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Maressa Voss is the author of When Shadows Grow Tall, a literary fantasy published with Roundfire Books in August 2024. She has short fiction in Trollbreath Magazine (Dec. '24 and Sept. '25) and in Moonday Magazine (Oct. '25).

Her upcoming work is a literary standalone novel set in a near-future Southern California.

A seasonal fruit enthusiast, seed saver and lover of liminal zones, her writing tends to explore the intersections of ecology, systems of power and the wider boundaries of the heart. She has a degree in Classics with an emphasis in Language and Literature.

Find her at www.maressavoss.com, Instagram @maressakate, Blue Sky @maressakate. ...more

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