Size / / /

Berit Ellingsen is the author of three linked novels with a climate change theme, named The Empty City, Not Dark Yet, and Now We Can See The Moon. She has also written two collections of dark fairy tales, called Beneath The Liquid Skin and Vessel & Solsvart. Her short work has appeared in W.W. Norton’s Flash Fiction International, SmokeLong Quarterly, Litro, and other places, and been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, and the British Science Fiction Award. Berit resides in Norway and is a member of the Norwegian Author’s Union. Some of her short fiction can be accessed here.


Current Issue
13 Apr 2026

...fury tongued, we lash the breeze with our foxing song
From my broken streets and crumbling towers; Sterilized my self-haunted hospitals
Every single time, the Skiin™ gave me a rash. I scratched. I scratched so deeply that I clawed through the aug and into my own skin and then I tore out chunks of that too.
Issue 6 Apr 2026
Issue 30 Mar 2026
Issue 23 Mar 2026
Issue 16 Mar 2026
Issue 9 Mar 2026
By: Lio Abendan
Podcast read by: Jenna Hanchey
Strange Horizons
2 Mar 2026
Strange Horizons invites non-fiction submissions for our March 30 special issue on “Fungi in SFF.”
Issue 2 Mar 2026
Strange Horizons
Issue 23 Feb 2026
Issue 16 Feb 2026
Issue 9 Feb 2026
Load More