Books

Signed copies of all of my books are available through Astoria Bookshop. Other purchase links are below!

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Dead Girls Don’t Dream
Bookshop.org | Amazon | BN | Publisher
Available for Pre-order!
Release date: November 12, 2024

There are rules for Voynich Woods: Always carry a whistle. Never go alone. Always come home before dark. And if anyone calls your name, don’t answer. Because everyone who wanders from the path is never seen again.

Except for Riley Walcott.

Riley knows better than to stray from the trail in the woods behind her uncle Toby’s house. But her little sister Sam breaks the rules in pursuit of a local legend, so Riley chases after her and discovers a knife-wielding figure and a waiting grave.

Madelyn lives deep in the forest. Subject to her mother’s strict rules, she’s forbidden from leaving home or using her magic – but one night, she risks everything to help a stranger who’s lost in the woods.

Riley is murdered in a strange ritual, Madelyn uses her magic to resurrect her, and their lives are immediately entwined in the gnarled history of Voynich Woods. Riley, who feels trapped in her small town but too afraid to leave, was never a believer, but now the evidence is taking root under her skin. Madelyn has the scars to prove how terrible magic can be, and longs for a life beyond her mother’s grasp. As the legends become all too real, Riley and Madelyn must confront their deepest fears to uncover the truth about Voynich Woods.

At once tender, violent, and thrilling, Dead Girls Don’t Dream is a novel of recovery, healing, and finding your power.

Content warnings: This is a horror novel, and includes several scenes of violence and body horror. It also talks frankly about living with a parent struggling with addiction, and growing up with an abusive, controlling parent. It has scenes containing depictions of the following:

• Violence, abuse, and death
• Drug overdose (and its successful reversal)
• Body horror
• Corpses

Homesick: Stories
Bookshop.org | Indiebound | Amazon | BN | Publisher
Release date: October 15, 2019
Winner of the Dzanc Short Fiction Collection Prize
Finalist for the Shirley Jackson and World Fantasy Awards

Dark, irreverent, and truly innovative, the nine speculative stories in Homesick meditate on the theme of home and our estrangement from it, and what happens when the familiar suddenly shifts into the uncanny. In stories that foreground queer relationships and transgender or nonbinary characters, Cipri delivers the origin story for a superhero team comprised of murdered girls; a housecleaner discovering an impossible ocean in her least-favorite clients’ house; a man haunted by keys that appear suddenly in his throat; and a team of scientists and activists discovering the remains of a long-extinct species of intelligent weasels. 

Content warnings: This collection contains several horror stories. The following content warnings apply to individual stories or the collection as a whole:

• Violence and abuse, including towards children (mostly off screen)
• Depictions of homophobia, transphobia, and racist microagressions
• Gender dysphoria
• Suicide (off screen)
• Depictions of dementia

Finna (LitenVerse #1)
Bookshop.org | Indiebound | Amazon | BN | Publisher
Release date: February 20, 2020
Finalist for the Lambda award in Transgender Fiction
Finalist for the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus awards for Best Novella
Finalist for the Ignotus Award for Best Short Foreign Novel

Finna is a rambunctious, touching story that blends all the horrors the multiverse has to offer with the everyday awfulness of low-wage work. It explores queer relationships and queer feelings, capitalism and accountability, labor and love, all with a bouncing sense of humor and a commitment to the strange.

When an elderly customer at a big box furniture store slips through a portal to another dimension, it’s up to two minimum-wage employees to track her across the multiverse and protect their company’s bottom line. Multi-dimensional swashbuckling would be hard enough, but those two unfortunate souls broke up a week ago.

To find the missing grandma, Ava and Jules will brave carnivorous furniture, swarms of identical spokespeople, and the deep resentment simmering between them. Can friendship blossom from the ashes of their relationship? In infinite dimensions, all things are possible.

Content warnings: This novella contains several scenes that are suspenseful — not horror, but possibly horror-adjacent to sensitive readers. Content warnings include:

• Characters with mental illness (depression and anxiety)
• Messy breakup feelings
• Depictions of transphobia 
• Violence
• Off-screen minor character death
• Blood
• Monsters

Defekt (LitenVerse #2)
Bookshop.org | Indiebound | Amazon | BN | Publisher
Release date: April 20, 2021
Winner of the British Fantasy Award
Finalist for the Phillip K. Dick Award
Finalist for the Locus Award for Best Novella
Finalist for the Ignotus Award for Best Foreign Novel

Derek is LitenVärld’s most loyal employee. He lives and breathes the job, from the moment he wakes up in a converted shipping container at the edge of the parking lot to the second he clocks out of work 18 hours later. But after taking his first ever sick day, his manager calls that loyalty into question. An excellent employee like Derek, an employee made to work at LitenVärld, shouldn’t need time off.

To test his commitment to the job, Derek is assigned to a special inventory shift, hunting through the store to find defective products. Toy chests with pincers and eye stalks, ambulatory sleeper sofas, killer mutant toilets, that kind of thing. Helping him is the inventory team — four strangers who look and sound almost exactly like him. Are five Dereks better than one?

Content warnings: This novella contains several scenes that are horror-adjacent. It’s a little darker than Finna overall.

• Body transformation
• Blood
• Graphic violence against anthropomorphic furniture
• Less graphic violence against humans
• Abusive dynamics

Aventuras en el Litenverso
Translated by Carla Bataller Estruch
Publisher | Amazon
Release date: December 2, 2022
Finalist for the Ignotus Award for Best Foreign Novel/Best Foreign Short Novel

Crononauta has published an omnibus edition of the Spanish translations of FINNA and DEFEKT. 

Liner Notes — $1.99 at Smashwords
Loosely based on the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, Liner Notes is, at its heart, an ode to all the punk music that got me through being a lonely teenager. It’s about being young, being torn away from your best friend, and about how we deal with the pain of loneliness. This chapbook was designed and illustrated by Amanda Blix.