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BrightFlame is a Priestex of Words
I write to create a just, regenerating world. More finegrained, I write to help people find their connection to the Earth, to feel its sacredness. I write to spur imagination and creative problem-solving for our future. I write to explore ways we humans affect the world and to empower people to act.
Fiction
In my speculative novel, The Working, modern day Witches must thwart the force ripping apart our planet’s life-sustaining web and find the key to the bright future we need. I’ve signed with Water Dragon Publishing to bring the coven’s story to you (expected Summer 2024). Yeah!
A contemporary light fantasy with thrilling elements, the book contains real spiritual practice and a path towards the bright future we seek. Thus, it is lunarpunk more than fantasy. I liken it to N.K. Jemisin’s The City We Became intersecting a contemporary version of Alix E. Harrow’s The Once and Future Witches.
I’m excited for you to read my short climate fiction:
- “Thank Geo” in Solarpunk Creatures (World Weaver Press, 2024) edited by Sarena Ulibarri et al.;
- “When the Web Went Down” alongside stories by Starhawk, Sarena Ulibarri, Neil Gaiman, and others in Bioluminescent: a lunarpunk anthology (January 2023)—see the glowing Publishers Weekly review;
- “Myco Macro” in Issue 5 of Optopia;
- “Maybe We Are All Witches” in Issue 6 (November 2022) of Solarpunk Magazine; and forthcoming:
- “Ancestors, Descendants” in a to-be-announced solarpunk anthology.
Plus, I have a growing number of CliFi stories on submission. I plan to collect my solarpunk stories into a volume or novella.
I also have a sequel in mind for The Working.
I’m a member of SFWA, the professional organization for Sci Fi and Fantasy writers. Thank you to Brooklyn Speculative Fiction Writers (BSFW), Mid-May writers, and the NYC nano critique groups for your support.
Nonfiction
Following praise for my article published by the Center for Sustainable Futures at Columbia University, “On Being the Earth,” I added “Towards Solarpunk Futures” and “Writing for the Future.” My essay “Weaving Magic in the Mundane” is included in Honoring the Wild (February 2023).