Welcome!
I’m a writer of novels, short stories, essays, and poems. You can read more about me on my Press page. The Novels, Stories, Essays, and Poems pages list my publications, including some that are available to read online. The Purchase page tells you where you can buy my books. The Free page links to writing of mine that is available online for free. This page is about what’s happening now. Look below to see what I have coming out, where I will be appearing this year, and where you can find more information about me. This page also tells you how to contact me.
My Blog is updated periodically, so if you would like to know what I’m working on or thinking about, you can always check there. You can also find older blog posts listed under Posts. I hope you enjoy browsing!
Publications
A collection of my fantastical short stories and poems, called The Collected Enchantments, came out this year from Mythic Delirium Books. It’s available now, in bookstores and online. Here is some of what you will find in the book, from the publisher’s description:
A wicked stepsister frets over all the ways in which she failed to receive her mother’s love. A lost woman travels through an enchanted forest looking for someone who can remind her of her name. A girl must wear down seven pairs of shoes to gain help from a witch. A fox makes a life with a human, but neither can deny their true natures. A young woman returns to her childhood home and the fantastic stories she left there. A man lets himself be taken prisoner by the Snow Queen to prove that the woman who loves him would walk barefoot through the ice to save him. Medusa cuts her hair for love.
A book I edited, Medusa’s Daughters: Magic and Monstrosity from Women Writers of the Fin-de-Siècle, came out from Lanternfish Press in 2020. It contains gothic, fantastical, and macabre poetry and short stories by women writers from the turn of the century, including Kate Chopin, Mary Coleridge, Vernon Lee, Willa Cather, E. Nesbit, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Edith Wharton, Charlotte Mew, and Virginia Wolfe.
The third book in The Extraordinary Adventures of the Athena Club, The Sinister Mystery of the Mesmerizing Girl, came out in 2019. It takes our heroines back to London, where they must rescue Alice, Mary’s kitchen maid. Why would anyone kidnap Alice? You will find out in the concluding adventures of the Athena Club.
My short story and poetry collection Snow White Learns Witchcraft: Stories and Poems came out from Mythic Delirium Books in 2019. All the short stories and poems in this collection are based on fairy tales, in one form or another, although my versions may be quite different from the ones you’re used to! The collection has an introduction by Jane Yolen and gorgeous cover art by Ruth Sanderson.
Appearances
I wrote that 2022 was a little crazy for me. Well, 2023 will be as well. Here are my appearances so far:
Boskone, Boston, Massachusetts, February 17-19, 2023
Contact
If you would like to contact me directly, you can email me at tgoss@bu.edu. If you would like to send me something, you can send it to the following address:
Dr. Theodora Goss
Boston University CAS Writing Program
100 Bay State Road, 3rd Floor
Boston, MA 02215
Permissions
All of the writing and images on this site that were produced by me are my intellectual property. You may repost them as long as you do not change them, you attribute them to me, and you link back to this site in your post.
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