M. Frost is a queer writer who publishes poetry, essays, creative non-fiction, and fiction. These have appeared in Utopia SF, Strange Horizons, Sow’s Ear, Roses & Wildflowers, The Hopkins Review, Dreams & Nightmares, Camas, and AntipodeanSF, among other venues–with chapbooks Cow Poetry (Finishing Line Press), Constellation (a collaboration with brother/artist dee*ah*chur), Elgin-nominated Women of Myth (Island of Wak-Wak), and most recently The March (The Arcanist).
I’m a first reader for poetry with Roses & Wildflowers–we’re often open, and we love good mythopoetic work, submit!
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, and disseminate their work. After that, they often have to pay to publish their findings. 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…
Sigil courtesy of WyldWood Studios
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