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Joanne Merriam is a writer, poet, and editor. Her poetry collection The Glaze from Breaking , was originally published by Stride Books and re-released by Upper Rubber Boot. Her first novel, Aether and Ego , will be released by Inanna in September 2026.

Her poetry and fiction has appeared in dozens of magazines and journals, including Astropoetica, The Baltimore Review, Escape Pod, Pank, Per Contra, Pictura, and Strange Horizons . A complete list is at her website. Her novel, Aether and Ego, will be released by Inanna in autumn 2026.

From 2011 to 2020, she was the Publisher at Upper Rubber Boot Books, which is now on permanent hiatus and has only one book still in print: the first English-language anthology of solarpunk, Sunvault: ...more

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Sharp & Sugar Tooth (Women Up To No Good #3) by Octavia Cade

Sharp & Sugar Tooth is an anthology of dark fiction and darker appetites, edited by Octavia Cade (author of Food and Horror: Essays on Ravenous Souls, Toothsome Monsters, and Vicious Cravings). NetGalley reviewers can get it now here.

Stories include food as adventure and self-knowledge and negotiation; redemptive funeral cannibalism; sea monsters and cooking pots for the starving; Nigerian ma Read more of this blog post »

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Published on March 06, 2019 18:36 • Tags: arospec, bees, biome, cake, cannibalism, doppelganger, ecosystem, food, food-writing, hives, honey, horror, knife-skills, milk-powder, nigeria, queerplatonic, sea-monsters, vegetarian

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	Choose Wisely: 35 Women Up To No Good by H.L. Nelson (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Joanne Merriam (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Janet Shell Anderson 3.64 avg rating — 53 ratings — published 2015 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	How to Live on Other Planets: A Handbook for Aspiring Aliens by Joanne Merriam (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Dean Francis Alfar (Goodreads Author), Celia Lisset Alvarez (Goodreads Author) 4.13 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 2015 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	140 And Counting by Joanne Merriam (Goodreads Author), Carolyn Agee (Goodreads Author) 4.48 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Museum of All Things Awesome and that Go Boom by Joanne Merriam (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Khadija Anderson (Contributor), Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo (Contributor) 4.46 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2016 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Best of Every Day Poets: One by Oonah V. Joslin (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Constance Brewer (Editor), Nicholas Ozment (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.50 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Broad Knowledge (Women Up to No Good, #2) by Joanne Merriam (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Charlotte Ashley (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), R.S. Benedict (Contributor) 3.79 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2018 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Glaze from Breaking 4.67 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Multitude of Daggers 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Asimov's Science Fiction, April/May 2008 by Sheila Williams (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Kristine Kathryn Rusch (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Kathleen Ann Goonan (Contributor) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2008	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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