Lucien R.Starchild

Lucien R. Starchild writes at the intersection of the sacred and the profane, the mythological and the mundane, the horrifying and the hilarious. His work spans speculative poetry, flash fiction, short stories, and hybrid forms that resist easy categorization — which is, as far as he’s concerned, the whole point.

In his first year of active publication, his work appeared in Nature Futures (Nature magazine), Utopia Science Fiction, the Hugo-nominated Abyss & Apex, and over forty other journals and anthologies across the horror, speculative fiction, and literary fiction landscape. He is a prize-winning writer and an Indigenous author whose work spans both his pseudonym and his given name.

His poetry tends toward the oxymoronic — titles that contain their own contradiction before the first line is written. His fiction tends toward the metafictional, the cosmological, and the deeply, inconveniently funny. His body horror tends to involve Wi-Fi gods and mandatory flesh updates.

He is working on a novel. It has four epilogues. He is not apologizing for that.