Amal El-Mohtar is a Canadian-born child of the Mediterranean, currently pursuing a PhD in English Literature at the Cornwall Campus of the University of Exeter. She received the 2009 Rhysling award for her poem "Song for an Ancient City," and has received a Nebula nomination for "The Green Book," a short story published in the Arab/Muslim issue of APEX magazine. Her work has appeared in many online and print publications, including STRANGE HORIZONS, WEIRD TALES, and IDEOMANCER. A full bibliography is available here: http://www.writertopia.com/profiles/AmalElMohtar. She also co-edits GOBLIN FRUIT, an online quarterly dedicated to fantastical poetry, with Jessica P. Wick. Find it online at http://www.goblinfruit.net. Her work has appeared in many print and online venues, She drinks tremendous amounts of tea, plays the harp, and keeps a Livejournal somewhat tidy at http://tithenai.livejournal.com
Genres: Urban Fantasy, Science Fiction
Series
Flash Fiction Project (with Charlie Jane Anders, Brooke Bolander, Maria Dahvana Headley, Kameron Hurley, Seanan McGuire, Nisi Shawl, Catherynne M Valente, Carrie Vaughn, Jo Walton and Alyssa Wong)
Nevertheless She Persisted (2020)
Nevertheless She Persisted (2020)
Collections
Novellas and Short Stories
Amal El-Mohtar recommends
The Water Outlaws (2023)
S L Huang
"Burning Roses by S. L. Huang is a beautiful, deeply affecting novella that braids Western fairy-tale traditions with Chinese mythology in a way calculated to mash my every emotional button."
Saint Death's Daughter (2022)
(Saint Death, book 1)
C S E Cooney
"Saint Death's Daughter is a tumultuous, swaggering, cackling story, a gorgeous citrus orchard with bones for roots. Miscellaneous Stones' journey into adulthood and power, sorting knowledge from wisdom and vengeance from justice, has an ocean's breadth and depth, its storms and sparkles and salt. Soaring with love and absolutely fizzing with tenderness and joy--I have never read anything so utterly alive."
Last Exit (2022)
Max Gladstone
"Last Exit is Max Gladstone's best work yet, a novel carved by hand out of salt and rock and bone, a road broken clean through a dying country's heart. This is what the Great American Novel wishes it could be: honest, furious, in love."
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Anthologies containing stories by Amal El-Mohtar
From a Certain Point of View: Star Wars: Return of the Jedi (2023)
(Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View, book 3)
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