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In this episode of the Strange Horizons podcast, editor Anaea Lay presents Natalia Theodoridou's “The Names of Women.”



Natalia Theodoridou is a writer of dark, queer stories. He won the 2018 World Fantasy Award for Short Fiction, and a Nebula Award for Game Writing in 2025. His debut novel, Sour Cherry, a Bluebeard retelling about toxic masculinity and cycles of abuse, is out now (Tin House/Wildfire) and his next novel, Anna Dreams of a Dead Revolutionary, is coming in 2028. Find his website at www.natalia-theodoridou.com and Sour Cherry at https://zandoprojects.com/books/sour-cherry-paperback.
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