Today’s the day — Horror and Indigeneity: Literature, Film, and Television is now available, and it looks amazing! Not only does the cover feature an image from one of my favorite horror films (Blood Quantum, which you can watch for free here if you want), but editors Murray Leeder and Gary D. Rhodes have assembled a thought-provoking array of essays for readers to peruse. I’m honored to have my essay “Toward an Indigenous Monster Theory: Un/settling Creatures and Decolonizing Horror” included. I’ve always loved the subfield called Monster Studies and am excited to get to contribute to it by geeking out about monster theory in relation to books by Stephen Graham Jones, Andrea L. Rogers, and Daniel H. Wilson.

Well, I wrote another horror story. This one’s a hungry ghost story called “Hungry Ghosting” and is set in Columbus, OH. Even though I attended the Ohio State University to earn my PhD just like the woman who became a hungry ghost in this story, this one’s not based on that period of my life. It was a weirdly nice experience to take a creative mental walk down memory lane with this one, and this one was a LOT of fun to write. I’m really proud to be able to have published a short story in the company of all the other amazing writers who’ve published with NIGHTMARE. I hope you like reading this one as much as I liked writing it!

I have an essay coming out in a critical collection, and I’m SO EXCITED about it! Hell-Bent for Leather: Sex and Sexuality in the Weird Western is a companion collection to the critically acclaimed collection Weird Westerns: Race, Gender, Genre. And it’s got an exciting cover, y’all! It’s officially slated for release on January 1, 2025. If you want to pre-order, the press is offering 40% off — info on this flyer:

The online speculative fiction magazine Strange Horizons published my short story “Feeder Fish” today! It’s a work of dark speculative fiction (or maybe horror-lite?) set in Morro Bay. Even though it has absolutely nothing to do with dragon boating, the inspiration really came from my experiences dragon boating with the Central Coast SurviveOars in beautiful Morro Bay in California. It’s my own weird kind of love letter to those waters, which may sound strange given that it’s technically a work of horror fiction…but still. Horror + nature writing + ghost story = “Feeder Fish”? (You can read just my short story, or the entire issue on the Strange Horizons website.)

I’ve never published a creative work before…but now my essay “What Are You?” is out in this gorgeous collection of essays by Asian American women. It’s a weird experience to put something so personal out there, but it was really fun to write and I’m super excited that it’s finally in print! The stunning cover is an added bonus — hats off to NYU Press’s design team for that one. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it.