Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam

  • “A Careful Fire” — Beneath Ceaseless Skies (October 2015)

    “A Careful Fire” — Beneath Ceaseless Skies (October 2015)

    My short story “A Careful Fire” appeared in Beneath Ceaseless Skies in October 2015. First line: Every night from her room in the master’s house, Mabella listens to the calls of the wingèd women as they soar through the smoky evening air. Inspiration: This may make people think less of my marriage, but I thought of…

  • Short Story Recommendations at io9

    I’ve recommended three of my favorite summer 2015 short stories over at io9, with additional recommendations by K. Tempest Bradford, Charles Payseur, and Terry Weyna. Head on over there to check out which stories I chose. (One of them will make you look at pumpkins in a whole new, unsettling light.) http://io9.com/what-are-the-best-stories-of-the-year-so-far-septembe-1733798080

  • Best Short Fiction of 2014

    Best Short Fiction of 2014

    Brand new magazine Mothership Zeta aims to publish fun stories, and they released their Issue 0 today, which includes my article on my favorite short fiction from 2014. Fairy tales, magic staircases, uncomfortable airplane conversations, and geometric shapes are all represented, and most you can read online for free. Check out my recommendations here.

  • A whole anthology about monsters…from Knopf Doubleday’s Everyman’s Library imprint!

    A whole anthology about monsters…from Knopf Doubleday’s Everyman’s Library imprint!

    Anyone who knows me knows I love Halloween, so I’m psyched that the monster poetry anthology Monster Verse: Poems Human and Inhuman is out now, just in time!, from Everyman’s Library. It includes my poem “The Werewolf.” The volume includes monster poetry from writers such as Neil Gaiman, Stephen King, Elizabeth Bishop, Edgar Allen Poe…

  • The Flesh! In which I pit my love for Goldblum against my dislike of gore and watch The Fly

    Clever writer Rachael Acks hosted me on her blog today. I watched The Fly and wrote some thoughts on it. I made it through, but barely. Read the post here.