About
Anastasia is...
originally from wintery northern Wisconsin and now lives in the almost as frigid Twin Cities of Minnesota. She attended college at the University of Wisconsin Superior, where she studied creative writing and Spanish. After college she lived in South America, where she taught English as a second language. Throughout her life she's been a waitress, hypochondriac, teacher, gymnastics coach, insomniac, marketing specialist, check-out-er at a hardware store, and the most painful thing, the job that still gives her stress dreams years later: a call center representative.
She writes surrealism and speculative fiction. Her work often includes LGBTQ characters, fantasy, suspense and dashes of body or existential horror. She crafts flawed but compelling protagonists in stories with poetic prose.
If you like all things strange and gripping, check out her stories.
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What's she reading?
Where's she published?
Anastasia first literary love was Anne Rice, and it was she who sparked her interest in charismatic, supernatural antiheroes.
For fantasy she loves Fonda Lee, S.A. Chakraborty, V.E. Schwab, Simon Jimenez and Seth Dickinsin.
Within Science Fiction she often reads Ken Liu, Becky Chambers, James S.A. Corey and Christopher Ruocchio.
Anastasia is a lifelong fan of Stephen King and enjoys similar authors such as Paul Tremblay.
Apparition Lit
Bending Genres
Psychopomp Magazine
The Molotov Cocktail
Brilliant Flash Fiction
Women on Writing
Dark Matter Magazine
Manawaker Studio's Podcast
Microfiction Monday Magazine
A City in a Wild Garden
The Nemadji Review
