Books Published
“Ravishing flights of fantasy.”
Priya Sharma, Shirley Jackson Award-winning author of All the Fabulous Beasts and Ormeshadow
Dead Girl, Driving and Other Devastations, Trepidatio Publishing, March 2024.
In this powerful debut, Carina Bissett explores the liminal spaces between the magical and the mundane, horror and humor, fairy tales and fabulism. A young woman discovers apotheosis at the intersection of her cross-cultural heritage. A simulacrum rebels against her coding to create a new universe of her own making. A poison assassin tears the world apart in the relentless pursuit of her true love—the one person alive who can destroy her. Dead Girl, Driving and Other Devastations erases expectations, forging new trails on the map of contemporary fiction. Includes an introduction by Julie C. Day, author of Uncommon Miracles and The Rampant.
“Carina Bissett is one of my favorite speculative authors writing today—magic and myth, horror and revenge, wonder and hope. Her stories are original, lyrical, and haunting—Shirley Jackson mixed with Ursula LeGuin and a dash of Neil Gaiman. An amazing collection of stories.”
Richard Thomas, author of Spontaneous Human Combustion, a Bram Stoker Award finalist
Stories Published
“Twice in the Telling,” NightLand Quarterly. Reprint. November 2024.
“The Syntax of Silk” | Divergence,” Inter Library Loan, Air and Nothingness Press. October 2024.
“The Stages of Monster Grief: A Guide for Middle-aged Vampires,” NoSleep Podcast. Reprint. April 2024.
“Water Like Broken Glass,” The Dark. Reprint. April 2024.
“The First Day of the Week,” Flash Fiction Online. November 2023.
“Memento mori,” Librarian Card Catalogue, Air and Nothingness Press. September 2023.
“Water Like Broken Glass,” Into the Forest, Black Spot Books. November 2022.
“Serpents and Toads,” Night Land Quarterly Vol. 30. September 2022. Reprint. Japanese translation.
“Dead Girl, Driving,” What Remains, Firbolg Publishing. May 2022.
“When the Darkness Calls,” An Exquisite Corpse: A Dystopia Rising: Evolution Anthology, Onyx Path Publishing. December 2021.
“An Embrace of Poisonous Intent,” Night Land Quarterly Vol. 25. June 2021. Reprint. Japanese translation.
“A Seed Planted,” The Society of Misfit Stories, Bards & Sages. June 2021. Reprint.
“Twice in the Telling,” Upon a Twice Time, Air and Nothingness Press. May 2021.
“Serpents and Toads,” Gluttony, Black Hare Press. March 2021. Reprint.
“The Certainty of Silence,” Twisted Anatomy, Sci-Fi & Scary. February 2021.
“An Embrace of Poisonous Intent,” Bitter Distillations: An Anthology of Poisonous Tales, Egaeus Press. December 2020.
Chapter vignettes, Lost Citadel Roleplaying, Green Ronin Publishing. December 2020.
“The Stages of Monster Grief: A Guide for Middle-aged Vampires,” Coffin Blossoms, Jolly Horror Press. October 2020.
“An Authentic Experience,” WILD: Uncivilized Tales from Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers, RMFW Press. August 2020. *FINALIST-Anthology, Colorado Book Awards.
“Aviatrix Unbound,” Triangulation: Extinction, Parsec Ink. August 2020.
“A Seed Planted,” Night Land Quarterly Vol. 21, June 2020. Reprint. Japanese translation.
“The Landscape of Lacrimation,” Weird Dream Society. May 2020. Reprint.
“Rotten,” Arterial Bloom, Crystal Lake Publishing, March 2020. *FINALIST-Superior Achievement in an Anthology, Stoker Awards.
“Grey Matters,” Chrysalis: Fairy Tale Transformations, Fantasia Divinity Magazine. February 2020.
“Gaze with Undimmed Eyes and the World Drops Dead,” Terror at 5280′, Denver Horror Collective. November 2019. *WINNER-Fiction: Anthology, The 2020 Best Book Awards.
“Burning Bright,” Gorgon: Stories of Emergence, Pantheon. February 2019.
“A Seed Planted,” Hath No Fury, Ragnorak Publications. August 2018.
“Cracked,” Stonecoast Review, Issue #9, July 2018.
“The Landscape of Lacrimation,” The Hunger, May 2018.
“Serpents and Toads,” Enchanted Conversations, April 2017.
“After Dark, When White Things Whisper,” NonBinary Review #11 Anne of Green Gables, Zoetic Press, December 2016.
“Plastic,” Drunk Monkeys, December 2015.
“Her Scarlet Purse of Dreams,” Baba Yaga, Issue #5. Timeless Tales, November 2015.
“The Yellow Press of an Ancient Power,” NonBinary Review #5 The King in Yellow, Zoetic Press, June 2015. *Nominated for Sundress Best of the Net.
“More Wings than the Wind Knows,” Perseus & Medusa, Issue #4. Timeless Tales. June 2015.
“Desert Places,” Dark Lane Anthology Volume 1, Dark Lane Quarterly Collaborative. April 7, 2015.
“Tuning Philomel’s Steely Strings in the Wasteland’s Dark Matter,” NonBinary Review #4 Bulfinch’s Mythology, Zoetic Press, April 2015.
“Forbidden Fruit,” Twice Upon a Time: Fairytale, Folklore, & Myth. Reimagined & Remastered, The Bearded Scribe Press. February 13, 2015.
“Beastly Bridegrooms Anonymous,” Faery Tale Therapy, Write-On Nanos, November 17, 2014.
Essays Published
“Walk the Line,” You’re Not Alone in the Dark, edited by Eugene Johnson and Eric J. Guignard, Cemetery Dance. November 2024.
“Mapping the Collective Body of Frankenstein’s Brides,” A Vindication Of Monsters: Essays On Mary Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft. Reprint. October 2023.
“Words Wielded by Women,” Apex Magazine, Issue 138. May 2023.
“The Future of Horror: Evolution or Revolution?,” The Evolution of Horror in the 21st Century and Beyond, edited by Simon Bacon, Lexington Books. March 2023.
“Into the Dark Wood: Fairy Tale Poetry,” Writing Poetry in the Dark, edited by Stephanie M. Wytovich, Raw Dog Screaming Press. October 2022.
“Mapping the Collective Body of Frankenstein’s Brides,” Birthing Monsters: Frankenstein’s Cabinet of Curiosities and Cruelties, Firbolg Publishing. October 2018.
Forward, Alice in Wonderland, NonBinary Review #10 Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Zoetic Press, August 2016.
Encyclopedia Entries (“Beauty and the Beast Folklore,” “The Blue Nun,” “Game Songs and Rhymes,” “Lozen,” “Lumberjack Tales”), American Myths, Legends, and Tall Tales: An Encyclopedia of American Folklore, ABC-CLIO, August 2016.
“Victorious,” NonBinary Review #2 Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Zoetic Press, November 2014.
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