Erin K. Wagner is a speculative fiction writer, interested in examining how the human responds to the inhuman. She grew up in southeast Ohio on the border of Appalachia, but now lives in central New York, where she hikes in the Catskills and listens for ghostly games of nine-pins. She holds her Ph.D. in medieval literature and teaches literature and writing in the SUNY system. She splits her time between academic research, investigating how medieval English writers navigated their own religious identities, and creative writing. Her stories have appeared in a variety of publications, from Apex to Perihelion, and her novella The Green and Growing is available with Aqueduct Press. You can visit her website at https://erinkwagner.com/ or follow her on Twitter.
Stories
Blog Posts
- “There is No Friend Like a Sister”: Christina Rossetti
- “[T]o Be Beautiful and Awesome and Butt-Kicking”: G. Willow Wilson
- “Adventures Bright”: Marie de France
- “To Be Men’s Tyrants”: Margaret Cavendish
- A Woman Was Here: An Introduction
- “Electric Ladies”: Janelle Monae
- Ladies’ Tree, Fairies’ Tree: Joan of Arc as Muse
- “No Thing But Ill-Luck”: Marie-Catherine d’Aulnoy
- Board Games and bell hooks: The Women Designing Mansions of Madness (2nd ed.)
- Women Everywhere: The Success of WisCon
- “At home in men’s clothes”: Calamity Jane
- “The Cleverest Woman in England”: L. T. Meade
- Carrying Us Forward: Ursula K. Le Guin
- “Cracks and Fissures”: Emily Wilson’s Translation of the Odyssey
- “Freed from the Curse”: Elizabeth Gaskell
- “Passing Extraordinary”: Beatrix Potter
- Gentleman-Magicians: Reading Susanna Clarke’s Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
- Lost-hope House and Heart-break Farm: Reading Susanna Clarke’s “Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell”
- Like a Person Sleepwalking: Reading Susanna Clarke’s “Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell”
- “One Need Not So Much As Look Upon Another of One’s Fellow Creatures”: Reading Susanna Clarke’s Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
- “Fairy Roads Lead Nowhere At All”: Reading Susanna Clarke’s Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
- The Madhouse Keeper: Reading Susanna Clarke’s Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
- “You Must be Arrogance”: Reading Susanna Clarke’s Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
- “UnChristian and UnEnglish”: Reading Susanna Clarke’s Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
- “I have changed England”: Reading Susanna Clarke’s Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell