Fiction
Publications:
Promises, Promises -- at Strange Horizons
Forthcoming -- Fourteenth Century Metalwork Techniques for Breaking your own Heart -- at Metaphorosis
Forthcoming -- Dog Days -- in TRUNK: Stories that Took the Long Way Anthology, edited by B. Morris Allen
Forthcoming -- Down the Pipe -- at Pulp Literature
Dill Pickles, Missioner Girls and holddownthefort – at The Daily Tomorrow
The Ghost Singer -- in Final Curtain: Tales Inspired by Phantom of the Opera
An Uncanny Patch and Uncanny Hole: The Final Account from the Records of Ptaten, Imperial Surveyor -- at Beneath Ceaseless Skies
Pale Horsepower — at the Deadlands
Badass Neon Sparkle Powers — at Cast of Wonders
A Gift from the Queen of Faerie to the King of Hell -- at Fantasy Magazine
Concerto for Winds and Resistance – at Beneath Ceaseless Skies
The Fée Knight -- at NewMyths.com
Sphinx Tears -- in Tragedy Queens: Stories inspired by Lana Del Rey and Sylvia Plath
Monster-Killer -- at Daily Science Fiction (Defunct Publication)
Gravitational BATtraction -- on The Manawaker Flash Fiction Podcast
Grandma Geraldine Sees a Dragon – at Cast of Wonders
Shadow of a Knife -- at Monsters out of the Closet (Defunct Publication)
Also available in audio:
An Uncanny Patch and Uncanny Hole: The Final Account from the Records of Ptaten, Imperial Surveyor -- at Beneath Ceaseless Skies
Badass Neon Sparkle Powers — at Cast of Wonders
A Gift from the Queen of Faerie to the King of Hell -- at Fantasy Magazine
Gravitational BATtraction -- on The Manawaker Flash Fiction Podcast
Grandma Geraldine Sees a Dragon – at Cast of Wonders
Cara \kɑɹə\ Masten \mæstɪn\
DiGirolamo \did͡ʒəˈɹɔləmo\
Pronouns: any
Author Bio:
Cara Masten DiGirolamo writes fantastic fiction--from music that can cause earthquakes, to fairie drag balls, and apps that grant wishes. A graduate of the 2015 Odyssey Writing Workshop, Cara also holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia (2022).
I am a queer writer of speculative and young adult fiction, a professor of anything that needs teaching, and a casual artist in unusual media. With a PhD in Linguistics from Cornell University, I am renowned in some circles for DiGirolamo 2012, an article on the phonology of fandom pairing names, and not at all renowned for my expertise in Middle Welsh pronouns. My play, "Weather Report" was produced as part of the 2020 Brave New Play Rites festival, and an excerpt of my pilot screenplay for the queer ballroom-dance sitcom "Sway" was read at the Vancouver Cold Reading Series in March 2021. My short fiction appears in the venues above, and is forthcoming in a few more.
Get in contact: cara.digirolamo@gmail.com