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I have acquired a literary agent! I'm going to be working with Lauren Bajek, of Liza Dawson Associates, who represents both science writing and science fiction.

I'm tremendously excited and a little bit boggled--I'd been keeping an eye on this agency because I'm acquainted with Hannah Bowman's husband in my mathematician guise, and Lauren's literary taste sounded a lot like mine, but I didn't expect anything to happen this fast.

If any of you are looking for a last-minute thing to do in NYC, I'm reading at the KGB bar tonight!

2024 was an exciting year for fiction!

short story collection

North Continent Ribbon was released by Neon Hemlock Press.

novelette

The final story in North Continent Ribbon, "A Fisher of Stars," is an original novelette. (If you're reading for awards nominations and would like a review copy, let me know!)

short story

Frivolous Comma published Flannelfeet, a Wisconsin covid-era portal fantasy.

poetry

My poem "Hexavalent" was in Analog in January 2024, and "Beyond the Standard Model" is in Analog in January 2025.

essays about writing

• The Poet’s Toolbox: Three Strategies for a Vivid Prose Voice (SFWA blog)
  
• A Depth of Taste (writing about food in space opera), for Frivolous Comma
  
• My Favorite Bit of North Continent Ribbon.
  

essays about math

Elliptic curves come to date night talks about a fun result combining economics, number theory, and algebraic geometry.

North Continent Ribbon is on Esquire's list of best sci-fi of 2024!

It's a really interesting list overall--is there anything you're particularly curious about?

North Continent Ribbon comes out on August 20!

I'm doing a Zoom release event at 7 PM Eastern time on August 22 with Argo Bookshop in Montreal and a bunch of writer friends. We're going to knit/embroider/craft and talk about the connections between prose and other ways of making things.