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Lisa M. Bradley
@cafenowhere.bsky.social
Queer, disabled Latina spec-fic poet/author/editor. Work in LeVar Burton Reads, Fantasy, Lightspeed, Uncanny, & F&SF. Poetry Editor for Strange Horizons. www.lisambradley.com
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For the new folks, links to my books:
Exile, a dystopian novel: bitl.to/3JmB
The Haunted Girl, a collection of short fiction and poetry: www.aqueductpress.com/books/978-1-...
Climbing Lightly Through Forests, A Poetry Anthology Honoring Ursula K. LeGuin, ed with R.B. Lemberg: bitl.to/3Jm7
Exile a book by Lisa M Bradley
Twenty years ago, a toxic spill in the small, southwest Texas town of Exile poisoned residents with permanent rage. The feds' response? Quarantine. Only residents who pass the feds' 4-S test can escap...
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It is extremely windy and bright, which means light is pulsing through the leaves and has given me a migraine. Right before the six-hour drive.
November 26, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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Most of us are engaged in the Mass Blackout, avoiding ordering things online to show billionaires our collective power. But you can still back the woman who mercilessly eats the rich: THE MATRON.

Let's make Black Friday RED!

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November 26, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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I'm offering up a signed ARC of Enchanting the Fae Queen in the Bid4Sudan auction!

Bid now to raise money for a vital cause AND get early enemies-to-lovers fae mischief: app.galabid.com/creatives4su...

#romancelandia
November 26, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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I had a book come out this year that you can vote for! The Island of Dreams is a dark YA fantasy inspired by Peter Pan that focuses on disability and ageism and our assumptions about whose dreams are eligible for paradise and a chosen path to the good place.
November 25, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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A new poem from me as part of The Vertigo Project, Greetings from Innerspace: with love and exasperation to the people of Earth: vertigoproject.co.uk/files/2025/1...
vertigoproject.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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THIS ⬇️
Have a cup of coffee. Read a book of poems. Your day will be better for it.
November 26, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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I’m so excited about pub day that I’m giving away a copy!! If you’re a fan of vampires, you might want to cuddle up with High Stake and Bloody Business this holiday season 🩸

Give this a repost if you’d like to be added! And for an extra entry, reply with your favorite creature feature monster!
November 25, 2025 at 2:34 PM
A deer came into our front lawn to sample the skinned pumpkin we left under the bird feeder. I wish I hadn’t scared it away.
November 24, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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Seattle is using stencils when neighbors go missing
November 22, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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For the Sunday crowd: my novel, Muñeca, out June 2026, is Gothic historical fiction about a queer, Latine, working class witch who sets out to rescue a bespelled heiress and loses control of her powers and her heart in the process.
You can pre-order it! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/788211...
Muñeca by Cynthia Gómez: 9798217047574 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
A vivid, surreal Gothic about a queer, Latine, working class witch who sets out to rescue a bespelled heiress and loses control of her powers and her heart in the process. It is 1968 Oakland, and Nat...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com
November 23, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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!!!!! I really recommend this one! I love the whole series, the character work especially is absolutely stellar.
The first volume of one of the best Hungarian SF series, Csodaidők (A Time to Heal) by Raana Raas (Suhajda Etelka) (translated by Székács Judit) is now available in English.

The Hungarian original was a fresh voice in the scene, a family saga inspired by abrahamic religions.
November 23, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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if you have a moody holiday ruiner in your crew, please offer them a to go plate for their uber ride to therapy
November 23, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Did I miss something? What happened to Norman Reedus? #HorrorWatch
November 23, 2025 at 3:51 AM
I’ve seen Pandorum before but it’s been so long, I probably won’t remember any of it. #HorrorWatch
November 23, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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Delighted to receive a Pushcart nomination for my poem 'Goblin Shark', published in @thebraag.bsky.social 🦈
November 22, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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We don’t need to reform ICE.
We don’t need alternatives to ICE.
We don’t need to engage in dishonest debates wondering what the U.S. would do without ICE.

ICE isn’t even 23 years old. Most adults know a world without ICE. And the billions used to fund ICE can be used to meet people’s basic needs.
November 18, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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I published some pieces I'm deeply proud of this year. My second novel, one of my most personal novelettes, one of my weirdest short stories, and an essay on an idea that's been nagging me for years.
November 21, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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I didn’t realized this had gone live but it seems that you can now read my flash, “What Happened That Night,” at Short Edition.
short-edition.com/en/story/sho...
What Happened That Night
Josh is gone, but I see him everywhere. Even now, it's his reflection I see in the puddle as the storm brings me back to reality. I shiver. Seems I'm always cold these days. I need to get my shit
short-edition.com
November 21, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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eligibility post time!!!!
this year i published two things:

novella: THE DEATH OF MOUNTAINS from @lethepress.bsky.social

short story: "The Messengers of Despair" from @bcsmagazine.bsky.social

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November 21, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Neighbor’s lawn service is using the loudest, most obnoxious leaf blower I’ve heard in a long time. Considering banging my head against the wall to distract from the noise assault.
November 21, 2025 at 4:06 PM
This morning I woke to a world of fog and a host of dark-eyed juncos visiting the critter feeders.
November 20, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Time Travel Is Easy is officially out in the world! Dinosaurs and Deep Time are thematic links to queer embodiment, childhood trauma, and life in the late Anthropocene. Cover art by the amazing Helen Whistberry. (Non-Amazon options coming very soon!) www.amazon.com/dp/B0G344X8L7
November 20, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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Being here for the duration & doing the dishes. Altar rails & touching up mullets. Disastrous atrophy & boba tea. Setting our fields ablaze.

beestung #25 is here!

www.beestungmag.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:01 PM
I’ve been pretty productive over the last couple of weeks but today a migraine has laid me low. Nothing is getting done today.
November 19, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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Please help @lpkindred.bsky.social stay in school in these difficult times. He's a great person who's had a rough go and deserves all the good things.

www.gofundme.com/f/keep-lp-in...
Donate to Keep LP in School Spring 2026, organized by LP Kindred
Hey y'all, I'm LP Kindred, a Chicagoan-Angeleno writer/editor/teaching artist/culture work… LP Kindred needs your support for Keep LP in School Spring 2026
www.gofundme.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:19 PM