Receiving the Janus Prize and Lecturing at Chautauqua

It was a great honor, and a week full of love, receiving the Janus Prize from the Chautauqua Institution this August 2022. Snapshots from the ceremony for “Jean” . My lecture was Jean, Janus and Comic Book Realism. It wove astrophysics, genre-bending in identity and literature, comic book realism in Latinx literature, Puerto Rican and UWS…

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Out soon: WinC Magazine Issues 1-3 in PRINT

Women in Comics Collective International (WinC) is print publishing the 1st 3 issues of their magazine this month. Full-of-heart editorial letters, prose, poetry, comics. I have a comic in #1 with Rafael Romeo Magat (51 Solstice). While we wait… reviews go a long way for a group doing great things: Uplifting women in comics, paying…

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Vote Speculative! Utopia Awards Now Open

New month and it’s a new opportunity to vote for #SpecualtiveFictionforDreamers published by Ohio State University Press/Mad Creek Books ! Vote for your favorite finalists in categories for utopian literature and art published in 2021. 8/1 through 10:00 p.m. PST on August 21, 2022. https://www.android-press.com/2022-utopia-award-nominees Speculative Fiction for Dreamers has been nominated for four awards…

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Graymalkin Lane Podcast with guest Dan Jurgens

I’m back on Graymalkin Lane Podcast, this time with host Chad and Anas Abdulhak, featuring an interview with Dan Jurgens. We smirked at rejected crush stories, enjoyed a ride through X-Men 52 (intro to Polaris), and at one point dissected whether she had agency on actions in this issue, and enjoyed Steranko art. Chad is…

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World Fantasy Award Nomination: Speculative Fiction for Dreamers

It’s another award nomination for #SpeculativeFictionforDreamers A World Fantasy Award ! If you haven’t bought your copy yet: https://chautauquabookstore.com/book/9780814257982Also remember your local library. So happy to be visiting Chautauqua soon to receive the Janus Prize for “Jean” in this anthology.

Graymalkin Lane Podcast: X-Men 47, Featuring Phillip Kennedy Johnson

A wonderful time had on this podcast with host Chat, Seth Martel and Phillip Kennedy Johnson. This X-Men was a riot to review. I’ve spent more time in the East Village this month in this comic and the zine fair than my entire NYC life. While there is much to say about mentalists, Orientalism, dating…

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Announcing Janus Point Press

Above quote by Russell Maret, Private-Press Printer and Type Designer A natural progression of Zoe Health (art meets public health) seems to be: Janus Point Press Welcome my boutique imprint, which aims not just to house selected works of my own as indie comics creators do, but also special print collections of others that support…

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Panel at Miami Dade College 5/20/22

This Friday! The Miami Dade College Student Writers Conference, online and in person. And free! Lots of great books to dive into, and authors and editors to hear and speak with. Including a few of us from Speculative Fiction for Dreamers . Our session is 3:10pm EST. Sign up below, see full schedule. https://express.adobe.com/page/E7XZIWH1TSjxn/

Speculative Fiction for Dreamers a Locus Finalist Best Anthology

Happy to see Speculative Fiction for Dreamers on this list of finalists from Locus Magazine. Congratulations to all. From their website: “The Locus Science Fiction Foundation has announced the top ten finalists in each category of the 2022 Locus Awards. These results are from the February 1 to April 15 voting, done by readers on…

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“Jean” Wins 2022 Chautauqua Janus Prize

Honored to receive this news. I’m the 2022 Chautauqua Janus Prize winner for “Jean”. Read the heartwarming press release here. You can find “Jean” in Speculative Fiction for Dreamers: A Latinx Anthology (Mad Creek Books, 2021)  at your local indie, library, Bookshop, online retailer, or book store. Many thanks to the Chautauqua Institution, Director Sony…

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