Caitlín R. Kiernan, M.Sc.
@caitlinrkiernan
Paleontologist & 2-time World Fantasy Award winning F&SF author. McWane Sci. Center & University of Ala. research assoc. (mosasaurs, turtles, PETM). Humanist. Classical liberal. Irish Appalachian. Math nerd. Anti-fascist. Trans; LGBTQ+ They/them/she/her.
Trump backers, those who haven't gotten bored, are drawn to him for the SPECTACLE. This is the greatest reality TV they've ever seen. Trump's stupidity, cruelty, misogyny, xenophobia - that's what they're after; they don't care if he demolishes DC or the environment. So long as he "owns the libs."
My first mosasaur, which I discovered and collected in the blistering hot summer of 1981, in railroad cut in Demopolis, Ala. It's also the first mosasaur I prepared, in the winter of 82-83. A new species of Plioplatecarpus, from the Demopolis Chalk (middle Campanian).
Struggling to finish my portion of a new plioplatecarpine paper (morphology, mostly) while dealing with a) a knee that may require surgery and b) an illness that the doctors can't quite diagnosis (maybe lupus). & wishing I'd been offered this project when I was 20 years younger.
Sirenia Digest, CRK's ezine of World Fantasy Award-winning weird & horrific fiction! Subscribe to the digest today via Patreon & get the last two issues free! New issue (No. 237) coming in July, a new story PLUS some of my favorite work on The Dreaming! Have a look! www.patreon.com/c/CaitlinRKi...
Coming from Ellen Datlow on July 21st and including my short-story "The Beholder's Gaze"...
Kathryn and I (mostly @annularia.bsky.social) are working on three t-shirt designs based on The Drowning Girl and The Red Tree. We will keep you posted...details TBA...
"Pale Rollers," from Sirenia Digest 232, will appear in Ellen Datlow's The Best Horror on the Year 18! Subscribe to the digest today via Patreon and get the last two issues free! Have a look! Plus, there's a new issue coming in July! www.patreon.com/c/CaitlinRKi...
OUT NOW, Sirenia Digest 236, with a new short story PLUS a free PDF of my Dark Horse Comics five-part series, Alabaster: The Good, the Bad, and the Bird. Please consider visiting the Patreon today and becoming a subscriber! 25 more, we meet our goal! www.patreon.com/c/CaitlinRKi...
In 2015, a truly beautiful Portuguese language edition of The Drowning Girl: A Memoir was published in Brazil and actually did very well, in terms of sales. Fashioned after a diary, I adore this edition.
May '26 marks the 30th anniversary of my being hired to write The Dreaming for DC/Vertigo. Between 1996 and 2001, this was essentially a full-time job, as I became the main writer & produced 43/60 of the book's issues. The Dreaming is all but forgotten, yet it's the job that taught me to be a pro.
Later TODAY, Sirenia Digest 236, w/a new short story PLUS a free PDF of my Dark Horse Comics five-part series, Alabaster: The Good, the Bad, & the Bird. Please consider visiting the Patreon today & becoming a subscriber! Just 25 more subscribers to reach our goal! www.patreon.com/c/CaitlinRKi...
Beautiful. A monument to what humans can do when we are our best selves, those better angels of our nature. Leinden, Netherlands. Museum Boerhaave (Lange Sint Agnietenstraat).
Coming next week, Sirenia Digest 236, with a new short story PLUS a free PDF of my Dark Horse Comics five-part series, Alabaster: The Good, the Bad, and the Bird. Please consider visiting the Patreon today and becoming a subscriber! www.patreon.com/c/CaitlinRKi...
Coming next week, Sirenia Digest 236, with a new short story PLUS a free PDF of my Dark Horse Comics five-part series, Alabaster: The Good, the Bad, and the Bird. Please consider visiting the Patreon today and becoming a subscriber! www.patreon.com/c/CaitlinRKi...
Coming next week, Sirenia Digest 236, with a new short story PLUS a free PDF of my Dark Horse Comics five-part series, Alabaster: The Good, the Bad, and the Bird. Please consider visiting the Patreon today and becoming a subscriber! www.patreon.com/c/CaitlinRKi...
Coming very soon, Sirenia Digest 236, with a new short story PLUS a free PDF of my Dark Horse Comics five-part series, Alabaster: The Good, the Bad, and the Bird. Please consider visiting the Patreon today and becoming a subscriber! www.patreon.com/c/CaitlinRKi...
It's #FossilFriday! @ McWane w/forepaw of giant ground sloth, Megalonyx (named for, well, the huge claws). ~11k, late Pleistocene. I helped collect it fr. NW Alabama cave in '85 (I was 21 years old.) Mounted cast whole skeleton is on display at #McWane. Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megalonyx.
Here is i the first #MosasaurMonday in May! How about a little whimsy? My mosasaur PEZ dispenser!
On this day in 1989, The Cure released a classic, Disintegration. (One of my top ten most beloved albums.)
Less than 3.5 hours left, but not too late to save! Books by me, signed to you (if you wish). That's Blixa, by the way, Cat of Chaos. dreamingsquidsundries.bigcartel.com/products
The podcast is coming, just a little more slowly than expected. But it is coming. Keep watching the skies. My thanks to the indomitable Figbash for continuing to sit in the Fancy Chair and act as my body double. www.patreon.com/c/CaitlinRKi...
I'll be joining Figbash and the Antlers of Anxiety in the fancy chair tonight for the inaugural episode of my podcast. This first episode, which will go live tomorrow, will be FREE TO ALL (after this, only available via my Patreon). I'll be reading from Zoetrope Bizarre...and who knows what else!
#MosasaurMonday! How about this impressive Tylosaurus proriger snout from the basal Mooreville Chalk of Ala.? Collected in 1983 by a crew from the late, great Red Mtn. Museum, it's part of a fairly complete skeleton measuring 40+ft (12m). In the collections of @mcwanescience.bsky.social!