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Marisca Pichette (she/they) @marisca.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

DEFILER (@shackleboundbooks.bsky.social) is up for preorder! My blood-tree midwife folk horror, "Spines," is one of just five dark fantasy stories collected in this anthology. Check it out 🩸 www.amazon.com/dp/B0GX2QKPZ6

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Marisca Pichette (she/they) @marisca.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

A very happy 3 year book birthday to RIVERS IN YOUR SKIN, SIRENS IN YOUR HAIR! 🌊containing 50 poems 🌊 20 of those poems are original to the collection 🌊published 3 years ago today 🌊a finalist for 2 awards 🌊my first standalone book Available in print and digital @press-android.bsky.social 🫧

Photo of Rivers in Your Skin, Sirens in Your Hair on cross stitch botanical patten textile background. To the right of book are three slices of dried citrus. To the left of book is a citrine crystal and a bookmark with the cover art. Cover are depicts a right hand reaching up towards a crystal stylus on a dark background, circled by flower petals while a white betta fish and butterflies flutter just above. A digital banner at the top of the photo reads “Turning three!”

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Marisca Pichette (she/they) @marisca.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

New Patreon tier added: FEED THE BEAST 🐈‍⬛ www.patreon.com/15797433/join

Photo of Bombur loafing under the coffee table. He is viewed from the front and gazes slightly to the side, looking approximately like a pile of black floof with green eyes.

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Marisca Pichette (she/they) @marisca.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Another cover reveal for you, this time from @incisionpress.bsky.social: MONSTERF#CK, coming April 30 🦑 Including my anarchical poem, "american spirit" ⛓️ Preorder here: incisionpress.com/product/mons...

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Marisca Pichette (she/they) @marisca.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

As of yesterday, EVERY DARK CLOUD has been in the world for one whole year!!! Bringing you luminous mushrooms, numinous apocalypse, and ruinous relations lit by darkness🩶 Out everywhere from @ghostorchidpress.com

Photo of right hand holding up EVERY DARK CLOUD in front of a bookcase stacked with books and carved mushrooms and dried flowers. Cover art: figure standing in center of teal and black mushrooms with a yellow and white bank of clouds above, through which a minute silhouette is falling.

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Marisca Pichette (she/they) @marisca.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

"𝘚𝘩𝘯𝘤𝘩, 𝘴𝘩𝘯𝘤𝘩, 𝘴𝘩𝘯𝘤𝘩. That’s the song the dermestid makes, tidying up corpses on the banks of spring streams choked with last year’s leaves. 𝘚𝘩𝘯𝘤𝘩, 𝘴𝘩𝘯𝘤𝘩, 𝘴𝘩𝘯𝘤𝘩." Read @nightmare-magazine.com 161 for "Twelve Facts About the Dermestid Beetle" 🪳 www.nightmare-magazine.com/issues/feb-2...

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Marisca Pichette (she/they) @marisca.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Thrilled to find 2 of my beloved pieces on @datlow.bsky.social’s BH 17 recommendations! 🖤“Against cold stone” (poem, VASTARIEN) 🖤“White & Wolf” (flash, @dragonsroost.bsky.social anthology THE PLEASURE IN PAIN) ellendatlow.com/2026/01/03/f...

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Marisca Pichette (she/they) @marisca.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Behold my 2025 poetry round up!! I published 24 poems this year, eligible for the Nebula, Hugo, Rhysling, & Elgin Awards 💫 Huge thanks to @penumbricmag.bsky.social @sfpoetry.bsky.social @asimovssfmag.bsky.social @smallwondersmag.com @kaleidotrope.bsky.social @justkeepupmagazine.bsky.social ⬇️

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2025 Awards Eligibility:
Poetry by Marisca Pichette
Hugo & Nebula Awards
24 poems
Rhysling Award: Short Poems
18 poems
Rhysling Award: Long Poems
1 poem
Dwarf Stars Award
5 poems

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2025 Poems by Marisca Pichette
star-bright
SpecPoVerse #1
Lagomorpha
Penumbric Speculative Fiction Magazine, April 2025
When the Shadows Showed All
Kaleidotrope, Spring 2025
and holes in the roof to welcome rain
Star*Line 48.2
geomancy
Star*Line 48.2
All the space we have left
Asimov's, March/April 2025 Issue
alt/main
Dangerous to Go Alone 2
Last sanctuary
Small Wonders #19
Where does the flame go/when we blow the candle out?
Eye to the Telescope #55
Between the Waters of Phlegethon and Molloy
Kaleidotrope, Winter 2025
snapshots viewed through the stasis pod window
Just Keep Up
fritillary frigate
Radon Journal #11

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2025 Poems by Marisca Pichette
Umbrella Cloud
Star*Line 48.4
elegy to a meadow
This Exquisite Topology
The Fin Stitch
This Exquisite Topology
Auragami
This Exquisite Topology
What the Unicorn's Horn Feels
Our Dearest Devotions
threnody, adrift
F(r)iction #24: The Oceans Issue
triboluminescence: a first-hand account
F(r)iction #24: The Oceans Issue
two hundred miles from Long Beach
F(r)iction #24: The Oceans Issue
chaos theory
Merganser Magazine #6
Let the net grow far and deep
Penumbric Speculative Fiction Magazine, Oct 2025
Medusa Circuit
Eye to the Telescope #58: Cyberpunk
coral on mars
New Myths, Winter 2025 Issue

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Marisca Pichette (she/they) @marisca.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Awards Eligibility Post: I published a novella, 12 stories, & 5 flash in 2025! Huge thanks to all the publishers, editors, readers, & reviewers who spent their time with my writing this year. 🖤🎈🦇

Graphic displaying cover for EVERY DARK CLOUD, 2025 novella by Marisca Pichette from Ghost Orchid Press.

Graphic listing 2025 stories by Marisca Pichette published in the following magazines:
One More Song
Goblins and Galaxies #0
Upon a Vast, Velvet Veil
Fusion Fragment #25
In Her Tower of Scales
Worlds of Possibility, June 2025
The House of Us
DreamForge Magazine #16
Naked They Cling
Cosmic Horror Monthly #58
The Last Harvest
Phano #2

Graphic listing 2025 stories by Marisca Pichette published in the following anthologies:
Where Walls Once Rose
Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology
Soft Fire
BOREAL: An Anthology of Taiga Horror
The Watercolor Room
The Midnight Labyrinth
How Not to Swallow a Dragon
Behind the Revovling Door
Nature Morte
Hiding Under the Leaves
Appleseed
Spirit of the Wolf

Graphic listing the 2025 flash pieces published by Marisca Pichette:
Nine Acre Corner
Anomaly
Press Release from a Utopia
on the Way Down
Simultaneous Times #84
This is Not a Fiction
Full House Literary, Spring 2025
One, Two, We, Our
Tales & Feathers, Vol. 3
What the Boys Lost
MYRIAD Digital Zines: Nocturnal

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Marisca Pichette (she/they) @marisca.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Happy 6 month book birthday to EVERY DARK CLOUD!!! 🍄☁️🖤 Hard to believe this novella has been in the world for half a year. Thank you to everyone who’s read, reviewed, gifted, and listened to these words. Keep it up ⛅️ @ghostorchidpress.com

Photo of EVERY DARK CLOUD on a Victorian mortician’s table flanked by plants and bones.

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Marisca Pichette (she/they) @marisca.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

I read 2 excellent collections during @seattlein2025.org: WEDDING OF THE FOXES by Katherine Larson THE MAN IN THE BANANA TREES by @mlensheffer.bsky.social

Photo of two paperback books on orange ottoman: “Wedding of the Foxes” by Katherine Larson on the left and “The Man in the Banana Trees” by Marguerite Sheffer on the right.

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Marisca Pichette (she/they) @marisca.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Voting is now open for the Rhysling and Dwarf Stars Awards @sfpoetry.bsky.social! I’ve got three finalists this year ✨ @mosspuppymag.bsky.social

Graphic on cosmic blue and purple background with text “Rhysling Award Finalist: Short Poem / Make me a sandwich / Star*Line 47.2 / Voting Deadline: September 15”

Graphic on cosmic blue and purple background with text “Dwarf Stars Award Finalists / binary system / Star*Line 47.2 / death is a less terrible thing / Moss Puppy Mag #7 / Voting Deadline: September 1”

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Marisca Pichette (she/they) @marisca.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Have you checked out @sfwa.bsky.social's silent auction yet? You can nab one-of-a-kind earrings (made by me) and a signed copy of EVERY DARK CLOUD 🌙

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Marisca Pichette (she/they) @marisca.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

I can finally shout about this!!! I am thrilled, honored, & profoundly PUMPED to share that I am now represented by @laurenbajek.bsky.social at @lizadawsonassoc.bsky.social! Stay tuned for the magic, the mystery, & the manuscripts to come ☕️🔮🕯️

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Marisca Pichette (she/they) @marisca.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Happy 1 month birthday to EVERY DARK CLOUD! 🍄💚 @ghostorchidpress.com 🖤

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Marisca Pichette (she/they) @marisca.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

It’s my birthday today! The best gift you can give any author is to read their work so I guess this is a shameless self promo post 🌸

Photo of Rivers in Your Skin, Sirens in Your Hair and Every Dark Cloud on a brightly colored striped silk scarf.

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Marisca Pichette (she/they) @marisca.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Happy 2yr book birthday to RIVERS IN YOUR SKIN, SIRENS IN YOUR HAIR 🌼🐚🌼

Photo of poetry collection, Rivers in Your Skin, Sirens in Your Hair resting amount bright green grass and sunny field daisies.

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Marisca Pichette (she/they) @marisca.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

somewhat delayed: March 2025 sub stats! no poems this month, but 1 micro--and, more importantly--my debut novella was published!! EVERY DARK CLOUD is now available wherever books breathe 📖 books2read.com/u/4D5Xak

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Marisca Pichette (she/they) @marisca.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

🔥OUT NOW 🔥 A very happy book birthday to EVERY DARK CLOUD, an eco-horror novella about the beauty unearthed in the wake of disaster. Gorgeous cover by @carlydraws.bsky.social. Get it now from @ghostorchidpress.com & anywhere books are sold 🖤

Photo of EVERY DARK CLOUD standing on scarf with design featuring Van Gogh’s iris painting.

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Marisca Pichette (she/they) @marisca.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

EVERY DARK CLOUD is just 20 days away!! Why wait? Preorders are OPEN @ghostorchidpress.com 🔥 ghostorchidpress.square.site/product/ever...

Square graphic with cover art detail of figure falling through fiery clouds. Image of EVERY DARK CLOUD cover on top and centered, with arrows spiraling outward to various vibes: “queer af” “climate justice” “race against time” “bioluminescence” “dark sci-fi” “near-future”

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Marisca Pichette (she/they) @marisca.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

EVERY DARK CLOUD plummets through the atmosphere in exactly 1 month!!! Here are some excerpts to stoke the fires of anticipation 🔥 Preorder now from @ghostorchidpress.com ghostorchidpress.square.site/product/ever...

Square tile graphic with darkened background of bioluminescent mushrooms along the forest floor. In foreground is the following quote: "The Coalition dissolved eighty years ago. We owe our world to them. We owe our lives."

Square tile graphic with darkened background of bioluminescent mushrooms along the forest floor. In foreground is the following quote: "We look up, blinded by the present and the future. Only when we blink can we see a brief image of the past--a flicker of darkness hiding on the other side of sight."

Square tile graphic with darkened background of bioluminescent mushrooms along the forest floor. In foreground is the following quote: "My imagination, so wonderful for designing beautiful buildings, betrays me by painting an all-too-realistic picture of what's to come."

Square tile graphic with darkened background of bioluminescent mushrooms along the forest floor. In foreground is the following quote: "Stories can't fix this. Words won't put my life back to where it was twelve hours ago."

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Marisca Pichette (she/they) @marisca.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Looking for a silver lining? EVERY DARK CLOUD is here ☁️ Publishing March 25, 2025 🔥 ghostorchidpress.square.site/product/ever...

Photo of a stack of EVERY DARK CLOUD viewed from above, resting on a dark purple cut velvet background with a string of gold beads and dried flowers bordering the books. Cover art depicts a person standing silhouetted in blue-green light from bioluminescent mushrooms. Above, a minute figure falls through fiery clouds.

Photo of EVERY DARK CLOUD open to dedication page, which reads “To darkness and all it reveals.”

Photo of EVERY DARK CLOUD open to the first page. Opening lines “We all know the history. How grass used to be green, clouds were once white, nights broken by hours of day.”

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Marisca Pichette (she/they) @marisca.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

In 2024, I published 10 stories & 45 poems & I’m here to play favorites🔮 Stories: "Catalogue of the Exofaithful Practices on Exoplanet SSR24" in @thedeadlands.com "Three Circuits of the Monoceros Ring" in @clarkesworldmagazine.com "White & Wolf" in TPIP @dragonsroost.bsky.social Poems ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Graphic with black background and two columns titled "Favorite Stories of 2024" and "Favorite Poems of 2024." Stories in left column are as follows:
"Catalogue of the Exofaithful Practices on Exoplanet SSR24-∞
The Deadlands #36

Three Circuits of the Monoceros Ring
Clarkesworld #215

White & Wolf
The Pleasure in Pain"

Poems in right column are are follows:
"In a castle far from every prince
F&SF, Summer 2024

We’re all Mad here
Orion’s Belt, May 2024

Against cold stone
Vastarien Vol. 7.0"

Illustration of canid skull and oval mirror frame adorn the bottom of the image in beige.

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Marisca Pichette (she/they) @marisca.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

The new journal has been initiated with stickers; let the writing begin 🖊️ Stickers courtesy of @thedeadlands.com @apparitionlit.com @omgjulia.bsky.social @franwilde.bsky.social

Photo of leatherette journal being held in left hand over potted plants. Stickers on cover include stack of spellbooks, art nouveau posters, skeleton hand balancing songbird, headstone, and octopus demolishing city with plus size woman in foreground.

Photo of leatherette journal being held in left hand over potted plants. Stickers on back cover depict grim reaper, crystal cluster, astronaut fishing for planets, space cat riding bicycle, and shield emblem with “Truth, Justice, Reasonably Priced Love, and a Hard Boiled Egg” motto encircling an egg.

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Marisca Pichette (she/they) @marisca.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

My fave 2024 reads mix art history, space, short fic, & death. In no set order: MEETINGS WITH REMARKABLE MANUSCRIPTS by Christopher De Hamel TENDER by Sofia Samatar LOVELY CREATURES by @ktbryski.bsky.social WHEN THE EARTH HAD TWO MOONS by Erik Asphaug A LIFE WITH FOOTNOTES by Rob Wilkins

Graphic with black and white background of darkened multi-storey library. Five book covers are displayed, including:
MEETINGS WITH REMARKABLE MANUSCRIPTS by Christopher De Hamel
TENDER by Sofia Samatar
LOVELY CREATURES by KT Bryski
WHEN THE EARTH HAD TWO MOONS by Erik Asphaug
A LIFE WITH FOOTNOTES by Rob Wilkins

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Marisca Pichette (she/they) @marisca.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Awards season continues with poetry! I published ~50 poems this year, 47 of which are eligible for @sfpoetry.bsky.social's Rhysling & Dwarf Stars awards 🌟 All available links are on my website! mariscapichette.com/poetry

Graphic of murky mushroom macrophotography with following white text:
"2024 Poems by Marisca Pichette
Eligible for the Rhysling Award:
40 Short Poems
4 Long Poems
Eligible for the Dwarf Stars Award:
3 Poems"

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Graphic of murky mushroom macrophotography with following white text:
"Rhysling Award: Short Poems
“chrysalis of teeth” Star*Line 47.1
“sporing” Dreams & Nightmares #126
“Against cold stone” Vastarien Vol. 7.0
“women and” Vastarien Vol. 7.0
“Thumbelina” Vastarien Vol. 7.0
“For an eye” Vastarien Vol. 7.0
“Meditation on the contours of absence” Vastarien 7.0
“WRITE THIS DOWN” Audacious Women
“Once” Enchanted Living #66
“A seal is born with two skins, and keeps only one” Dissections, March 2024
“(Little) Red” Dissections, March 2024
“coyotes run faster than wolves” Dissections, March 2024
“Make me a sandwich” Star*Line 47.2
“Old Men Collect Old Things” Coffin Bell Vol. 7.2
“What stars are made of” Coffin Bell Vol. 7.2
“Looking-glass, half-full”Coffin Bell Vol. 7.2
“casket” Dusty Attic Vol. 3
“the dragons of old stone walls” Eye to the Telescope #52
“My dreams were white & treacherous” Vocivia #5
“Picturesque” Heroica
“When she gave birth to the universe” Madam President

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"Rhysling Award: Short Poems (cont.)
“rabbit hole (resurfaced)” Sage Cigarettes #19
“You must wear your rue with a difference”
Haven Spec #16
“Rhedynog” Star*Line 47.3
“Start to Finish” Bleeding Hearts Beat Still
“Bride to the Queen of Winter” Slay and Slay Again
“In a vial on the windowsill you’ll find it” Asimov’s Sept/Oct 2024
“Self-Titled” Ethel Zine Vol. 11
“Every robot has a switch she can’t reach” Radon Journal #8
“waning, waning” Strange Horizons 9/23/24
“firestarter” Kaleidotrope, Autumn 2024
“The Snowmelt Queen” Star*Line 47.4
“Stonemaiden” Star*Line 47.4
“Moving Without; a Thought” Moss Puppy Mag #7
“Her music was not meant for me” HWA Poetry Showcase #XI
“No Place” Eye to the Telescope #54
“The Snowmelt Queen” Star*Line 47.4
“Stonemaiden” Star*Line 47.4
“cassiopeia, in spring” Door is a Jar, Winter 2024
“Mirror, mirror” New Myths, Winter 2024"

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Rhysling Award: Long Poems
“happily ever” Good for Her
“We’re all Mad here” Orion’s Belt, May 2024
“In a castle far from every prince” F&SF, Summer 2024
“A Modern Mrs Monster” Nocturne Magazine #4
Dwarf Stars Award:
“spirits like snowflakes” Haunted Words Press #7
“binary system” Star*Line 47.2
“death is a less terrible thing” Moss Puppy Mag #7

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Marisca Pichette (she/they) @marisca.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Thinking about starting an author website, but not sure where to begin? I'll be giving a workshop online at @elegantliterature.bsky.social this Saturday! www.elegantliterature.com/authorhq/

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Marisca Pichette (she/they) @marisca.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Honored to see several of my 2023 stories and poems on this list, including pieces from @penumbricmag.bsky.social, @sfpoetry.bsky.social, @nightmare-magazine.com, the anthologies SHAKESPEARE UNLEASHED, THE OLD WAYS, and ASEPTIC & FAINTLY SADISTIC, and my collection 🖤

Screenshot from Ellen Datlow’s 2023 list of recommended horror, with highlight on pieces by Marisca Pichette:

Pichette, Marisca “All Hallowed Tides Break Upon This Shore,” Shakespeare Unleashed.
Pichette, Marisca “Crackle Ball,” (poem) Penumbric August.
Pichette, Marisca “Kalanchoe daigremontiana: a family tree,” (poem) Star*Line, 46.4 Fall.
Pichette, Marisca “The Flock,” Aseptic and Faintly Sadistic.
Pichette, Marisca “The Size of Your Fist,” (poem) Rivers in Your Skin, Sirens in Your Hair.
Pichette, Marisca “The Twelve Dying Princesses,” Nightmare December #135.
Pichette, Marissa “Spines,” The Old Ways, Volume Two.

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Marisca Pichette (she/they) @marisca.bsky.social · 29/08/2024

Extremely excited to share that I've signed with @ghostorchidpress.bsky.social to publish my debut novella, EVERY DARK CLOUD ☁️

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Marisca Pichette (she/they) @marisca.bsky.social · 24/07/2024

@sfpoetry.bsky.social members! Voting is OPEN for this year's Elgin & Rhysling Awards 🪐 My collection is a finalist for the Elgin & I have 3 poems in the Rhysling Anthology. Voting instructions & links to read the finalists have landed in your email inbox! 🥀DEADLINE SEPT 15🥀

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"Elgin Award Finalist" on lefthand side, over cover image of RIVERS IN YOUR SKIN, SIRENS IN YOUR HAIR by Marisca Pichette. Text beneath reads "Full-Length Book: Rivers in Your Skin, Sirens in Your Hair."
"Rhysling Award Finalists" on righthand side, over three magazine covers from The Dread Machine, Haven Speculative, and Fantasy Magazine. Accompanying text reads "Short Poems: The Goth Girls' Gun Gang // A Prayer for the Surviving" and "Long Poem: As the witch buns"

Bottom text: "Voting Deadline: September 15"

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Marisca Pichette (she/they) @marisca.bsky.social · 25/06/2024

Captured in the wild: LOVELY CREATURES by @ktbryski.bsky.social 🐋 Can't wait to dive in🖤@psychopomp.bsky.social

Photo of LOVELY CREATURES by KT Bryski resting on a mossy concrete block overgrown by clover and grass. Book is flanked by two animal skulls on the right and a rib bone on the left. Cover art: art nouveau style framed image in teal, orange, and black; humpback whale swimming over river with swan, teapot, and apple scattered along the outside. Title and author centered over the art.

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Marisca Pichette (she/they) @marisca.bsky.social · 07/06/2024

A glowing skunk skull to guide you into the weekend

Photo of cleaned skunk skull resting on a mirrored dish with an ornate brass frame. Sunlight from a window above sets the bone aglow with warm yellow light. Skull viewed from front.

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Marisca Pichette (she/they) @marisca.bsky.social · 01/05/2024

Stumbled across 2 recent issues of F&SF and Door is a Jar, both containing my poems!

Photo of Marisca holding up two periodicals: the Nov/Dec issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, and the Spring 2024 issue of Door is a Jar. She is wearing a white knit cardigan with embroidered strawberries and smiling at the camera. Cover art of F&SF features a bronze airship covered in portholes, beams of light cutting through a blue deep. Cover art of Door is a Jar features a painting of a grey parrot perched on a branch with a lime green background.

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Marisca Pichette (she/they) @marisca.bsky.social · 24/04/2024

My contributor copy of THE PLEASURE IN PAIN has arrived, including my fragmentary sapphic Snow-White-&-the-Wolf-trauma-bond story ❣️ This stellar TOC edited by @thebookslayer.bsky.social also features @avramargariti.bsky.social @caitlinmarceau.bsky.social @sofiaajram.bsky.social & more 🗡️🩸🖤

Photo of 'The Pleasure in Pain' standing against a maroon fabric background. Cover art is black and dark blue with elegant pink script for the title. The book is standing opposite a framed black and white photo of a woman with her back to the camera, reaching up both hands, which are handcuffed. A small ornate mirror dish rests in front, with a black acrylic coffin charm with a floral motif. Resting in front of the book is a sheep jawbone.

Photo of 'The Pleasure in Pain' open to the page containing "White & Wolf" by Marisca Pichette. The text is broken into right and left alignment, each short section beginning with either "White." or "Wolf." on its own line. The sheep jawbone rests on the page, and the framed monochrome photo is just visible in the top of the photo.

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Marisca Pichette (she/they) @marisca.bsky.social · 12/04/2024

Delighted and honored to announce that RIVERS has been nominated for the Elgin Award @sfpoetry.bsky.social!! Full list of nominees available here: sfpoetry.com/el/elgcand.h...

Graphic displaying large text on left and image of book cover on right, with background of peach-colored clouds. Text reads "Elgin Award Nominee, Full-Length Book." Book on right is "Rivers in Your Skin, Sirens in Your Hair" by Marisca Pichette. Cover art depicts right hand reaching up towards a crystal stylus flanked by butterflies and botanicals. A pale beta fish swims above, suspended in dark ether.

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Marisca Pichette (she/they) @marisca.bsky.social · 04/04/2024

RIVERS is one year old today!! I'm so proud of this little book. To everyone who's read & reviewed it over the past year: thank you!! What better way to celebrate National Poetry Month than with witches, sirens, & countless other beasties nestled in these pages? 🐉 @solarpunklitmag.bsky.social

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Marisca Pichette (she/they) @marisca.bsky.social · 01/04/2024

I've got to say that Android Press is KILLING IT on the ballots this year 🚀 @wtalabi.bsky.social @solarpunklitmag.bsky.social @jdiannedotson.bsky.social www.android-press.com

Screenshot from the Android Press homepage showing four book covers with "Order Now!" buttons under each. From left to right:
Bram Stoker Award Nominee: Superior Achievement in Poetry - "Rivers in Your Skin, Sirens in Your Hair" by Marisca Pichette
2023 BSFA Award Finalist: Best Collection - "The Sauútiverse Anthology" edited by Wole Talabi
2023 BSFA and Nebula Award Finalist: Best YA Fiction - "The Inn at the
Amethyst Lantern" by J Dianne Dotson
Nebula Award Finalist: Game Writing - "Ninefox Gambit RPG" by Yoon Ha Lee

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Marisca Pichette (she/they) @marisca.bsky.social · 21/03/2024

Happy #WorldPoetryDay! I barely took any pictures at #ICFA45 (as usual) but I did capture a stack of my collection in the book room 📚

Photo of a stack of Rivers in Your Skin, Sirens in Your Hair on a vendor table at ICFA 45

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