by Wole Talabi (Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon)

Tell Me Yours, I'll Tell You Mine, Oct. 2025. 9,726 words. Eligible in the Novelette category. Contact me if a PDF is desired.​

• A former varsity volleyball player reopens the grisly wounds of her youth, haunted by a lost friend and the controversial methods of a once revered coach.

Tell Me Yours, I'll Tell You Mine, Oct. 2025. 11,264 words. Eligible in the Novelette category. Contact me if a PDF is desired.​

• It's bad enough when Zasha's first date takes her to one of Chicago's broiest bars, worse when it turns out to be trivia night. But when the questions unexpectedly turn on Zasha, what dark secrets will she have to answer for? 

Tell Me Yours, I'll Tell You Mine, Oct. 2025. 5,922 words. Eligible in the Short Story category. Contact me if a PDF is desired.​

• Jae travels across the Bay Area, a modern knight seeking her next joust. Except her armor is made of peer-reviewed research articles, and her opponents are doctors, in this allegory for medical gender bias in the American healthcare system. 

Lightspeed Magazine, Feb. 2025. 6,749 words. Eligible in the Short Story category.

• Clem works for a coffee-pod company while caring for her sick girlfriend in this story about polydactyly, climate change, the terrible weight of guilt, and the redemptive power of myth. 

• "...at times is reminiscent of Tom Robbins and other times of the glorious havoc that is Everything Everywhere All at Once." – review by Danai Christopoulou in Haven Speculative

• "What to Read: The Monster Edition" by Maria Haskins for Ruadán Books

Forthcoming in Nightmare Magazine, Dec. 2025. 3,019 words. Eligible in the Nonfiction and Related Work categories. Contact me if a PDF is desired sooner.

• An essay investigating our creepiest childhood rituals (from pain-tolerance games like "Bloody Knuckles" to death-divination games like "Concentrate, Concentrate"), their evolution in the era of memes and TikTok challenges, and the hold that childlore has over adult fiction today

Punctured Lines, Sept. 2025. 2,787 words. Eligible in the Nonfiction and Related Work categories.

• A photo essay weaving together the personal, cultural, and political in an exploration of the dangers of nostalgia, the pull of Soviet-era children's books, and a recent trip I took with three generations of family to the country of Georgia

• "Kamchatka" in The Best Weird Fiction of the Year (originally published in Washington Square Review)

• "How to Make a Snow Maiden" in We're Here: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction (originally published in Porter House Review)