M. Frost is a queer writer who publishes fiction, essays and poetry. These have appeared in Utopia SF, Strange Horizons, Sow’s Ear, The Hopkins Review, 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 The March (The Arcanist).
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…
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