Author Archives: Theodora Goss

Today, I was going through my files, trying to figure out what I have in them. In general, my writing files are very organized. But in both my story and poetry files, I have a folder called something like “current” … Continue reading →

Sometimes it’s difficult, living in my head. Today I got an idea for a story (yes, another idea – I get story ideas all the time). It comes from two true stories, both of which affected me significantly when I … Continue reading →

Tonight, I’m organizing the poetry notebooks. There are three of them: Childhood-1995, 1996-2005, and 2006-Present. They’re woefully disorganized. The first one is filled with handwritten scraps of paper, some of them torn out of spiral notebooks. There are some typed … Continue reading →

Perhaps I’m getting more selfish, but I decided some time ago that on holidays, I wasn’t going to do anything I didn’t want to. That means no long trips to see relatives. No elaborate decorating, because I don’t really see … Continue reading →

This is a post about writing news. I thought you might like to know that my story “Pug,” which was originally published in Asimov’s, is going to be in Rich Horton’s Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy anthology for 2012. … Continue reading →

Last night was the longest night of the year. Today I’ve been sitting at my desk and working, working, working. Which is actually not all that good for me. I need to get out into the world, or at least … Continue reading →

The new issue of Stone Telling has a very interesting article called “The Poetry of Joanna Russ, Part I: An Introduction,” by Brit Mandelo. It’s on the poetry that Joanna Russ wrote when she was young, just in college actually. … Continue reading →