Marisca Pichette (she/they)

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Cover of DEFILER features art of a horseman viewed in profile facing right, tentacles sprouting from their back. Color palette is black, dark teal, and vibrant red. Edited by Eric Fomley, authors include Liam Hogan, Henry Herz, Marisca Pichette, HR Laurence, and Beth Goder.
Photo of Rivers in Your Skin, Sirens in Your Hair on cross stitch botanical patten textile background. To the right of book are three slices of dried citrus. To the left of book is a citrine crystal and a bookmark with the cover art. Cover are depicts a right hand reaching up towards a crystal stylus on a dark background, circled by flower petals while a white betta fish and butterflies flutter just above. A digital banner at the top of the photo reads “Turning three!”
Photo of Bombur loafing under the coffee table. He is viewed from the front and gazes slightly to the side, looking approximately like a pile of black floof with green eyes.
Cover of MONSTERF#UCK anthology from Incision Press. Graphic has banner at top saying "Pre-orders now open" and diagonal banner in center reading "Featuring Marisca Pichette." Incision Press logo at bottom. Cover art depicts a femme with a septum ring posing in green and neon light, her fingers curling into tentacles.
Screenshot of THE ELEMENTS OF DARK ACADEMIA up for preorder at Penguin Books UK. Cover art: dark background with Dutch florals, text overlay “The Elements Of” in light serif along top and “DARK / ACAD / EMIA” in bold chartreuse across cover.
Photo of six books spine up on a sheet. Left to right: THE SUBTLE ART OF FOLDING SPACE, CREATURES OF WANT AND RUIN, AND SIDE BY SIDE THEY WANDER, CALL AND RESPONSE, SPEAR, and THIS NEXT SONG IS CALLED PUNK ROCK VALHALLA.
Photo of right hand holding up EVERY DARK CLOUD in front of a bookcase stacked with books and carved mushrooms and dried flowers. Cover art: figure standing in center of teal and black mushrooms with a yellow and white bank of clouds above, through which a minute silhouette is falling.
Graphic with the following text: Rhysling Award: Short Poems elegy to a meadow This Exquisite Topology Auragami This Exquisite Topology What the Unicorn's Horn Feels Our Dearest Devotions threnody, adrift F(r)iction #24: The Oceans Issue triboluminescence: a first-hand account F(r)iction #24: The Oceans Issue two hundred miles from Long Beach F(r)iction #24: The Oceans Issue Lagomorpha Penumbric Speculative Fiction Magazine, April 2025 When the Shadows Showed All Kaleidotrope, Spring 2025 and holes in the roof to welcome rain Star*Line 48.2 geomancy Star*Line 48.2
Graphic with the following text: 2025 Awards Eligibility: Poetry by Marisca Pichette Hugo & Nebula Awards 24 poems Rhysling Award: Short Poems 18 poems Rhysling Award: Long Poems 1 poem Dwarf Stars Award 5 poems
Graphic displaying cover for EVERY DARK CLOUD, 2025 novella by Marisca Pichette from Ghost Orchid Press.
Photo of EVERY DARK CLOUD on a Victorian mortician’s table flanked by plants and bones.
Photo of two paperback books on orange ottoman: “Wedding of the Foxes” by Katherine Larson on the left and “The Man in the Banana Trees” by Marguerite Sheffer on the right.
Graphic on cosmic blue and purple background with text “Rhysling Award Finalist: Short Poem / Make me a sandwich / Star*Line 47.2 / Voting Deadline: September 15”
Graphic with sepia toned bookshelves in background and two headshots centered: Lauren Bajek on left and Marisca Pichette on right. Text above reads “Signed!” with Liza Dawson Associates logo underneath.
Photo of Rivers in Your Skin, Sirens in Your Hair and Every Dark Cloud on a brightly colored striped silk scarf.
Photo of poetry collection, Rivers in Your Skin, Sirens in Your Hair resting amount bright green grass and sunny field daisies.
Photo of EVERY DARK CLOUD standing on scarf with design featuring Van Gogh’s iris painting.
Photo of left hand holding three copies of EVERY DARK CLOUD above potted plants in bright sunlight.
Square graphic with cover art detail of figure falling through fiery clouds. Image of EVERY DARK CLOUD cover on top and centered, with arrows spiraling outward to various vibes: “queer af” “climate justice” “race against time” “bioluminescence” “dark sci-fi” “near-future”
Square tile graphic with darkened background of bioluminescent mushrooms along the forest floor. In foreground is the following quote: "The Coalition dissolved eighty years ago. We owe our world to them. We owe our lives."
Dark purple graphic with following white text: 2024 Short Fiction by Marisca Pichette “Ashed & Burning Eye” Flame Tree Fiction Newsletter #61 “All the Better to Taste You” PodCastle #834 “White & Wolf” The Pleasure in Pain “This is How to Die Like AI” Neon Dystopia “Mother Mollusk” Uncharted Magazine “Only the Dead” Extrasensory Overload “Three Circuits of the Monoceros Ring” Clarkesworld #215 “Bootleg Baba’s Beautiful Claws” Laughs in Space “Gravestone House” Too Bad, You Died “Catalogue of the Exofaithful Practices on Exoplanet SSR24” The Deadlands #36 “Hearts and Flowers” Worlds of Possibility, December 2024
Photo of a stack of EVERY DARK CLOUD viewed from above, resting on a dark purple cut velvet background with a string of gold beads and dried flowers bordering the books. Cover art depicts a person standing silhouetted in blue-green light from bioluminescent mushrooms. Above, a minute figure falls through fiery clouds.
Graphic with black background and two columns titled "Favorite Stories of 2024" and "Favorite Poems of 2024." Stories in left column are as follows: "Catalogue of the Exofaithful Practices on Exoplanet SSR24-∞ The Deadlands #36 Three Circuits of the Monoceros Ring Clarkesworld #215 White & Wolf The Pleasure in Pain" Poems in right column are are follows: "In a castle far from every prince F&SF, Summer 2024 We’re all Mad here Orion’s Belt, May 2024 Against cold stone Vastarien Vol. 7.0" Illustration of canid skull and oval mirror frame adorn the bottom of the image in beige.
Photo of left hand holding up suncatcher in front of yellow wall spattered with rainbows. Suncatcher is composed of a long bone crisscrossed with dark violet ribbon suspended from a braided leather and copper chain. Three strings of crystals hang from the bone, interspersed with amethyst beads.
Photo of leatherette journal being held in left hand over potted plants. Stickers on cover include stack of spellbooks, art nouveau posters, skeleton hand balancing songbird, headstone, and octopus demolishing city with plus size woman in foreground.
Graphic with black and white background of darkened multi-storey library. Five book covers are displayed, including: MEETINGS WITH REMARKABLE MANUSCRIPTS by Christopher De Hamel TENDER by Sofia Samatar LOVELY CREATURES by KT Bryski WHEN THE EARTH HAD TWO MOONS by Erik Asphaug A LIFE WITH FOOTNOTES by Rob Wilkins
Graphic of murky mushroom macrophotography with following white text: "2024 Poems by Marisca Pichette Eligible for the Rhysling Award: 40 Short Poems 4 Long Poems Eligible for the Dwarf Stars Award: 3 Poems"
Headshot and text on left reading: "Marisca Pichette / Mother of Creation: The Perfect Website / Designing a simple yet effective page / elegant literature.com / Live training: Dec 14th"
Screenshot from Ellen Datlow’s 2023 list of recommended horror, with highlight on pieces by Marisca Pichette: Pichette, Marisca “All Hallowed Tides Break Upon This Shore,” Shakespeare Unleashed. Pichette, Marisca “Crackle Ball,” (poem) Penumbric August. Pichette, Marisca “Kalanchoe daigremontiana: a family tree,” (poem) Star*Line, 46.4 Fall. Pichette, Marisca “The Flock,” Aseptic and Faintly Sadistic. Pichette, Marisca “The Size of Your Fist,” (poem) Rivers in Your Skin, Sirens in Your Hair. Pichette, Marisca “The Twelve Dying Princesses,” Nightmare December #135. Pichette, Marissa “Spines,” The Old Ways, Volume Two.
Dark graphic with background of faint purple face in wispy clouds. Text on top reads: "2024 Short Fiction by Marisca Pichette" followed by a list: “Ashed & Burning Eye” Flame Tree Fiction Newsletter #61 “All the Better to Taste You” PodCastle #834 “White & Wolf” The Pleasure in Pain “This is How to Die Like AI” Neon Dystopia “Mother Mollusk” Uncharted Magazine “Only the Dead” Extrasensory Overload “Three Circuits of the Monoceros Ring” Clarkesworld #215 “Bootleg Baba’s Beautiful Claws” Laughs in Space “One, Two, We, Our” Tales & Feathers #3 “Gravestone House” Too Bad, You Died “Catalogue of the Exofaithful Practices on Exoplanet SSR24” The Deadlands #36
Graphic on dark background with teal luminescent ground cover. Text reads: "AUTHOR SIGNING: Marisca Pichette, EVERY DARK CLOUD." Smaller text reads: "We are thrilled to announce the signing of Marisca Pichette, with her post-apocalyptic clip-fi novella, EVERY DARK CLOUD. Forthcoming Spring 2025." Graphic includes monochrome headshot of Marisca.
Photo of Marisca holding SLAY AND SLAY AGAIN. Visible: neck down to belt, wearing an oversized white tee with a graphic of a monochrome skeleton sprouting multicolored flowers. Marisca also wears a black resin coffin necklace with a purple flower. Cover art for SLAY AND SLAY AGAIN features a dark magenta background with rainbow zombie arms grasping down from the top towards the title in bold pink text.
Graphic with teal cosmic background and the following header text: "Elgin Award Finalist" on lefthand side, over cover image of RIVERS IN YOUR SKIN, SIRENS IN YOUR HAIR by Marisca Pichette. Text beneath reads "Full-Length Book: Rivers in Your Skin, Sirens in Your Hair." "Rhysling Award Finalists" on righthand side, over three magazine covers from The Dread Machine, Haven Speculative, and Fantasy Magazine. Accompanying text reads "Short Poems: The Goth Girls' Gun Gang // A Prayer for the Surviving" and "Long Poem: As the witch buns" Bottom text: "Voting Deadline: September 15"
Photo of LOVELY CREATURES by KT Bryski resting on a mossy concrete block overgrown by clover and grass. Book is flanked by two animal skulls on the right and a rib bone on the left. Cover art: art nouveau style framed image in teal, orange, and black; humpback whale swimming over river with swan, teapot, and apple scattered along the outside. Title and author centered over the art.
Photo of cleaned skunk skull resting on a mirrored dish with an ornate brass frame. Sunlight from a window above sets the bone aglow with warm yellow light. Skull viewed from 3/4 profile.
Photo of Marisca holding up two periodicals: the Nov/Dec issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, and the Spring 2024 issue of Door is a Jar. She is wearing a white knit cardigan with embroidered strawberries and smiling at the camera. Cover art of F&SF features a bronze airship covered in portholes, beams of light cutting through a blue deep. Cover art of Door is a Jar features a painting of a grey parrot perched on a branch with a lime green background.
Photo of 'The Pleasure in Pain' standing against a maroon fabric background. Cover art is black and dark blue with elegant pink script for the title. The book is standing opposite a framed black and white photo of a woman with her back to the camera, reaching up both hands, which are handcuffed. A small ornate mirror dish rests in front, with a black acrylic coffin charm with a floral motif. Resting in front of the book is a sheep jawbone.
Photo of certificate with red border that reads “Horror Writers Association 2023 Bram Stoker Award Finalist Marisca Pichette: Rivers in Your Skin, Sirens in Your Hair (Android Press)” In front of certificate, the collection rests on silk cloth next to a bookmark with the cover art and a black ceramic corvid skull. Cover art depicts a right hand reaching up towards a crystal stylus flanked by butterflies and botanicals. A beta fish swims above, out of reach.
Graphic displaying large text on left and image of book cover on right, with background of peach-colored clouds. Text reads "Elgin Award Nominee, Full-Length Book." Book on right is "Rivers in Your Skin, Sirens in Your Hair" by Marisca Pichette. Cover art depicts right hand reaching up towards a crystal stylus flanked by butterflies and botanicals. A pale beta fish swims above, suspended in dark ether.
Photo of "Rivers in Your Skin, Sirens in Your Hair" by Marisca Pichette propped up facing the viewer against a stack of copies of the collection. Cover art: hand reaching up towards a crystal stylus flanked by butterflies and botanicals. A pale beta fish swims just out of reach in the dark ether. Also in the photo is a potted ivy, its tendrils curving around to caress the book cover; another houseplant just visible behind the collection; a skunk skull resting on top of the stacked books, viewed in slanted profile.
Screenshot from the Android Press homepage showing four book covers with "Order Now!" buttons under each. From left to right: Bram Stoker Award Nominee: Superior Achievement in Poetry - "Rivers in Your Skin, Sirens in Your Hair" by Marisca Pichette 2023 BSFA Award Finalist: Best Collection - "The SauĂștiverse Anthology" edited by Wole Talabi 2023 BSFA and Nebula Award Finalist: Best YA Fiction - "The Inn at the Amethyst Lantern" by J Dianne Dotson Nebula Award Finalist: Game Writing - "Ninefox Gambit RPG" by Yoon Ha Lee
Photo of a stack of Rivers in Your Skin, Sirens in Your Hair on a vendor table at ICFA 45
Graphic featuring the cover of Rivers in Your Skin, Sirens in Your Hair by Marisca Pichette on a dark purple nebulous background. In glowing text at the top, it reads "Eligible for the Elgin Award." Book's cover art shows a right hand reaching up towards a crystal stylus, flanked by botanicals and butterflies. Above, a white beta fish swims in the ether.
Photo of the final issue of Vastarien: A Literary Journal resting on red fabric with two animal skulls (coyote and rabbit). Cover art: black.
Photo of Enchanted Living: Spring 2024 issue, themed “Book Lovers” on tweed-pattern silk background. Objects arranged around issue are: small tooled leather book, large leather book with tree motif, black ceramic corvid skull, dried yellow rose, miniature versions of Dragonology and blue book, wooden box with antique profile of women in pearls, domed box with brass latch and beaded decoration, and brass brooch of art nouveau woman in profile on a rippling cloud. Cover of issue: white woman with brown loosely curly hair leaning against a tree, paging through a book that on closer inspection is in fact the skirt of her dress, which features swirls and landscape scenes on the bodice.
Graphic with dark monochrome ruined arch background and white text on top. Text reads: "Rhysling Nominees by Marisca Pichette: Short Poem: “A Prayer for the Surviving” Haven Spec #9 “The Goth Girls’ Gun Gang” The Dread Machine Long Poem: “As the witch burns” Fantasy Magazine #87 “Troop No. 80085” The Deadlands #32"
Photo of spring 2024 issue of Door is a Jar, featuring a grey parrot on a green painted background. Issue is resting on sage colored quilt with micro millefleurs pattern. Rainbows from a sun catcher cross the frame, and around the magazine is a string of pearls, a quartz crescent moon, a small jar of tiny seashells, and a green oracle card for seraphinite.
Graphic with black background and text set on purple gothic window that reads "Bram Stoker Award Nominee: Superior Achievement in Poetry." Next to text is cover image of Rivers in Your Skin, Sirens in Your Hair by Marisca Pichette.
Screenshot of 2023 Bram Stoker Awards Final Ballot
Cover of DRAGONSONG by Anne McCaffrey, featuring a red-haired woman in a white tunic and red trousers standing on a rock. Small multicolored dragons swirl around her, against an overcast, orange-hued sky.
Photo of HWA Poetry Showcase X on black watch plaid, situated between a coaster with a circle of skulls on a white glittery background, and a white candle burning in a red heart-shaped tin. Cover art: a crow with glowing eye shown in profile, looking back over its shoulder, perched in front of a clock face with Roman numeral numbers.
Cover art for RIVERS IN YOUR SKIN, SIRENS IN YOUR HAIR, a poetry collection by Marisca Pichette. Art by Yuumei, featuring a right hand reaching up in a field of dark lavender. A stylus/crystal hangs suspended, just out of reach, flanked by butterflies and spidery botanicals. Above, a white beta fish swims in the ether.