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Lisa Bao

Lisa Bao is Chinese-Canadian with a mostly American upbringing. She officially studies linguistics and computer science, and unofficially fiction and poetry, at Swarthmore College.


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13 Apr 2026
Poetry
laurels 
By: Crystal Sidell
...fury tongued, we lash the breeze with our foxing song
Poetry
Dead City Dreaming 
By: Joshua Ginsberg
From my broken streets and crumbling towers; Sterilized my self-haunted hospitals
Fiction
Skiinfolk 
By: Jamie McGhee
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.
Reviews
Monday: The Faith of Beasts by James S. A. Corey 
By: Bill Capossere
Wednesday: Book of Potions by Lauren K. Watel 
By: Danielle Hanson
Friday: Climate Imagination: Dispatches from Hopeful Futures edited by Joey Eschrich and Ed Finn 
By: Seamus Sullivan
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Issue 6 Apr 2026
Poetry
Many of you have been asking what happens when an angel dies 
By: Seoung Kim
Poetry
Code Blue 
By: Victoria Ojo
Fiction
The Houses of the Stars in Heaven 
By: Ferdison Cayetano
Critical Friends, Podcasts
Critical Friends Episode 22: Romancing The Genre 
By: Jenny Hamilton
By: Anushree Nande
By: Dan Hartland
Reviews
Monday: Dispelling Fantasies: Authors of Color Reimagine a Genre by Joy Sanchez-Taylor 
By: Nick Hubble
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Wednesday: When They Burned the Butterfly by Wen-Yi Lee 
By: Kyle R. Garton
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Friday: The Potency of Ungovernable Impulses by Malka Older 
By: Safia H. Senhaji
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Issue 30 Mar 2026
Azimuth, Editorials
Introduction: Fungal Dreams 
By: Gautam Bhatia
Fiction
Nights and Weekends in the Shoggoth Loop 
By: Yri Hansen
Art, Poetry
Mushroon 
By: Mary Soon Lee
Art by: Romie Stott
Poetry
The Cryptogamists 
By: Sonya Taaffe
Poetry
Chronicling the Orbits of Mushrooms 
By: Caleb Peiffer
Articles, Non-Fiction
From Cosmic Horror to Solarpunk Futures: The Changing Face of Fungal Speculation 
By: Ruthanna Emrys
Columns, Non-Fiction
Climbing the Fungal Ladder: Towards Transcending Barriers 
By: Ayida Shonibar
Articles, Non-Fiction
How to Grow a City: Biogenic Architecture and Symbiotic Evolution 
By: Maya Horton
Columns, Non-Fiction
Utopian Eukaryotes: Revisiting the jahSepp from Star Trek: Discovery 
By: Jordan Hirsch
Columns, Non-Fiction
Fungus, Climate Change, and You: Facts and Speculative Fiction 
By: Jason P. Burnham
Columns, Non-Fiction
An STD could save your (chest)nuts 
By: Helen Pennington
Reviews
Monday: Shuten Order 
By: Tristan Beiter
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Wednesday: Make-Believe and Artifice by Rose Biggin 
By: William Shaw
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Friday: The Wondrous Life and Loves of Nella Carter by Brionni Nwosu 
By: Nileena Sunil
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Issue 23 Mar 2026
Poetry
Pennsylvania Cryptid 
By: Amelia England
Articles, Non-Fiction
That Soft and Gentle Feeling: Relationships In Cosy SFF 
By: S.L. Dove Cooper
Poetry
The O’Neill Cylinder in Geostationary Orbit Above Earth’s Equator 
By: Katlina Sommerberg
Reviews
Monday: Beings by Ilana Masad 
By: David Lewis
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Wednesday: The Iron Garden Sutra by A. D. Sui 
By: Alex Kingsley
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Friday: Monsters in the Archive by Caroline Bicks 
By: Eric Primm
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Issue 16 Mar 2026
Fiction
Five Medicines You Found in the Garden of Unfinished Poems 
By: Jenna Hanchey
Poetry
Narcissus Meets the Ghost of AI in a Dark Alley Behind a Fusion Restaurant 
By: Lesley Hart Gunn
Poetry
[minutes between city and forest #4] 
By: Ceridwen Hall
Columns, Non-Fiction
Spec Fic and the Politics of Identity: The Call of Sauúti 
By: Eugen Bacon
Reviews
Monday: Crisis at Proxima by Travis S. Taylor and Les Johnson 
By: Andy Sawyer
,
Wednesday: Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix 
By: Amritesh Mukherjee
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Friday: When Among Crows and To Clutch a Razor by Veronica Roth 
By: Electra Pritchett
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Issue 9 Mar 2026
Poetry
An Inheritance of Air; or, You Are Cordially Invited to Attend My Presentation on Genealogy 
By: Sophia Zhao
Podcasts
Podcast: I Wish You Died Laughing 
By: Lio Abendan
Podcast read by: Jenna Hanchey
Poetry
The Menu Under Glass 
By: Gabrielle Munslow
Fiction
This Obituary Has Been Retracted 
By: P.C. Verrone
Reviews
Monday: ECO24: The Year’s Best Speculative Ecofiction edited by Marissa van Uden 
By: Octavia Cade
,
Wednesday: This Brutal Moon by Bethany Jacobs 
By: Roseanna Pendlebury
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Friday: The Tricky Business of Faerie Bargains by Reena McCarty 
By: Anushree Nande
Read Issue
Azimuth, Azimuth Highlights
Call for Non-Fiction Submissions: Special Issue on Fungi in SFF
Strange Horizons
2 Mar 2026
Strange Horizons invites non-fiction submissions for our March 30 special issue on “Fungi in SFF.”
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Issue 2 Mar 2026
Azimuth, Azimuth Highlights
Call for Non-Fiction Submissions: Special Issue on Fungi in SFF 
Strange Horizons
Fiction
Bitter as the Sea 
By: M.E. Bronstein
Poetry
Afterstory 
By: Janet McAdams
Poetry
You Will Disembowel the Bird (Viator) 
By: Dacey Eliot
Critical Friends, Podcasts
Critical Friends Episode 21: On Style 
By: Dan Hartland
By: Paul Kincaid
By: Dawn Macdonald
Reviews
Monday: The Inescapable March by Hana Carolina 
By: Nick Hubble
,
Wednesday: Into the Midnight Wood by Alexandra McCollum 
By: Jenny Hamilton
,
Friday: The Valley of Vengeful Ghosts by Kim Fu 
By: Tina S. Zhu
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Issue 23 Feb 2026
Poetry
bones and bones and bones and 
By: IM Shulman
Poetry
Secondary Filters 
By: Ursula Whitcher
Articles
Rewilding Human Purpose in Becky Chambers's A Psalm for the Wild-Built 
By: Elizabeth Bush-Peel
Columns, Non-Fiction
Stories From The Radio 
By: Kuzhali Manickavel
Columns, Non-Fiction
Why All Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Are Historians 
By: Ada Palmer
Reviews
Monday: The Essential Patricia A. McKillip by Patricia A. McKillip 
By: Roy Salzman-Cohen
,
Wednesday: New Meat in a Clean Room edited by Ira Rat 
By: Subham Rai
,
Friday: The House of Illusionists and Other Stories by Vanessa Fogg 
By: Stephen Case
Read Issue
Issue 16 Feb 2026
Fiction
The River Speaks My Name 
By: Ocoxōchitl la Coyota
Poetry
They Leave 
By: Garth Upshaw
Poetry
The Secret to Being a Dragon 
By: Carolina Marchioro
Reviews
Monday: Into the Sun by C.F. Ramuz, translated by Olivia Baes and Emma Ramadan 
By: Dawn Macdonald
,
Wednesday: Lies Weeping by Glen Cook 
By: Roz Kaveney
,
Friday: Slow Gods by Claire North 
By: Ian J. Simpson
Read Issue
Issue 9 Feb 2026
Fiction
A Night with Hui ‘Enehana ‘Ike 
By: Maʻemaʻeolehua Matsumoto
Poetry
Why You Don't Buy Your Wife a Dishwasher for Her Birthday 
By: Larina Warnock
Poetry
The Point 
By: Darius Jones
Reviews
Monday: Cathedral of the Drowned by Nathan Ballingrud 
By: Matt Holder
,
Wednesday: Arctic Knot by Ivan Leonov 
By: Tristan Beiter
,
Friday: Manga's First Century: How Creators and Fans Made Japanese Comics, 1905–1989 by Andrea Horbinski 
By: Rachel Cordasco
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