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Devin Miller

@devzmiller.bsky.social
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Writer of sapphic SFF fiction and poetry, cyborg, Seattleite, plant nerd. devzmiller.com

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Devin Miller @devzmiller.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Oh yeah I have so many of those tiny perfume oil samples I don't know what to do with, this does sound fun!
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Haven Spec Magazine @havenspec.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
👀Poetry Highlight👀 ICYMI, the poem "Dawn Witching with Crows" by @devzmiller.bsky.social is free to read! Join the birds and cast your spells in this sapphic poem about witchy crows from our March issue! Poem: buff.ly/sJ8pVxr Issue: buff.ly/A4NJnnk
An excerpt of the poem "Dawn Witching with Crows" by Devin Miller, slated for Haven Spec Magazine, Issue 19, March 2025. The text reads:

Softly lift the tools of your secret witching.
Make no noise your mothers will hear, no telltale
scrape of knife on stone; keep your setup silent.
Answer no questions. 


The background is the issue's cover art, titled Daydreamer, by Abi Stevens Art.
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Devin Miller @devzmiller.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
New story day! Have a little bite of weird circus fiction to enliven your Monday.
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Devin Miller @devzmiller.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Y'all look Macey has a book!! I'm so excited for everyone to get to read it!! I have already read it and it is a DELIGHT! It's got many bones. More than the average book's share of bones. Bones and shenanigans. 😁🦴
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Devin Miller @devzmiller.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Congratulations #VP2025! VP was exactly what I was hoping it would be and more, I bet it'll be the same for you. And may you have weather as nice as we did last year.
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Devin Miller @devzmiller.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
💚💚
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Devin Miller @devzmiller.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Thank you, glad you enjoyed! 💚
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Devin Miller @devzmiller.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Hi friends, I have a poem out in Haven Spec! Did you know there is a poetry form called a sapphic? (I got very excited about writing sapphic sapphics when I learned this.) This poem is a sapphic about witchy crows (also pretty sapphic subject matter tbh). www.havenspec.com/dawn-witchin...
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Dawn Witching with Crows by Devin Miller, Haven Spec Magazine
Fiction for the 21st Century!
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Macey Levington @macey.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
oh gosh what is time - hugo noms close tomorrow!!! if you have space on your ballot for this year's special Poetry Hugo, please consider 'pockets full of stones' for nomination? this little poem means a lot to me, & I'm very proud of it ☺️ 🐋🖤💀🚀 www.uncannymagazine.com/article/pock...
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pockets full of stones - Uncanny Magazine
you ask me, lips pressed to vertebrae, about the ocean: does it weep for all those lost at sea; does it remember all it’s taken?                             the tides have torn a hole in you, I think,...
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Devin Miller @devzmiller.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Happy Sunday would you like a super goth birth poem because I made one for you and it's out now in Baubles From Bones! www.baublesfrombones.com/trick-of-the...
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the trick of the necromancer's womb by Devin Miller
Life and death, embraced in the unknown lakeside, love what comes from it regardless Featured in Baubles From Bones: Issue 4
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Haven Spec Magazine @havenspec.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Our Kickstarter campaign ends Friday, so here's a teaser for some of the amazing content we'll have in 2025! "Dawn Witching with Crows" is a poem by @devzmiller.bsky.social that you can read in our March issue! Subscribe through our Kickstarter to get it! www.kickstarter.com/projects/hav...
An excerpt of the poem "Dawn Witching with Crows" by Devin Miller, slated for Haven Spec Magazine, Issue 19, March 2025. The text reads:

Softly lift the tools of your secret witching.
Make no noise your mothers will hear, no telltale
scrape of knife on stone; keep your setup silent.
Answer no questions. 


The background is the issue's cover art, titled Daydreamer, by Abi Stevens Art.
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Devin Miller @devzmiller.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Yessss excellent
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Baubles From Bones @bfbzine.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
✨Poetry spotlight!✨ Life and death, embraced in the unknown lakeside, love what comes from it regardless You can read "the trick of the necromancer's womb" by @devzmiller.bsky.social coming soon in Baubles From Bones Issue 4! #poetry #sff #smallpress #indiepublishing
on a blurred background lies a text box with an image of a hand rising from thick water under a starry sky. there is a quote, it reads: "what slid from my body into lake-water / and was drowned by wonder? / the trick of the necromancer's womb / is to grow things both  living and dead" this quote comes from "the trick of the necromancer's womb" by Deving Miller, appearing in Issue 4 of Baubles From Bones.
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Devin Miller @devzmiller.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
feeling very seen by "sexy sapphic mushroom witch love poem" tbh. my brand in a nutshell
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Devin Miller @devzmiller.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
One of the poems is mine! 🐦‍⬛🧙 Haven Spec does cool stuff, y'all should have a look at their Kickstarter.
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Devin Miller @devzmiller.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Dialogue. I was real good at making my fanfic dialogue sound like something you'd really hear in that TV character's voice and now I'm just generally good at making my characters talk like people.
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Devin Miller @devzmiller.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Happy Monday, friends! I'm starting a newsletter! Subscribe if you wanna hear about it when I publish something and occasionally get a lil essay about me debugging my writing process. www.devzmiller.com/newsletter
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Newsletter — Devin Miller
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Devin Miller @devzmiller.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
that's been there for years; I cannot explain it to you 😂 not usually wearing antlers though
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Devin Miller @devzmiller.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Woken up thirty seconds before the alarm clock by the cat tongue on face alarm. At least she was only thirty seconds impatient.
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Devin Miller @devzmiller.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Your night would probably be improved by looking at my cat be a princess, wouldn't it
A grey cat is curled up on a giant pile of pillows and a duvet on top of a chair. She is staring at the camera. The whole thing has Princess and the Pea vibes.
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Devin Miller @devzmiller.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
I'd be delighted if you read any of these, to nominate them for awards or not. It's such a joy when my strange ideas and stubbornly hopeful characters get to build a connection between me and the world.
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Devin Miller @devzmiller.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
"Song for a Star-Whale’s Ghost" is about singing space shanties to your whale ship and heisting for the good of her grandchildren. And about the cost of lowering your expectations. www.diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-1...
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DP FICTION #117A: “Song for a Star-Whale’s Ghost” by Devin Miller – Diabolical Plots
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Devin Miller @devzmiller.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
"Lessons From My Road Trip With a Sea-wife" does what it says on the tin: a story of what it does to your car to pick up a hitchhiking sea-wife and drive her to California. And what it does to you. www.juliarios.com/introducing-...
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Introducing the June 2024 Issue of Worlds of Possibility
This issue contains seven stories, three poems, three original illustrations, and two reprint illustrations.
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Devin Miller @devzmiller.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
"The Eleventh Resurrection and the Twelfth Life" is a story of death adventurers, resurrectionists, and looking for what you need in the right place to get it. And necrobiomes! www.heartlines-spec.com/the-eleventh...
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The Eleventh Resurrection and the Twelfth Life
The Eleventh Resurrection and the Twelfth Life by Devin Miller
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Devin Miller @devzmiller.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
I made an awards eligibility graphic to procrastinate on writing. 😅 All short fiction, eligible for the usual. I'm most proud of the complexity of "The Coffee of Torcat." Parallel worlds, memory, loyalty to a dangerous queen. www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/the-... More links in thread!
Awards eligibility graphic on a background of fern leaves.

Text reads:

Devin Miller 
2024 Awards Eligibility

“The Coffee of Torcat” (2,000 words) - Beneath Ceaseless Skies #404

“The Eleventh Resurrection and the Twelfth Life” (3,200 words) - Heartlines Spec #4

“Lessons From My Road Trip With a Sea-wife” (1,300 words) - Worlds of Possibility June 2024

“Song for a Star-Whale’s Ghost” (1,700 words) - Diabolical Plots #117
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Devin Miller @devzmiller.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
😂 certainly not. I've never been to the Isabela Stewart Gardiner Museum but I know enough about it to know I'll appreciate any room inspired by it
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Devin Miller @devzmiller.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
A+ interior decorating choice
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Devin Miller @devzmiller.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Ooh, goth of you, delightful
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Devin Miller @devzmiller.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Princess Oolong and the Pea for you
Oolong, a grey cat, sits on a mountain made of a duvet and pillows piled on top of a chair, looking suspicious of the photographer
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Devin Miller @devzmiller.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Okay but now you have to show us your gallery wall of haunted-looking women
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Devin Miller @devzmiller.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
😂 I'm pretty cool, it's true
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M.R. Robinson @mruthrobinson.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
40. I am such a fan of @devzmiller.bsky.social, and "The Eleventh Resurrection and the Twelfth Life" is a perfect example of why: it opens with a VERY cool concept (resurrections! tattoos!) but is really a story about people, about connection, about love. www.heartlines-spec.com/the-eleventh...
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Devin Miller @devzmiller.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Thank youuu I am glad you like it
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Beneath Ceaseless Skies Magazine @bcsmagazine.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
#BCSof2024 "The Coffee of Torcat" @devzmiller.bsky.social BCS #404 "Osa's hope was that the memory contained some piece of information. If it did, she would offer that memory to the Queen...she loved the way Queen Madella smiled when given information" www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/the-...
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Beneath Ceaseless Skies - The Coffee of Torcat by Devin Miller
Osa's hope was that the memory contained some piece of information about the country and its dukes. If it did, she would offer that memory to the Queen. She had liked Holal, but if Holal had stolen th...
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Devin Miller @devzmiller.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Nice to know it's not just me; those "must finish the draft without editing" thoughts are really strong
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Devin Miller @devzmiller.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Oh no the terrible feeling that I have to rewrite the first half before I can write the second half has been creeping up on me and it may have just clobbered me over the head
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Devin Miller @devzmiller.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Absolute mood
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Devin Miller @devzmiller.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
I think I also made an executive decision that if being past its expiration date did not make a pantry item likely to explode, it could go in a box. 🤔 You did not try to foist sencha on me. I have no idea if I like it? I'll try it.
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Devin Miller @devzmiller.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
I packed your decade+ old boxes of tea into moving boxes for you
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Devin Miller @devzmiller.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
My pastry is very flaky and the leek and kale filling is minimally leeky so I declare galette victory
A leek and kale galette, looking rather "rustic," sitting on a sheet of messy parchment paper
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Devin Miller @devzmiller.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Have made two kinds of pastry this evening so I feel I'm doing Thanksgiving Eve correctly.
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Devin Miller @devzmiller.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Nice! That sounds better than mine. Though at the time I probably would have refused a girls-only version; I was very resistant to anything girls-only as a kid/teen for reasons that in retrospect were very genderqueer.
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Devin Miller @devzmiller.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
9. I had never eaten a hamburger until I was 21. I have also never been a vegetarian.
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Devin Miller @devzmiller.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Dang, I ALSO went to an alternative school that gave us Wednesdays off, and I wanted to do technical theatre.
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Devin Miller @devzmiller.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
8. I am very good at 10-key (ie typing on a number pad) because of the four years I spent typing a lot of ISBNs for an e-commerce used books job.
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Devin Miller @devzmiller.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
It's funny how much of what I think of as personal lore is from childhood or high school. I keep trying to figure out what the most recent "lore" I can think of is. 🤔
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Devin Miller @devzmiller.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
7. When I was in high school the teacher who organized the drama program got fired for embezzling from the school and my two friends and I took over and hired the director, rented the theatre, raised funds, etc.
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Devin Miller @devzmiller.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
6. My old family cat was a tabby named Georgie we got when I was 12. He liked to sit in the front yard and intimidate large dogs (he did not trifle with small dogs). Regular dog walkers would cross the street to avoid him because their dogs were scared of him.
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Devin Miller @devzmiller.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
5. I've taken classes in Spanish, French, Italian, Russian, Welsh, and German. German is the only one I continue to be any good at.
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Devin Miller @devzmiller.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
4. When I was eleven or twelve I did a summer day camp making computer games. I was the only girl-shaped person in the class.
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