Susan Palwick

@spalwick.bsky.social

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Writes SF/F. Weaves. ND. Retired social worker, former healthcare chaplain and English professor. Proud member of the Christian Left. Married with cats. Currently in treatment for aggressive B cell lymphoma. She/her.

Cover and TOC for THE BEST AMERICAN SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY 2025.
Tortie cat sleeping with front paws crossed in front of her.
Medium-haired tortie cat sitting on left foot pedal of an elliptical machine.
A maroon and tan handwoven clasped-weft scarf displayed on a drying rack.
Three cats on a couch: ginger tabby and short-haired tortie sitting down, long-haired tortie jumping onto the back.
Ginger cat with white paws and bib lying in front of a glass deck door. She is bisected by the shadow of the doorframe.
Cat on ledge looking down stairwell.
A tortie cat, with outstretched paw, stalking a watch reflection on a carpet.
A Clover Sakiori loom with a beige and red clasped-weft project.
Cat with mouth closed.
The hind half of a longhaired tortie cat sticking out from under a bedspread.
Alara, a short-haired tortie cat.
A red and orange twill towel on a loom.
Multicolored yarn, used as both warp and weft on a rigid-heddle loom, creates a lovely variegated fabric.
Two cats on a bed, stretching away f on each othee, hind paws touching,
A ginger tabby raising her paw to her head as if in a salute.
A tortie cat with her paw on the forehead of a ginger tabby.
A ginger cat, her pink tongue showing, washing a human hand.
Like the post says, three cats on a bed, a ginger tabby sandwiched between two torties.
Three shelves of air plants, resting on colored glass bottles, in a bathroom window. Air plants need indirect light, so the frosting is ideal.
A dishtowel in red and gold being woven on a loom.
Three cats lounging together on a bed.
Ginger cat lying on a human's arm to pin said human in place.
Tortie cat gazing upwards.
Pendant: oblong piece of fine silver with wood grain design, decorated with a small orange cubic zirconia set into the metal and a piece of pink scolecite stone lashed to the oblong piece with wire.
Ginger cat with white paws and bib, with her right paw placed on the stair riser in front of her.
Two cats, a ginger tabby and a tortie, lie facing each other with their paws intertwined.
Three cats in a row on a bed.
Three cats, a ginger sandwiched between two torties, on the corner of a bed.
A ginger cat with a white bib looking winsomely at the camera.
Medium-haired tortie cat sticking her tongue out.
A loom with the reed partially sleyed.
Lovely medium-haired tortie cat with dark face, light bib, and golden eyes.
Tortie cat looking over her shoulder in alarm.
Three cats on a bed.
A loom in the process of having heddles threaded. The lease sticks -- pieces of white PVC pipe -- keeping the threads in order are visible behind the loom.
Short-haired tortie cat looking up at the camera.
Ginger cat lying next to a tortie, with one of her hind legs flung casually over her friend's back.
A tortie cat lying half on a human lap and half on an older ginger cat.
Hole in night time clouds revealing a crescent moon.
Tortie cat with golden eyes looking out a window.
Three cats, two tortie and one ginger, reclining in a trio on a bed.
Yarn being wound onto the warp beam of a floor loom. Weighted hanks of yarn first pass over the top of a clothes hanging rack, and then through lease sticks and a raddle. Clear as mud, right?
Text: "I'm not making any resolutions. I think it's time for the years to be better, not me."
Three cats on a bed. A ginger and a tortie are curled away from the camera. A second tortie is looking directly at the camera with big golden eyes.
Two cats, one ginger and one tortie, curled in very similar positions on a bed.
An orange cat sitting on a bed while a tortie cat, below her and to the left, stretches her hind legs into the Ginger's chest. A second tortie is visible in the upper right corner of the photo.
Tortie cat with soft, sparkly orange ball next to one paw.
A sleeping tortie cat next to a pile of socks on a rumpled bedspread.
Tortie cat with golden eyes.
Ginger and white cat with green eyes.
Close-up of the face of a tortie cat with golden eyes.
Three cats on a bed: a ginger tabby with a white bib flanked by two torties.
Finches, some in flight, crowding around a feeder.
Three cats on a couch.
Tortie cat sticking her tongue out.
Two cats -- one orange tabby, one tortie -- snuggling adorably.
Two cats, one tortie and one orange tabby, facing each other on a bed with their paws touching.
A stern looking Tortie cat with golden eyes, fierce whiskers, and slightly flattened ears.
Fluffy tortie cat gazing disdainfully at the viewer.