Sneak Peak: Studies in the Fantastic No. 16

Our editorial board member and regular contributor Christina Connor sat down (virtually!) for an interview with Tananarive Due, author of the 2023 World Fantasy Award-winning short story “Incident at Bear Creek Lodge” and the new hit novel The Reformatory (2023). They discussed Due’s process of becoming a horror writer, the use of fictional horror as a way to… Continue reading Sneak Peak: Studies in the Fantastic No. 16

Studies in the Fantastic No. 15 Editor’s Note: “Loungewear 4 the Apocalypse”

As we get ready to send Issue 15 of Studies in the Fantastic off to print, I wanted to take a moment to contextualize our cover art. The artist, Chloe St. Aubin, is a recent graduate of the University of Tampa, and the image that is featured on the cover is a detail from her BFA graduate… Continue reading Studies in the Fantastic No. 15 Editor’s Note: “Loungewear 4 the Apocalypse”

The University of Tampa Press Interviews: A Conversation with Lorraine Monteagut

Joel Lee, an author and current writing student at The University of Tampa, conducted an interview with Lorraine Monteagut, author of the Waterman Fund Essay Winner, “The Wild Self: What Is Wild to One is Home to Another,” (Appalachia: Vol. 72: No. 1, Article 15) and the book Brujas: The Magic and Power of Witches of Color (Chicago Review Press, 2021). 

Forthcoming June 2023: Fool in a Blue House by Katherine Gaffney

Available for preorder now! Reviews “Katherine Gaffney’s Fool in a Blue House swings with honesty between the ideal life imagined in a model kitchen and the more true place where we find ourselves. Dwelling in the space where these two worlds intersect, Gaffney’s poems masterfully capture “a life / of waiting and counting” though they ultimately arrive at… Continue reading Forthcoming June 2023: Fool in a Blue House by Katherine Gaffney

April 2023 News

New Release Alert! The Inextinguishable, Poems by Michael Lavers “The Inextinguishable is a book of the biggest, oldest, questions: Why are we here? What are we for? What is enough? To make the old resonate in a way that is bruising, clarifying, stunning—this is poetry’s greatest task. And Michael Lavers seems made for it, writing poems that… Continue reading April 2023 News

Forthcoming April 2023: The Inextinguishable, poems by Michael Lavers

“I’d have thought these the lost poems of Alyosha Karamazov, come to light when so much poetry seems to have been written by Ivan. The relentless lovingness of Michael Lavers’ poems at first tempted me to draw back, as an implicit judgement on whatever in me is unloving or petty or merely clever. But I couldn’t… Continue reading Forthcoming April 2023: The Inextinguishable, poems by Michael Lavers