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About

River May Riley is a speculative writer based in the cobbles and marshlands of the Berkshire Mountains, the northern range of the Appalachians.

Their scholarly background in environmental history, neuroculture, queer theory, ecology, international politics, and climate science informs their craft.

For River’s Masters degree in English Literature, they wrote a road trip long poem and accompanying thesis about trans teen homelessness, madness, family, and meeting our gods, based on a fragmented gap in Aeschylus’ Oresteia.

When not writing stories to find the hope in the mess of it all, River studies plants and stars, practices drawing, and wanders the woods with their spouse and rescue pitbull.

You can get ahold of River at rivermayriley at gmail dot com

  • Novel – Untitled – SF / dystopia / folk horror – as above so below – underground planetary religion – forests and simulations – upstate NY – transhumans becoming more human
  • Screenplay (series) – Hot Water – YA fantasy / magic realism – teen witches – rare birds – New England small college – real magic – environmental issues – student newspaper club
  • Short story – When the Waters Come – slipstream / SF – aliens in the water – ecological collapse – time travel – interdimensional warfare – Foucault lived – downtown Toronto – poets hold our history

  • Short story: GOOD SHIP EMPRESS RELOCATES AGAIN – cyberpunk – queer family – survivors of the empathy wars (5k words)
  • Flash: The End of Night – dark fantasy – Baba Yaga in love (800 words)
  • Flash: A Gift of the Luminaries Upon their Departure – weird / folk horror – a priestess must decide between staying on her assigned path or following the flame in her heart