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Bio: Tara Campbell is an award-winning writer, teacher, Kimbilio Fellow, fiction co-editor at Barrelhouse, and graduate of American University's MFA in Creative Writing. Publication credits include Masters Review, Wigleaf, Electric Literature, CRAFT Literary, Uncharted Magazine, Daily Science Fiction, Strange Horizons, and Escape Pod/Artemis Rising.

She's the author of the eco sci-fi novel TreeVolution, two hybrid collections of poetry and prose, and two short story collections from feminist sci-fi publisher Aqueduct Press. Her sixth book, City of Dancing Gargoyles (SFWP), is a finalist for the 2025 Philip K. Dick Award and is on Reactor Magazine’s “Best Books of 2024” list and Locus Magazine's 2024 Recommended Reading List.

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Average rating: 4.16 · 596 ratings · 159 reviews · 44 distinct worksSimilar authors
City of Dancing Gargoyles

4.14 avg rating — 70 ratings — published 2024 — 3 editions
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TreeVolution

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Angels and Blueberries

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Cabinet of Wrath: A Doll Co...

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Circe's Bicycle

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Political AF: A Rage Collec...

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Midnight at the Organporium

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The Scent of Lions

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ECO24 by Marissa Van Uden
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Those who think all ecofiction has to be either gushy and "crunchy" or tech-heavy and preachy, take note: these stories are not dry or didactic. They are gorgeous and hypnotic, focused on the impact of changing climates and ecologies on people and so ...more
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The West Facade by Lauren C Johnson
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Johnson casts a spell in this immersive historical fantasy novel. It's the kind of world that leaves you in a dreamy daze after you finish. Johnson writes with such attention to the details of setting, architecture, people, food, and language, I felt ...more
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The House of Illusionists by Vanessa Fogg
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What a magical collection, mesmerizing and satisfying. Each story is a portal into a rich, fantastical new world with beautiful imagery and compelling characters. The language is polished and beautiful, inspiring one to pause and savor before diving ...more
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Bigger by Ren Cedar Fuller
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With clear, honest prose, Ren Cedar Fuller explores how families overcome obstacles in history and society to love one another. Some essays examine her role as daughter, coming to terms with her emotionally unavailable--likely undiagnosed autistic--f ...more
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Happy People Don't Live Here by Amber Sparks
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Quintessential Amber Sparks: strange, quirky, haunted, a little snark, but not so much that characters lose their heart. Witty banter and droll ghosts play their parts, but there's also human struggle at the core: a mother striving to maintain some s ...more
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Everything for Everyone by M.E. O'Brien
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A thought-provoking book in the format of oral history interviews. In this imagined future, political, economic, and environmental calamities around the world have led to the collapse of government as we know it. A series of revolutions have dethrone ...more
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Right by My Side by David Haynes
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I just finished listening to the 2023 re-release of this novel and was transfixed. Though it was originally published in 1993, it still felt fresh and relevant, a testament to Haynes’ ability to focus on the fundamental humanity of the protagonist as ...more
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Your Utopia by Bora Chung
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No wonder this book was a finalist for the Philip K Dick award. Simultaneously clever and haunting, these stories will make you see life from multiple perspectives. The title story and "The End of the Voyage" are particularly cinematic--I'd love to s ...more
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The Lost Journals of Sacajewea by Debra Magpie Earling
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Not easy on the soul, but so worthwhile. Intimate and heartrending, laying bare not only individual loss, but also whole lands and Nations destroyed. And yet: resilience. What else can there be? A gorgeous and important answer to the myopic, jingoist ...more
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