Darja Malcolm-Clarke
Excerpt
“Put them down, Adan.”
“I’m still sanctioned to collect them. Dakar--Bishop Dakar--never revoked my license.”
“After what you did,” she says from the doorway, “I wouldn’t be surprised if Cardinal Aquiro himself revoked it.” The sunlight is bright behind her, hiding her expression in shadow. But the tone of her voice is enough. She was not one of the few who approved of how I helped the poor after the Hadez assassinated the Prince. I ignore that she skipped my title just as I ignore her instructions and turn back to the euchoi in the dish. Collecting them has always been my right.
from "A Song, a Prayer, an Empty Space," GUD #3
Bio
I'm a doctoral student at Indiana University studying speculative literature, feminist critical theory, and cultural studies; I teach undergraduates during the school year. I attended the Clarion West Writers Workshop in 2004. In addition to my fiction publications, I have nonfiction in the Journal for the Fantastic in the Arts, the anthology The New Weird, and Strange Horizons. In my not-so-copious free time, I study American Tribal Style bellydance. Bloomington, IN, is my home with my brewmeister partner, my trickstery fourteen-month-old daughter, and a monkey-sloth-cat thing.
Publications
"A Song, a Prayer, an Empty Space," GUD Magazine, Issue 3, Autumn 2008
"Shade's Globe (Umberia medianus)," A Field Guide of Surreal Botany, Two Cranes Press, 2008
"His One True Bride," Fantasy Magazine, June 16, 2008
"Pearl in Shadow," Ideomancer, June 2008
"The Beacon," Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 11, August 2007 (Nominated for the 2007 British Science Fiction Association Award; Honorable Mention in Year's Best Science Fiction; Million Writers Award Notable Story of 2007)
"Charon of Birds" (poem), Mythic Delirium 15, November 2006
"On a Martian Riverbank, Before the Freeze" (poem), Dreams and Nightmares 75, November 2006
"The Sending," Cabinet des Fées, Issue 3, May 2006
"The Sibyl of Tamarish," TEL: Stories, edited by Jay Lake, 2005
Writing Description
My fiction tends towards the weird. I write generally dark, secondary-world fantasy and science fiction with a social criticism bent, though I've dipped my toes in magical realism in a few stories lately.
Goals
I had a hell of a year last year, losing my son after a harrowing pregnancy. I plan to use this year's Write-a-thon to get back into writing fiction regularly again. My goal is to write for 45 minutes, 5 days a week--modest on the surface, but doable is the important thing after this past year. I'm looking forward to finding my groove again!
And I will bake my uncannily delicious white chocolate cherry almond cookies for anyone who pledges $15 or more.
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