Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam

  • Artist & Magazine Spotlight: Galen Dara + Lightspeed

    My family is an artistic family; my mom is a painter who owns an art gallery in Texas, and throughout my childhood, the events I always looked forward to most were gallery nights and art shows. Now I run my own annual art show, the Art &Words Show, which features the work of twelve visual…

  • Nebula Nominations: Part Two

    Last week, in honor of the upcoming Nebula Awards weekend on May 16 – 19th, I reviewed four of the nominated short stories for this year. Now, I review the remaining three: “Immersion” by Aliette de Bodard Clarkesworld 69 Free read: http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/debodard_06_12/ Told in alternating second and third person, “Immersion” tells the intertwined stories of…

  • Nebula Nominations: Part One

    The Nebula Awards are coming up – Awards weekend will take place May 16 – 19th – and though the voting ended March 30th, I thought I’d go ahead offer and offer reviews of the nominated short stories for this year in anticipation of the winning announcement (and to give myself even more of an…

  • Top 6 Mythology Retellings

    Today, my second professional short story publication is up on Strange Horizons: “The Siren,” available for free to read or listen to. “The Siren” is about a young woman struggling to cope with the loss of her father and forced to confront that loss, as well as her budding sexuality, when her mother brings home…

  • Collection Review: Karen Russell’s Vampires in the Lemon Grove

    In Karen Russell’s second short story collection, Vampires in the Lemon Grove, it’s evident that Russell’s fiction has grown and evolved with her career. Many of the stories in her first collection, St. Lucy’s School for Girls Raised By Wolves, while imaginative, concerned adolescence and coming of age. The protagonists were younger, and the stories…