BIO
Tania Chen is a Chinese-Mexican writer and poet of living nightmares with a soft spot for pink stationary.
Their work was selected for the Brave New Weird Anthology by Tenebrous Press, and has appeared in Apparition Lit, Strange Horizons, Pleiades Magazine, Baffling Magazine, Longleaf Review, The Dread Machine among others.
They are a graduate of the Clarion West Novella Bootcamp Workshop of 2021, a recipient of the HWA’s Dark Poetry Scholarship 2022, and a graduate of the Clarion West Writers Workshop 2023.
They have read submissions for Strange Horizons, Nightmare Magazine, and currently, are assistant editor for Uncanny Magazine.
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Fiction & Poetry
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2023
“A Toast to Santisima Muerte” in Strange Horizons
“Of Flesh, Of Bone” in Strange Horizons
“To a Dear Immortal in a Foreign Land” in Special Xianxia/Wuxia Issue from Strange Horizons
“King Arthur Wakes in 2023” in Haven Spec
“Speak of the Hunger” in Aseptic and Faintly Sadistic from Cosmic Horror Monthly
“A Testimony to the Dead Sea” in Space and Time (Spring/Summer #143)
“Along the Inked Tree During the Seasons” in The Dread Machine
“Restos de Rosca de Reyes” in Deathcap & Hemlock
2022
“The Abandoned Hydrolic Maintenance of the Archipelago” in Bending Genres
“Regarding the Companionship and Constitution of the Celestial” in Moonrise Myriad Zine
“Astronomy 101: Introduction To Ethical Star Cartography” in Fast Flesh Literary
“The Disarticulation of a Fern” in Longleaf Review
“Heart-Eater” in Apparition Lit. Included in some reading recommendations by M.A.Blanchard sf/f story of the day, Maria Haskins’ Monthly Short Fiction, Alex Brown’s Must-Read Speculative Short Fiction for July 2022, thank you for all the love this story has gotten!
“En el Patio de la Casa del Callejón” in Baffling Magazine. Included in the BRAVE NEW WEIRD anthology by Tenebrous Press
High-Noon Reclamation & Untitled Two Ate Untitled One in Pleiades’s latinx lgbtqia+ poetry special folio edited by Ruben Quesada
“HALF-QUARTER-LIFE CRISIS” in Strange Horizons
2021
“FORECLOSURE” in Unfettered Hexes: Queer Tales of Insatiable Darkness from Neon Hemlock Press. With a wonderful review in Lightspeed from Arley Sorg.
NON-FICTION
- ESSAY: “Symmetry, Horror & Identity” in Apparition Lit Issue 22: SYMMETRY
- NEON HEMLOCK REVIEW: Stories of the Eye
- NEON HEMLOCK REVIEW: Your Body Is Not Your Body
- NEON HEMLOCK REVIEW: The Book of Queer Saints
INTERVIEWS & READINGS
- HWA: Poets of the Dark (2023)
- Aseptic and Faintly Sadistic: Reading Party (2023)
- 30 Poets in 30 Days: Reading “Half-Quarter-Life Crisis” (2023)
write, write, write 