Loren (L.M.) Guay

A tortoiseshell cat in loaf mode looking deeply unimpressed at a poetry chapbook titled Living Fossils

A black and white cat sitting on top of the poetry collection Living Fossils. He can't read, but it makes a great bed.

the best thing about a new poetry collection is that it can double as an inexpensive cat bed and/or object of scorn

happy official pub day to LIVING FOSSILS, out now from Texas Review Press 📖

www.tamupress.com/book/9781680...

About: The Trans Rights Readathon is an annual call to action to readers and book lovers in support of Trans Day of Visibility (TDOV) on March 31st. How to participate: read and uplift books written by and/or featuring trans, nonbinary, 2Spirit, and gender-nonconforming authors and characters. Donate and fundraise for trans aid organizations in your community.

#TransRightsReadathon begins soon. It's a decentralized event, which means you don't have to sign up or do anything in particular, you just have to love trans people and trans books. Here's what I'm doing this year 🧵

@trreadathon.bsky.social

I am going to link to organizations that I know for sure are helping trans Kansans. This thread will develop slowly as I either know people or will vet them.

At this point we have not heard from anyone being helped via relocation resources. These exist, but I assume they are overwhelmed.

On the record as profoundly and violently sick of this shit

Author holding a just-unboxed physical copy of their poetry collection, Living Fossils: Poems.

highly recommend holding your real life poems in your real life hands instead of paying attention to the agonies

if you like poems about weird creatures & queer/trans survival, LIVING FOSSILS is out March 10 (!!)
www.tamupress.com/book/9781680...

Cool Stuff for 2026! I’ve wanted to include more speculative poetry in my roundups, so I’m excited to announce that MicroVerse will have four dedicated poetry editions in 2026. And the best part is the guest editors wh…

MicroVerse will have 4 dedicated poetry editions in 2026! Look for poetry recs from guest editors Marisca Pichette, Loren Maria Guay, Angela Liu, and Ai Jiang!

I'm grateful to these fantastic poets!!

@marisca.bsky.social @nightgleaming.bsky.social @angelaliu.bsky.social @aijiang.bsky.social

Conflicting info about whether Pretti was murdered by ICE or CBP makes it clear that ICE is not single "rogue agency"

ICE, CBP and ALL policing & borders must be abolished. This isn't just one agency; its an entire infrastructure of carceral control, illegalization & criminalization, and fascism.

oh no, are publishers getting squeamish about buying queer books right now for some impossible-to-guess reason??

sounds like our books need to get even more queer, relentlessly queer, battle-axe queer, cackling queer

And we said abolish ICE too. ICE is not inevitable, its existence is not settled —even as it fortifies the settler state. Historically speaking, that ain’t certain either.

Available for pre-order now, coming Feb 2026. Promo of Living Fossils by Loren Maria Guay, poems. Winner of the 2025 Robert Phillips Chapbook Prize. Published with TRP: the University Press of SHSU.

& of course the big news I'll repeat until everyone gets sick of it: my debut poetry chapbook LIVING FOSSILS will be out feb 2026 @ texas review press, open for pre-orders now! (also at bookshop, waterstones, etc.).

www.tamupress.com/book/9781680...

this year I published one prose poem "Exhibition Notes: Portrait of Arapaima at the All-Night Diner" at the fabulous @beestung.bsky.social that was also nominated for the pushcart, best microfiction, and best small fictions (aaah)

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Titanium Noir by Nick Harkaway, You Dreamed of Empires by Alvaro Enrigue, Private Rites by Julia Armfield, Notes from a Regicide by Isaac Fellman, The Trackers of Oxyrhynchus by Tony Harrison, Woodwoorm by Layla Martinez, Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay, Of Cattle and Men by Ana Paula Maia

2025 eligibility post: like many of us I was Eligible for having a nervous breakdown & yet I did not do that, wow! however I also did not publish any fiction. here are some books (& one play) by other people I enjoyed reading very much instead

Dear bluskeeters!

I'm doing research with a friend.
If you're a Black Author with a speculative book publishing in 2026, could you please pitch and link me, please? This a difficult to sus intersection.

Please add your friends' work. Please tag people. Please share

Protect Trans Care Now As wave after wave of extreme measures to criminalize and strip trans people of rights and safety continue, tell Congress to act.

Tomorrow, the House of Representatives will vote on a bill that bans gender-affirming medical care for any transgender person under 18, and threatens any medical professional providing this care to youth with 10 years in prison.

Tell Congress to protect trans youth and vote NO.

Judge: residents must move out, ICE-raided South Shore building is uninhabitable • The TRiiBE The tenants of the property at 7500 S. South Shore Drive are ordered to leave the property by Friday.

UPDATE — For those who want to help, there’s now a way to donate directly to the 7500 South Shore Tenants Union to help with emergency relocation costs as residents “vacate in one of the snowiest winters in Chicago’s history.”

Details in our story.

thetriibe.com/2025/12/judg...

We shed as we pick up, like travelers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind. The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march. But there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it. The missing plays of Sophocles will turn up piece by piece, or be written again in another language. Ancient cures for diseases will reveal themselves once more. Mathematical discoveries glimpsed and lost to view will have their time again. You do not suppose, my lady, that if all Archimedes had been hiding in the great library of Alexandria, we would be at a loss for corkscrew?

Arcadia.

Promo post for upcoming book: LIVING FOSSILS, poems by Loren Maria Guay. Available for pre-order now, coming Feb. 2026 from TRP. Winner of the 2025 Robert Phillips Chapbook Prize.

thrilled to announce that my debut poetry collection LIVING FOSSILS is now available for pre-order from TRP! tell your cats, tell your friends, support queer/trans literature and art [coelacanth emoji when]

www.tamupress.com/book/9781680...

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Huge congratulations and good luck to beestung's 2026 Best Microfiction nominees!

em roth
nat raum
Loren Maria Guay
Yufan Lu
sterling-elizabeth arcadia

Read their work at beestungmag.com

A Year of Refusal Maggie Fernandes, University of ArkansasMegan McIntyre, University of ArkansasJennifer Sano-Franchini, West Virginia University Photo by Francis Glenn Marciano on Pexels.com It’s been about a year …

A new post on Refusing GenAI in Writing Studies from @jsanofranchini.bsky.social, @rcmeg.bsky.social, and me: "A Year of Refusal"

refusinggenai.wordpress.com/2025/11/12/a...

Thanks to Rex for spotting this one! Necropolis contains 5 stories about strange, decaying cities and is now available for purchase at Hexagon's patreon!
@alexfox.bsky.social @omersarae.bsky.social @nightgleaming.bsky.social @improbablerex.bsky.social and Victoria!
cover art by @warls.bsky.social

fact: transphobia is for losers

Detroit Institute of Arts Cultural Workers United

workers at Detroit Institute of Arts are announcing a wall-to-wall union drive for all staff at the museum. DIA is an amazing museum with a ton of incredible exhibits.

if you could sign the petition, that may help motivate museum leadership to voluntarily recognize the union.

diaworkersunited.org

it should be illegal to move your cat off-camera during a Zoom meeting

Rogers Park Immigrant Families Need Your Support Please give as you are able AND share this page! If you have friends and family asking how they can support Chicago in this difficult time, this is a way to directly support families. Go FundMe Link...

If you would like to support some of the families of people who have been abducted by ICE in my area during the recent federal attacks on our community that I've written about, local organizers have put together this trusted list of crowd funds.

It’s hard to convey just how much Chicagoans are mobilizing against ICE. Don’t want to downplay the harm, or make it seem like a fair fight. But in neighborhoods across this city, ICE is getting chased by people blowing whistles and shouting. People are running TOWARD ICE to protect their neighbors.

They Came for Our Neighbors. We Showed Up. Before long, there were dozens, and then hundreds of people in the streets, watching and responding.

My latest is the story of how my community has rallied to protect and defend our neighbors in recent days, as ICE has targeted the Rogers Park neighborhood in Chicago. "This is not a story about a moment of victory, but a moment of being reminded of our power."

If you'd like to see beestung keep buzzing, please consider dropping a few bucks our way 🖤💛🖤💛

A Short Fiction Treasures Special: 2 x 25 Gems from Strange Horizons’ Archives Going through the archives of Strange Horizons for this special column has been a bit like exploring a treasure chamber. I’ve picked fifty stories. I could have picked hundreds. Meaning: I left a l…

Strange Horizons turns 25 this year, which is pretty much an eternity in the world of spec fic zines, and I had the privilege of going through the archives for a special short fiction roundup: 2 x 25 Gems from Strange Horizons’ Archives

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