FICTION (Content Notes)

• “Clearing,” ekphrastic micro fiction published by Hotch Potch Literature & Art (October 2025)
  
  
• “Origin and Insertion,” flash fiction story published by Tendrils Journal (June 2025)
  
  
• “When did you last hold earth in your hands?,” flash fiction story published by Vagabond City. (February 2025)
  
  
• “Updraft,” selected to kick off Voyage YA’s “Three-Sentence Story” series, published on Instagram (September 2024)
  
  
• “Natural Selection” in the “Just Love” section of Just YA (OSU Libraries/OpenOKState September 2024); flash fiction story included open-license resource for educators available digitally for free or in print at cost; author talk reading and interview with editor Sarah J. Donovan also available on YouTube.
  
  
• “Everything they taught us about horticulture is a lie.” Flash fiction story in Issue 27 of Black Fox Literary Magazine (August 2024)
  • “…magic unmistakably appears in a breathtaking moment that completely hijacked my brain and heart in such a way that it felt like spring during the coldest day of the year.”
    –Lit Mag News
    
    
• “How We Founded Club Feathers at the Discard Depot” in We Mostly Come Out at Night, edited by Rob Costello (Running Press Teen May 2024)
  • Lambda Literary Awards Finalist, LGBTQ+ Anthology 2025
  • Locus Awards Top Ten Finalist, Anthology 2025
  • 10 LGBTQ+ YA Fantasy Novels to Inspire Teens to Live Their Truth, People Magazine 2025
  • Bram Stoker Awards Nominee for Superior Achievement in an Anthology 2024.
  • A Cybils Awards Finalist in YA Speculative Fiction
  • Named one of the Best Books of 2024 for Teens by the New York Public Library; one of the Best Young Adult Horror & Dark Fiction of 2024 by Ginger Nuts of Horror, a “must-read” Notable Young Adult Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Horror of 2024 by Reactor, and a 2025 “Quick Pick for Reluctant Young Adult Readers” by the Young Adult Library Services Association/ALA.
  • “How We Founded Club Feathers at the Discard Depot by [S] Maxfield is the perfect story to close out the anthology. …a lovely moment of queer joy and a safe space to celebrate, while also acknowledging the bravery required to choose your happiness amidst pressure to conform.” —A.C. Wise
  • “We Mostly Come Out at Night is deeply original even in its retellings. A seductive ‘Sleeping Beauty’ villainess crashes a high school prom to rally the gays in [S] Maxfield’s entry, ‘How We Founded Club Feathers at the Discard Depot,‘…The message here? ‘Too bad, world. You will make space.’” — Shelf Awareness (Starred Review)
    
    
• Assorted Sweets; Successfully funded Kickstarter mini collection of three YA comics with art by Swayam Parekh, Maiyashu, and Lilith Wu (January 2024); digital version (with full alt-text) on sale via Ko-fi; (Print version SOLD OUT at the legendary Forbidden Planet comic shop in NYC)

• “Buried Treasure”; Voyage YA by Uncharted Lucky No. 7 Flash Fiction Contest (2nd place winner; July 2023)
  
  
• “Bracing”; WinC Magazine (December 2021)
  Flash fiction story published in quarterly magazine of the Women in Comics Collective; also available in Annual print collection (Volume 1)
  

OTHER WORKS

From 2001 until 2016, I created a variety of performance texts and texts exploring performance, including dramaturgical interviews, context notes for audiences, trend critiques, and more. Most of my writing from this time was as ephemeral as live performance (and the earlier days of the Internet), but some persists—particularly in Contact Quarterly, Movement Research’s Critical Correspondence, and The Brooklyn Rail. Also, this video of my 2011 love letter to Performance Space 122 still remains.