UNTHINKABLE | Contributors
BOO and welcome from the editor and contributors of Unthinkable: A Queer Gothic Anthology. Find out more about us below…
The Editor
Celine Frohn
Celine Frohn is a publisher, editor, and PhD researcher with a passion for Gothic and LGBTQ+ literature. The Unspeakable and Unthinkable anthologies combine both her academic work on the nineteenth-century Gothic, as well as her love for contemporary speculative fiction. Celine runs Nyx Publishing, which has published queer SFF including S.T. Gibson’s A Dowry of Blood and Holly J. Underhill’s The Bone Way.
The Designer
Ashely Hankins
Ashley Hankins is a fantasy and sci-fi illustrator. A native of Western New York, she spent several years in Humboldt County, California, where she became enamored with the mountains and mist-shrouded forests. She felt she had truly found someplace magical. Upon returning to New York, Ashley strives to inject her work with that same ethereal feeling she felt in those woods. Ashley is a primarily digital artist who loves palettes that feed into both a gothic aesthetic and bright color pops, lots of mood, and experimenting with strong, graphic shapes. When Ashley is not working on her latest project, she can be found writing, hiking with her partner, and drinking excessive amounts of tea.
The Contributors
K. Blair
Story: ‘Fun at Parties’
K. Blair (she/they) is a member of London Queer Writers. They have been published in Spoken Word London’s Anti-Hate Anthology, The Valley Press Anthology of Prose Poetry, the Dear Damsels website, Opia magazine, From the Farther Trees, HAD, Wretched Creations magazine, Stone of Madness Press, Not Deer Magazine, Queerlings Magazine, Daily Drunk Mag, The Bad Betty Press Book of Bad Betties Anthology, the Final Girl Bulletin Board, Rejection Letters, en*gendered lit and Fruit Journal. Find her in the vending machine at your local train station or most likely on online.
Jillian Bost
Story: ‘Clutching Air’
Jillian Bost loves horror, reading, and tea. In addition to her upcoming story in Unthinkable, she has had short horror works published by Cemetery Gates Media, Lycan Valley Press Publications, and Things in the Well Publications. She is an Affiliate Member of the Horror Writers Association.
G.T. Korbin
Story: ‘In Ruins’
G.T. Korbin is an author from Greece, currently living abroad to pursue a career in STEM. Primarily a fantasy author, her writing often focuses on reimagining old myths and tales of her culture, with a love for drama that makes her think those tales might have been better left alone. When she's not writing, you can listen for the sound of Greek swearing to find her playing videogames or attempting to bake, both with similar success. You can follow her on twitter at @g_korbin, or read her short stories in anthologies from TL;DR Press and others.
Adriana C. Grigore
Story: ‘It Passed by Morning’
Adriana C. Grigore is a writer from the windswept plains of Romania. They have a degree in literature and linguistics, a penchant for folklore, and a tendency to overwater houseplants. You can find their fiction in Clarkesworld, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, and others.
Dee Holloway
Story: ‘Vestal’
Dee Holloway is a librarian, writer, and Floridian in upstate New York. Selections of her short work have appeared most recently in Unfettered Hexes from Neon Hemlock, Clockwork, Curses, and Coal from Worldweaver Press, and among the Cup & Dagger mini-chapbook series from Sword and Kettle Press. When not writing, she's often sampling cold brew or hanging on the rail at the nearest racetrack.
Stewart Horn
Story: ‘The Dead Space’
Stewart Horn is a professional musician and amateur writer, poet and photographer. Originally from Glasgow, he now lives with his husband and assorted pets in the quaint seaside town of Troon. His short fiction and poetry have been published in books, magazines, journals and websites in Europe, North America and Australia, including Crowded, Lovecraft Ezine, The Horrorzine, Feast of Frights, Estronomicon, Interzone, the British Fantasy Society Journal, Excessica, Davanti Alla Specchio, Thirty Years of Rain and Flotation Device. His work has appeared in podcasts Pseudopod and Tales to Terrify.
Kallyn Hunter
Story: ‘Reynardine’
Kallyn Hunter is a queer writer, researcher and Renaissance Faire performer from the foothills of Colorado. She has a number of short stories published in various anthologies and is working on a full-length fantasy horror novel. When she's not creating worlds behind a computer screen, she can be found exploring our own with her partner, her mustang, and her adventure-seeking Pomeranian.
Gillian Joseph
Story: ‘Reflections’
Gillian Joseph (they/them) is a queer, 2-Spirit Ihaŋktoŋwaŋ and Mdewakaŋtoŋ Dakota storyteller who grew up as a guest on Waxhaw and Catawba lands. They are a folio editor at Anomaly, and enjoy spending time near mní + trying to figure out what their dreams mean.
Solstice Lamarre
Story: ‘Sea Salt and Strawberries’
Solstice Lamarre is a French, non-binary aroace writer. They write queer, neurodivergent stories in various genres, but always come back to themes of monstrosity, found family, and all sorts of queer love. When they’re not writing, they work as an English teacher for French teens or volunteer at their local LGBTI+ centre and activist group. In between writing, work, and activism, they read an unholy number of books, play videogames they never finish, and cuddle with their cat.
Hunter Liguore
Story: ‘Raion Kuīn’
Hunter Liguore is a writer, professor, and historian, often found roaming old ruins, hillsides, and cemeteries. Her work can be found in Bellevue Literary Review, Irish Pages, Porridge Magazine, and more. Whole World Inside Nan's Soup is available from Yeehoo Press.
Sydney Meeker
Story: ‘The Wellkeepers’
Sydney Meeker (he/him) is a Portland, Oregon-based writer of video games, short stories, and poetry. His work has appeared in Zoetic Press, Entropy Mag, Prismatica Mag, and others. He has been nominated for several awards for both video game writing and traditional prose and poetry, including the Herman Melville Award for Best Writing and Best of the Net awards. When he's not writing, he can be found playing video games, getting lost in the woods, or sometimes doing both at the same time.
Antonija Mežnarić
Story: ‘All Sweet Souls’
Antonija Mežnarić is a Croatian writer and editor, living and breathing speculative fiction. She loves to write queer horror and urban fantasy inspired by folklore. Alongside her partner, she runs a small Croatian publishing house Shtriga, she’s the co-editor at online magazine for speculative fiction Morina kutija and a co-host of the Croatian podcast about writing and publishing, Mora FM. Her notable works include the sapphic horror comedy novella What Do Nightmares Dream of and a queer folk horror collection Mistress of Geese.
Elisabeth R. Moore
Story: ‘Ghost at Haunting’s End’
Elisabeth R Moore is a grad student, writer, and lesbian. She and her wife live Essen, Germany, where Moore is working on her Masters Thesis on Climate Fiction. She writes strange stories about plants, birds and queer women. When she’s not writing, she crochets, reads, and hikes.
Valentin Narziss
Story: ‘Bodies of Water’
Valentin Narziss is a writer and painter, living in Berlin and Florence. His work merges the modern, archaic and queer, and usually has a dark twist to it. When not creating, he enjoys dressing androgynously and petting every cat he meets.
Tabitha O’Connell
Story: ‘Blood Play’
Tabitha O’Connell is a historic preservationist and writer of queer fiction living in Western New York. Eir favorite things include animals, abandoned places, alliteration, long walks, and long sentences. Particularly passionate about stories featuring trans and ace-spectrum characters, ey has published several queer fantasy novellas, and eir short fiction has appeared in the anthologies Queers Who Don’t Quit and Prismatic Dreams.
Arden Powell
Story: ‘Bess and the Thrasher Bird’
Arden Powell is a speculative-fiction author and illustrator from the Canadian East Coast. They graduated from St. Francis Xavier University in 2013 with a Bachelor of Arts degree, Honouring in English Literature. As a hybrid author they self-publish as well as publish with indie presses, and have had work accepted by literary magazines including Baffling Magazine and Lightspeed. A nebulous entity, they live with a small terrier and an exorbitant number of houseplants, and have conversations with both. They write across a range of fantasy sub-genres and everything they write is queer.
Kimberley Rei
Story: ‘Q.E.D.’
Kimberly Rei does her best work in the places that can’t exist... the in-between places where imagination defies reality. With a penchant for dark corners and hooks that leave readers looking over their shoulder, she is always on the lookout for new ideas, new projects, and new ways to make words dance. Kimberly lives in gorgeous Florida where the beaches defy reality and the sun is a special kind of horror. Her debut novelette, Chrysalis, is available on Amazon.
M. Špoljar
Story: ‘An Epitaph, Epistolary’
M. Špoljar writes prose and poetry, and in her free time works in audiovisual translation. His work has appeared in places such as Novel Noctule, warning lines, and perhappened.