Your Body is a Fever Dream

Overview

YOUR BODY IS A DEVER DREAM is A cosmic body horror anthology from trans and GNC voices, a companion volume to YOUR BODY IS NOT YOUR BODY, and a charity drive all rolled into one.Over thirty Trans and Gender Nonconforming writers and artists come together in this energetic, fierce, and richly illustrated volume. Great unknowable forces, big concepts, space, dimensions, existential drama, good ol' body horror, cosmic dread, genre blending, weird formats, and creativity abound.Currently aiming to contribute to:Trans Legal Services NetworkTrans Doe Task Force

Author Biography

Bev Litkin is a writer, artist and activist in San Francisco. Ziggy Schutz (she/him/he/her) is a bigender, disabled butch who is at all times looking for ways to make his favourite fairytales and horror stories reflect people who look a little more like her. You can find more about his writing at linktr.ee/ziggyschutz. Elena Sichrovksy (she/they/it) is a queer disabled author and cult survivor. They find gender euphoria in deep sea creatures, Don Hertzfeldt films, and the soundtrack from Annihilation. Read more of her published poetry and prose at elenasichrovsky.com. Alex Woodroe (she/her) is a Romanian writer of dark speculative fiction and Shirley Jackson Award-nominated editor-in-chief of Tenebrous Press. She’s the author of Whisperwood, The Night Ship, and Tatratea, and has several short stories and articles published in venues such as Nightmare Magazine and the Nosleep podcast. Alex lives in the heart of the Transylvanian region of Romania. Bella Chacha is a Nigerian writer whose work blends folklore, memory, and the transformative power of imagination. Her writing has appeared in Flame Tree Publishing, Cast of Wonders, Channel magazine and she was a runner-up in the Defenestrationism.net 2025 short story contest. Avi Burton (they/he) writes strange, sad, and speculative fiction. One of their first stories was published in the original Your Body Is Not Your Body anthology, and they are thrilled to work with Tenebrous Press once again. You can find more of Avi's work on their website, www.aviburton.com, or on Bluesky, @aviburton.bsky.social. Jef Rouner (they/them) is an award-winning journalist, host of the Friday Nightmare on TikTok, and horror author from Houston, Texas. Their work has appeared in Dark Spores, Oklahoma Pagan Quartley, and the Society of Misfit Stories. Two collections of their stories, Stranger Words and The Rook Circle, are available from CHBB Publishing. Wren Hern’s work has been published in Project 2052: Revolutionary Dispatches from the World of Everything for Everyone (Common Notions). She can be reached if you are pure of heart. Morgan Wodring (he/they/it) is a neuroqueer pagan living in York, UK with Dorset roots. A molecular biologist by day, it spends the remaining hours painting, weaving and writing. Ashe Thurman is a writer and ex-indie game developer out of Texas that would volunteer as host for a symbiotic alien intelligence maybe a little too quickly. Their other work and occasional nerd rant can be found at pixelsandpins.com. Jordan Kurella is a trans and disabled author who has lived all over the world (including Moscow and Manhattan). His work has been nominated for the Nebula Award, the Sturgeon Award, and the LA Times Book Prize. He has three books published. Gabrielle Bleu writes luminous science fiction and fantasy. Their work has appeared in Solstitia, Astral, Alien Fiction, and in the Gargantua anthology by Air and Nothingness Press, among others. Find more of Bleu's work at gabriellebleu.com, or follow her @gabriellebleu.bsky.social?. Dave V. Riser is a genre-hopping ghoul. His work has appeared in a number of other places, including The Arkansas International, Bloodletter Magazine, and Dark Matter Presents: The Off-Season. Find him on Bluesky @davevriser. Alex Hera is a writer, film director, and alternate reality game developer. At a young age, Alex was exposed to weird independent horror projects on the internet, and they were never the same. Morgan Wodring (he/they/it) is a neuroqueer pagan living in York, UK with Dorset roots. A molecular biologist by day, it spends the remaining hours painting, weaving and writing. Bitter Karella (He/She/They) is a genderfluid transvestite goblin and creator of the three time Hugo-nominated microfiction comedy account Midnight Pals. Her novella "The Ballad of Horse Girl" was published by Tenebrous Press in Split Scream Vol. Five, and his first novel, Moonflow, is now available