M. Frost is a queer writer who publishes fiction, essays and poetry, which have appeared in Utopia SF Strange Horizons, Sow’s Ear, The Hopkins Review, Camas, and AntipodeanSF among other venues—including a chapbook (Cow Poetry, Finishing Line Press), a collaboration with brother dee*ah*chur (Constellation, CreateSuite), and a new chapbook of speculative poetry (Women of Myth, Island of Wak-Wak).
FAQs
Why the gap: 2014-2024? Blame science, that other, impossibly demanding life.
Why use a pen name? Again, blame science. Because I do some cool science things under a different version of my given name. (M. Frost is a version of my real name, but not the version I use for science.)
Science, really? Yes, I try to prevent pandemics for a living and promote the importance of the human-animal-environment interface for public health. No, preventing pandemics doesn’t pay that well—especially these days. But I have been published in Science (policy forum), Lancet (ID and global health), JAMA, JAVMA, and Emerging Infectious Diseases (among many others).
Fun fact—scientists spend a ton of time to fund their work, do their work, then they have to pay to publish, or maybe they get lucky with a freebie. Additional fun fact—writing a NYT op/ed (a fraction of the work of ‘original research’) actually DOES pay.
Haven’t you written some novels? Yes. Perhaps four are fully drafted and with beta readers. What’s your point?
::gleam in the eye:: I could use a few more beta readers…
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