Welcome!
I’m a writer of novels, short stories, essays, and poems. You can read more about me on my Press page. The Novels, Stories, Essays, and Poems pages list my publications, including some that are available to read online. The Purchase page tells you where you can buy my books. The Free page links to writing of mine that is available online for free. This page is about what’s happening now. Look below to see what I have coming out, where I will be appearing this year, and where you can find more information about me. This page also tells you how to contact me.
My Blog is updated periodically, so if you would like to know what I’m working on or thinking about, you can always check there. You can also find older blog posts listed under Posts. I hope you enjoy browsing!
Publications
My new short story collection, Letters from an Imaginary Country, just came out from Tachyon Publications! It’s available from Tachyon, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Bookshop.org. Of course, you can also always order from your favorite independent bookstore! Here is the gorgeous cover, with art by the magical Catrin Welz-Stein:
And here is a description of the collection:
Roam through the captivating stories of World Fantasy, Locus, and Mythopoeic Award winner Theodora Goss (the Athena Club trilogy). This themed collection of imaginary places, with three new stories, recalls Susanna Clarke’s alternate Europe and the surreal metafictions of Jorge Luis Borges. Deeply influenced by the author’s Hungarian childhood during the regime of the Soviet Union, each of these stories engages with storytelling and identity, including her own.
The infamous girl monsters of nineteenth-century fiction gather in London and form their own club. In the imaginary country of Thüle, characters from folklore band together to fight a dictator. An intrepid girl reporter finds the hidden land of Oz — and joins its invasion of our world. The author writes the autobiography of her alternative life and a science fiction love letter to Budapest. The White Witch conquers England with snow and silence.
You can read a new short story from the collection here: “Dora/Dóra: An Autobiography”
I was very happy to do two interviews about this collection:
With Armed with a Book
With Foreword Reviews
And here are some reviews, in case you want to read about it:
By Matthew Galloway for Library Journal (starred review)
By Michelle Anne Schingler for Foreword Reviews (starred review)
By Kriti Khare for Armed with a Book
By Lory Widmer Hess for Shiny New Books
By Cory Doctorow
I also wrote two articles related to this book:
For John Scalzi’s The Big Idea
For Fantasy Café (titled “Writing as Witchcraft“)
Appearances
Here are my upcoming appearances for 2026:
February 13-15, 2026: I will be at Boskone in Boston, Massachusetts.
March 18-21, 2026: I will be at the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts in Orlando, Florida.
I’m hoping to be at a conference on fantasy literature in Glasgow in June, and will write about that when I know for sure. As for the rest of the year, we’ll see!
Contact
If you would like to contact me directly, you can email me at tgoss@bu.edu. If you would like to send me something, you can send it to the following address:
Dr. Theodora Goss
College of General Studies
Boston University
871 Commonwealth Ave
Boston, MA 02215
Permissions
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