speculative fiction author, lapslock aficionado, fanfiction connoisseur, and number one defender of comic sans. i write short stories with vibes for plot & SFF novels featuring everything but the kitchen sink.
Book(s?)
Illustration by Christian Chang
Design by Charlotte Strick
In Bookstores
03 . 03 . 2026
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Summary
A cursed warrior. A reckless healer. A chance to save the world—or destroy it.Like the rest of the winged eresh keyel, warrior Asaru has spent his life fighting a long-dead enemy. When his brother’s squadron disappears from a border keep, Asaru travels into the human realm to investigate, only to become ensnared by a fatal—and unbreakable—curse that could wipe out his people.When he inadvertently commits a terrible crime, Asaru is thrown into the path of Wren, a former healer-in-training playing with dangerous magic. Bound to one another by a spell gone wrong, and on the run from freelance killers, they set out to find the Chronicler, who could bring them answers, redemption, and the cure to Asaru’s curse. But the secrets they uncover about the past have the power to break the world into pieces, ending human civilization and settling its remnants into something entirely new.
Explicit gore, death, graphic violence (fight scenes, loss of limb, mutilation), descriptions of corpses, blood, bloodletting, nosebleeds, atypical depression, passive suicidal ideation, depictions of religion and religious practices, implied sexual content, sex work (mentioned), non-consensual kiss, non-consensual drug use, ethnic discrimination (implied), near drowning, indentured servitude (implied), body horror, emesis, alcohol consumption
Please assume everyone is queer unless otherwise stated or implied.
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Short Fiction
Forthcoming
"Teeth Sharper Than Moonlight." Blood, Sweat, & Queers anthology.
"Belletristic Lover." Baffling.
"Itsy Bitsy." Kaleidotrope.
"Family Will Eat You Alive." Consumed anthology.
"Divinity, Abloom." Tales and Feathers.
"Tapetum Lucidum." Augur.
"Allomorphosis." White Wall Review.
2025
"When The World Will End..." Saros Issue 3.
The technology that remains will be more flesh than metal.
[Set in the Sentient Metal storyworld]
"Like Embers." MYRIAD's Kinship zine.
The human and the automaton rode up on the Burning Kin in the deep night when there was no difference between shadow and sky.
[Set in the Sentient Metal storyworld]
2023
"When She Speaks." The Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction 2022. (reprint.)
2022
"Fractal Eyes." Out There: Into The Queer New Yonder anthology. YA.
Subject 0000-A, also known as Essence, is an entity of unknown origin resembling a human in physical appearance.
"TAKEOFF." midnight & indigo: Nineteen Speculative Stories by Black Women Writers Issue 6.
There stands a woman, sunny hair, umber skin, and eyes like the coffee swirling in my cup.
2021
"When She Speaks." Augur Issue 4.1.
Flowers bloom when her wife speaks.
Get in touch!
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um [at] nebulouswrites [dot] comFor publishing inquiries, contact Emily Forney at BookEnds Literary.
Author of BLACK AS DIAMOND, a queer fantasy debut releasing 3/3/26 from Bindery Books.