Through a double handful of poems and one novelette, As the Tide Came Flowing In combs for love, persistence, what wrecks and what remains, what the sea keeps, and what it gives back. There are kelp-ribboned caverns here and the line of bright sky that meets the offing, black weddings and a scattering of pearls. Stark, intricate, deft and queer, Taaffe's is an invitation to the deep.

As the Tide Came Flowing In

Literature & Fiction

Taaffe, Sonya

Genre Fiction

Nekyia Press

"Here, We Cross" collects twenty-two queer and genderfluid poems from the digital pages of Stone Telling magazine. This chapbook is a celebration of speculative poetry that is diverse and varied; here you will find poems with speakers or protagonists who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, genderqueer, trans*, asexual, and neutrois; speakers who struggle with the body and the society’s imposed readings of that body. It is a painful book, a triumphant book, full of works that soar and breathe and live. Just like us.

Here, We Cross: a collection of queer and genderfluid poetry from Stone Telling 1-7

El-Mohtar, Amal

Takács, Bogi

Bradley, Lisa M.

Seidel, Alexandra

Lemberg, Rose

Sheng, Nancy

Agner, Mary Alexandra

Bannister, Michele

Dudda, Peer G.

Poetry

Stone Bird Press

Postcards from the Province of Hyphens

Postcards from the Province of Hyphens marks the debut of Sonya Taaffe's first full-length collection, with nearly fifty poems and prose pieces, including the Rhysling award-winning and -nominated poems, "Matlacihuatl's Gift," "Storm Gods of the Connecticut River Valley," "Green Fuses," "Harlequin, Lonely," and more.

Prime Books

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Fantasy

Singing Innocence and Experience

The Devil's School lies down this way. Lot's wife knows your name. Hearts hang in the scales, flesh and clay are one and the same, and the severed head of Orpheus sings in winter waves. In award-winning poet Sonya Taaffe's first collection of short fiction, the boundaries between worlds dissolve to reveal unmasked harlequins and women made of stars, serpentine plagues and New England storm gods, and many other denizens of the spaces between. These songs of innocence and experience, Blake never knew.

Short Stories & Anthologies

“Rich word choices and settings that blend speculative concepts with quotidian reality highlight this stellar anthology of prose and poetry.” —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY “One of those rare long-term survivors of the small-press landscape. . . contributes mightily to the health of our genre.” —LOCUS ONLINE Assembled from the second year of the digital journal MYTHIC DELIRIUM and recast in an artfully arranged anthology, this latest offering from editors Mike and Anita Allen will introduce you to harrowing deserts and vengeful waters, to quantum mythology and edible religion, to slipstream explorations of love and identity. Publisher and editor Mike Allen writers in his introduction, “If you’re on a quest for the weird, lowercase, here is a book where you can find it. And likely The Weird as well.” This international anthology of beautiful prose and strange verse features Saira Ali, Michele Bannister, Alicia Cole, Jeannine Hall Gailey, Gwynne Garfinkle, Brady Golden, Adam Howe, John Philip Johnson, Jamie Killen, Swapna Kishore, Margo Lanagan, Geoffrey A. Landis, Nathaniel Lee, Rose Lemberg, Livia Llewellyn, Valya Dudycz Lupescu, C.S. MacCath, Alex Dally MacFarlane, Lynette Mejía, Virginia M. Mohlere, Sunny Moraine, Kristine Ong Muslim, Dominik Parisien, Jessy Randall, Wendy Rathbone, Sonya Taaffe, Shveta Thakrar, Natalia Theodoridou, Sheree Renée Thomas and Jane Yolen. Cover art by Hugo Award winner Galen Dara.

Mythic Delirium: Volume Two: an international anthology of prose and verse

Lanagan, Margo

Llewellyn, Livia

MacFarlane, Alex Dally

Thomas, Sheree Renée

Gailey, Jeannine Hall

Thakrar, Shveta

Lupescu, Valya Dudycz

Howe, Adam

Muslim, Kristine Ong

Rathbone, Wendy

Moraine, Sunny

Landis, Geoffrey A.

YOLEN, JANE

MacCath, C.S.

Kishore, Swapna

Mohlere, Virginia M.

Parisien, Dominik

Johnson, John Philip

Lynette Mejia

United States

Mythic Delirium Books

In Forget the Sleepless Shores readers should expect to be captivated by many ghosts and spirits who inhabit brine, some from tears of heartache and loss, some from strange bodies of water, not necessarily found on the map but definitely discovered through charting a course though the perilous straits of author Taaffe's imagination, which is eerie and queer (by every definition of the word).

Forget the Sleepless Shores: Stories

Lethe Press

The final volume in the acclaimed Heiresses of Russ series features stories that are anything but invisible: the women in these tales are not hiding and are not easily overlooked but rather are choosing the harder path, the more dangerous route, whether that leads to love or loss or adventure. Included in these pages are stories that have won a World Fantasy Award, a Tiptree Award, and a British Fantasy Award...but every one of these stories chosen by guest editor A.M. Dellamonica (herself an award-winning writer of queer speculative fiction) is emblematic of the new vitality to be found in lesbian-themed tales of wonder, the eerie, and the miraculous.

Heiresses of Russ 2016: The Year's Best Lesbian Speculative Fiction

Sriduangkaew, Benjanun

Pinsker, Sarah

Kim, Alice Sola

Balder, Bo

Dellamonica, A.M.

Mudge, Faith

Arkenberg, Megan

A lantern hangs for the ghosts, both desolate and numinous. The white road and the black river run down into the dark and return again. In this collection of thirty-six poems and one story, Rhysling Award-winning poet Sonya Taaffe traces the complex paths between the dead, memory, and living. A two-part cycle written over the course of seven years, Ghost Signs leads the reader through the underworld of myth to the hauntings of the present, where the shades of Sappho, Alan Turing, and Ludwig Wittgenstein exist alongside Charon, Dido, and The War of the Worlds. “The Boatman's Cure” follows a haunted woman and a dead man as they embark on a road trip through coastal New England, an exorcism at its end. Sharply imagined, deeply personal, Taaffe's work in Ghost Signs is at once an act of remembrance and release. Reviews “Sonya Taaffe's collection Ghost Signs...[is] not to be missed. Taaffe is probably my favorite poet in the genre, and the book collects a great many of her recent poems, but also includes one wonderful long story, 'The Boatman's Cure.' The prose is particularly wonderful—full of striking metaphor, with a driving, nearly desperate rhythm, and the story is original and powerful, about a woman who can see and perhaps free ghosts. She seeks out an apparently quite ancient ghost, for obscure reasons that are slowly revealed to lie in her difficult past, especially her relationship with her dead sister—and of course her sister's ghost.” —Locus, Rich Horton “The poetry here has the brilliance of a knife's edge, sharp and cuttingly clean, saturated with meaning and freighted with significance. And fittingly, given the title, every poem is a ghost. Every poem a katabatic descent to the underworld, a shade glimpsed at the corner of the eye, the whisper of something lost as it teases the edge of memory. If there is one word to describe this collection, it is elegiac [...] By any standards, this is an incredibly successful poetry collection.” —Strange Horizons, Liz Bourke Ghost Signs is a masterpiece: In content, in curation, these poems and one story are that species of perfect that has me struggling with metaphor. I can hardly bear to speak of it: All I want is to sit you, dear reader, down in a comfortable place with a beverage to hand and make you listen to each one, pausing periodically to say “can you even believe this line” or “RIGHT?” as you exclaim, inevitably, over the feelings these words provoke. Amal El Mohtar, Lightspeed Magazine

Ghost Signs (Conversation Pieces)

Aqueduct Press

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