This anthology is coming out from the University of Wisconsin Press in September. Check out the list of contributors!
Lucy Jane Bledsoe, Louise A. Blum, Rebecca Chekouras, Jane Churchon, Tzivia Gover, Kate Lynn Hibbard, Jourdan Imani Keith, Gillian Kendall, Sandra Gail Lambert, Pearlie McNeill, Lesléa Newman, Sheila Ortiz Taylor, Suzanne Parker, Sima Rabinowitz, Ruthann Robson, Lauren Sanders, Patty Smith, Lori Soderlind, and Hannah Tennant-Moore
Collective Fallout has published an excerpt of my short story "The Swamp Goddess" on their website. It appears in it's entirety in Volume One.
I arrive home after a 14 hour day of tucking my mother's whole life of belongings into one small room and leaving her for her first night in the new place, and in the mailbox there it is - a journal with my name in the table of contents. It was such good timing.
Collective Fallout, edited by Eric Crapo, is a twice yearly journal "dedicated to queer-themed sci-fi, fantasy, horror, and mystery fiction and poetry." It's available in print or as an e-download. Just click here to order.
Now, here's the place where I would talk about the other contributors. However, I came home that night, my arms full of old papers of my mother's, tired into stupidity, and after flipping through the journal, I fell asleep. I woke up, went right back to moving chores, and now, I can't find the journal. I've looked everywhere. It might be in that box with my dead father's Army Air Corps enlistment records from 1938 or maybe under the stacks of old checks from just decades ago.
Looking obsessed me for awhile, but I've given up and ordered a replacement copy. I can tell you my story has lesbians, the Everglades, a swamp goddess, a serial killer, and infidelity with a park ranger.
First Person Queer (with my essay "Theories about Bodies and Truth" in it) is shipping from the publisher today! Which means it will arrive in a warehouse in Tennessee by the end of the week and then, I think, gets sent to many fine bookstores by next week. Yippee!
And to celebrate, I will be reading and then signing copies at Wild Iris Books on Friday, November 16th, at 7:30pm here in Gainesville. Please come.
