Simo Srinivas writes about all things weird and queer. Their short stories have appeared in several speculative fiction magazines and anthologies, including Fantasy Magazine, Strange Horizons, khōréō, and Archive of the Odd, among others. Simo was a 2025 Lambda Literary Fellow and Tenebrous Press’ Brave New Weird Breakout Author of 2023. When not writing, they can be found on the trail scoping out the ruins of old mining towns and counting pikas. You can also find them on Bluesky @srinivassimo.
2026
“Intergalactic Geographic” in Crab Tales Magazine [forthcoming]
“We Burst Across the Theoretical Gore,” co-written with Sara S. Messenger, in Diabolical Plots [forthcoming]
“The Vetala of Crystal Vellam Inlet,” reprint, in Otherside #1 [forthcoming, March 2026]
2025
“The Hilltop Eel” in Silk and Foxglove: A BIPOC Erotic Eco-Horror Anthology
“A Pale Herd, a Worm Moon” in Plott Hound Magazine #1
“The Windkeeper” in Tales & Feathers Vol. 3
“Tom and Andy Do Magic at Midnight” in Dudes Rock! A Celebration of Queer Masculinity in Speculative Fiction
2024
“Low Contact” in The Horror That Represents You
“A Face-Eating Oracle Envisions Your Future,” poem, in Thank You for Joining the Algorithm (profits go to the Algorithmic Justice League and the European Guild of Artificial Intelligence Regulation)
“The Girls of St. X” in Wilted Pages: An Anthology of Dark Academia
“The Cauldron” in Baffling Magazine #13
2023
“Coalescence” in Worlds of Possibility
“Bozpo Witch-Bane” & Author Spotlight in Fantasy Magazine #93
“The November Lamassus” in Strange Horizons
“Kavo, Beta (Eat, Child)” in Dark Matter Presents: Monstrous Futures
“The Ballad of the Octopus” in khōréō
2022
“A Dark Star Strikes the Stonemason” in Three-Lobed Burning Eye
“Plum Century” in Fantasy Magazine #85
“Rendang” in Deathcap & Hemlock
“The Vetala of Crystal Vellam Inlet” in Decoded Pride #3
“Medusa on a Mountain,” poem, in Punk Noir Magazine
“The Securities and Exchange Commission v. The Undying Sea” in Archive of the Odd #1
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