Marisca Pichette (she/they)

@marisca

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Marisca Pichette (she/they)@marisca· May 2

DEFILER (@shackleboundbooks.bsky.social) is up for preorder! My blood-tree midwife folk horror, "Spines," is one of just five dark fantasy stories collected in this anthology. Check it out 🩸 www.amazon.com/dp/B0GX2QKPZ6

Marisca Pichette (she/they)@marisca· Apr 4

A very happy 3 year book birthday to RIVERS IN YOUR SKIN, SIRENS IN YOUR HAIR! 🌊containing 50 poems 🌊 20 of those poems are original to the collection 🌊published 3 years ago today 🌊a finalist for 2 awards 🌊my first standalone book Available in print and digital @press-android.bsky.social 🫧

Photo of Rivers in Your Skin, Sirens in Your Hair on cross stitch botanical patten textile background. To the right of book are three slices of dried citrus. To the left of book is a citrine crystal and a bookmark with the cover art. Cover are depicts a right hand reaching up towards a crystal stylus on a dark background, circled by flower petals while a white betta fish and butterflies flutter just above. A digital banner at the top of the photo reads “Turning three!”

Marisca Pichette (she/they)@marisca· Apr 3

New Patreon tier added: FEED THE BEAST 🐈‍⬛ www.patreon.com/15797433/join

Photo of Bombur loafing under the coffee table. He is viewed from the front and gazes slightly to the side, looking approximately like a pile of black floof with green eyes.

Marisca Pichette (she/they)@marisca· Apr 2

Another cover reveal for you, this time from @incisionpress.bsky.social: MONSTERF#CK, coming April 30 🦑 Including my anarchical poem, "american spirit" ⛓️ Preorder here: incisionpress.com/product/mons...

Marisca Pichette (she/they)@marisca· Mar 31

Full cover appreciation:

Screenshot of THE ELEMENTS OF DARK ACADEMIA up for preorder at Penguin Books UK. Cover art: dark background with Dutch florals, text overlay “The Elements Of” in light serif along top and “DARK / ACAD / EMIA” in bold chartreuse across cover.

Marisca Pichette (she/they)@marisca· Mar 22

📚 ICFA book haul 📚 featuring works by @johnchu.bsky.social @mollytanzer.bsky.social @seraph76.bsky.social @nicolaz.bsky.social @izzyxen.bsky.social

Photo of six books spine up on a sheet. Left to right: THE SUBTLE ART OF FOLDING SPACE, CREATURES OF WANT AND RUIN, AND SIDE BY SIDE THEY WANDER, CALL AND RESPONSE, SPEAR, and THIS NEXT SONG IS CALLED PUNK ROCK VALHALLA.

Marisca Pichette (she/they)@marisca· Mar 21

As of yesterday, EVERY DARK CLOUD has been in the world for one whole year!!! Bringing you luminous mushrooms, numinous apocalypse, and ruinous relations lit by darkness🩶 Out everywhere from @ghostorchidpress.com

Photo of right hand holding up EVERY DARK CLOUD in front of a bookcase stacked with books and carved mushrooms and dried flowers. Cover art: figure standing in center of teal and black mushrooms with a yellow and white bank of clouds above, through which a minute silhouette is falling.

Marisca Pichette (she/they)@marisca· Feb 4

"𝘚𝘩𝘯𝘤𝘩, 𝘴𝘩𝘯𝘤𝘩, 𝘴𝘩𝘯𝘤𝘩. That’s the song the dermestid makes, tidying up corpses on the banks of spring streams choked with last year’s leaves. 𝘚𝘩𝘯𝘤𝘩, 𝘴𝘩𝘯𝘤𝘩, 𝘴𝘩𝘯𝘤𝘩." Read @nightmare-magazine.com 161 for "Twelve Facts About the Dermestid Beetle" 🪳 www.nightmare-magazine.com/issues/feb-2...

Marisca Pichette (she/they)@marisca· Jan 4

Thrilled to find 2 of my beloved pieces on @datlow.bsky.social’s BH 17 recommendations! 🖤“Against cold stone” (poem, VASTARIEN) 🖤“White & Wolf” (flash, @dragonsroost.bsky.social anthology THE PLEASURE IN PAIN) ellendatlow.com/2026/01/03/f...

Marisca Pichette (she/they)@marisca· Jan 1

Peep my eligible poems below 🌙

Marisca Pichette (she/they)@marisca· Nov 21

Behold my 2025 poetry round up!! I published 24 poems this year, eligible for the Nebula, Hugo, Rhysling, & Elgin Awards 💫 Huge thanks to @penumbricmag.bsky.social @sfpoetry.bsky.social @asimovssfmag.bsky.social @smallwondersmag.com @kaleidotrope.bsky.social @justkeepupmagazine.bsky.social ⬇️

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2025 Poems by Marisca Pichette
star-bright
SpecPoVerse #1
Lagomorpha
Penumbric Speculative Fiction Magazine, April 2025
When the Shadows Showed All
Kaleidotrope, Spring 2025
and holes in the roof to welcome rain
Star*Line 48.2
geomancy
Star*Line 48.2
All the space we have left
Asimov's, March/April 2025 Issue
alt/main
Dangerous to Go Alone 2
Last sanctuary
Small Wonders #19
Where does the flame go/when we blow the candle out?
Eye to the Telescope #55
Between the Waters of Phlegethon and Molloy
Kaleidotrope, Winter 2025
snapshots viewed through the stasis pod window
Just Keep Up
fritillary frigate
Radon Journal #11

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2025 Poems by Marisca Pichette
Umbrella Cloud
Star*Line 48.4
elegy to a meadow
This Exquisite Topology
The Fin Stitch
This Exquisite Topology
Auragami
This Exquisite Topology
What the Unicorn's Horn Feels
Our Dearest Devotions
threnody, adrift
F(r)iction #24: The Oceans Issue
triboluminescence: a first-hand account
F(r)iction #24: The Oceans Issue
two hundred miles from Long Beach
F(r)iction #24: The Oceans Issue
chaos theory
Merganser Magazine #6
Let the net grow far and deep
Penumbric Speculative Fiction Magazine, Oct 2025
Medusa Circuit
Eye to the Telescope #58: Cyberpunk
coral on mars
New Myths, Winter 2025 Issue

Marisca Pichette (she/they)@marisca· Nov 18

Awards Eligibility Post: I published a novella, 12 stories, & 5 flash in 2025! Huge thanks to all the publishers, editors, readers, & reviewers who spent their time with my writing this year. 🖤🎈🦇

Graphic displaying cover for EVERY DARK CLOUD, 2025 novella by Marisca Pichette from Ghost Orchid Press.

Graphic listing 2025 stories by Marisca Pichette published in the following magazines:
One More Song
Goblins and Galaxies #0
Upon a Vast, Velvet Veil
Fusion Fragment #25
In Her Tower of Scales
Worlds of Possibility, June 2025
The House of Us
DreamForge Magazine #16
Naked They Cling
Cosmic Horror Monthly #58
The Last Harvest
Phano #2

Graphic listing 2025 stories by Marisca Pichette published in the following anthologies:
Where Walls Once Rose
Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology
Soft Fire
BOREAL: An Anthology of Taiga Horror
The Watercolor Room
The Midnight Labyrinth
How Not to Swallow a Dragon
Behind the Revovling Door
Nature Morte
Hiding Under the Leaves
Appleseed
Spirit of the Wolf

Graphic listing the 2025 flash pieces published by Marisca Pichette:
Nine Acre Corner
Anomaly
Press Release from a Utopia
on the Way Down
Simultaneous Times #84
This is Not a Fiction
Full House Literary, Spring 2025
One, Two, We, Our
Tales & Feathers, Vol. 3
What the Boys Lost
MYRIAD Digital Zines: Nocturnal

Marisca Pichette (she/they)@marisca· Sep 25

Happy 6 month book birthday to EVERY DARK CLOUD!!! 🍄☁️🖤 Hard to believe this novella has been in the world for half a year. Thank you to everyone who’s read, reviewed, gifted, and listened to these words. Keep it up ⛅️ @ghostorchidpress.com

Photo of EVERY DARK CLOUD on a Victorian mortician’s table flanked by plants and bones.

Marisca Pichette (she/they)@marisca· Aug 22

I read 2 excellent collections during @seattlein2025.org: WEDDING OF THE FOXES by Katherine Larson THE MAN IN THE BANANA TREES by @mlensheffer.bsky.social

Photo of two paperback books on orange ottoman: “Wedding of the Foxes” by Katherine Larson on the left and “The Man in the Banana Trees” by Marguerite Sheffer on the right.

Marisca Pichette (she/they)@marisca· Jul 2

Voting is now open for the Rhysling and Dwarf Stars Awards @sfpoetry.bsky.social! I’ve got three finalists this year ✨ @mosspuppymag.bsky.social

Graphic on cosmic blue and purple background with text “Rhysling Award Finalist: Short Poem / Make me a sandwich / Star*Line 47.2 / Voting Deadline: September 15”

Graphic on cosmic blue and purple background with text “Dwarf Stars Award Finalists / binary system / Star*Line 47.2 / death is a less terrible thing / Moss Puppy Mag #7 / Voting Deadline: September 1”

Marisca Pichette (she/they)@marisca· May 30

Have you checked out @sfwa.bsky.social's silent auction yet? You can nab one-of-a-kind earrings (made by me) and a signed copy of EVERY DARK CLOUD 🌙

Marisca Pichette (she/they)@marisca· May 8

I can finally shout about this!!! I am thrilled, honored, & profoundly PUMPED to share that I am now represented by @laurenbajek.bsky.social at @lizadawsonassoc.bsky.social! Stay tuned for the magic, the mystery, & the manuscripts to come ☕️🔮🕯️

Marisca Pichette (she/they)@marisca· May 4

Highlights from yesterday’s @salemhorrorfest.bsky.social with @coreyfarrenkopf.bsky.social @beantownhorrors.bsky.social @tananarivedue.bsky.social @krissiekwrites.bsky.social & @mattmbartlett.bsky.social 👻 🖤 📚

Marisca Pichette (she/they)@marisca· Apr 25

Spotted in the wild 💫 @sillysyntax.bsky.social

Marisca Pichette (she/they)@marisca· Apr 25

Happy 1 month birthday to EVERY DARK CLOUD! 🍄💚 @ghostorchidpress.com 🖤

Marisca Pichette (she/they)@marisca· Apr 18

It’s my birthday today! The best gift you can give any author is to read their work so I guess this is a shameless self promo post 🌸

Photo of Rivers in Your Skin, Sirens in Your Hair and Every Dark Cloud on a brightly colored striped silk scarf.

Marisca Pichette (she/they)@marisca· Apr 4

Happy 2yr book birthday to RIVERS IN YOUR SKIN, SIRENS IN YOUR HAIR 🌼🐚🌼

Photo of poetry collection, Rivers in Your Skin, Sirens in Your Hair resting amount bright green grass and sunny field daisies.

Marisca Pichette (she/they)@marisca· Apr 4

somewhat delayed: March 2025 sub stats! no poems this month, but 1 micro--and, more importantly--my debut novella was published!! EVERY DARK CLOUD is now available wherever books breathe 📖 books2read.com/u/4D5Xak

Marisca Pichette (she/they)@marisca· Mar 25

🔥OUT NOW 🔥 A very happy book birthday to EVERY DARK CLOUD, an eco-horror novella about the beauty unearthed in the wake of disaster. Gorgeous cover by @carlydraws.bsky.social. Get it now from @ghostorchidpress.com & anywhere books are sold 🖤

Photo of EVERY DARK CLOUD standing on scarf with design featuring Van Gogh’s iris painting.

Marisca Pichette (she/they)@marisca· Mar 11

⛅two weeks⛅

Photo of left hand holding three copies of EVERY DARK CLOUD above potted plants in bright sunlight.

Marisca Pichette (she/they)@marisca· Mar 5

EVERY DARK CLOUD is just 20 days away!! Why wait? Preorders are OPEN @ghostorchidpress.com 🔥 ghostorchidpress.square.site/product/ever...

Square graphic with cover art detail of figure falling through fiery clouds. Image of EVERY DARK CLOUD cover on top and centered, with arrows spiraling outward to various vibes: “queer af” “climate justice” “race against time” “bioluminescence” “dark sci-fi” “near-future”

Marisca Pichette (she/they)@marisca· Feb 25

EVERY DARK CLOUD plummets through the atmosphere in exactly 1 month!!! Here are some excerpts to stoke the fires of anticipation 🔥 Preorder now from @ghostorchidpress.com ghostorchidpress.square.site/product/ever...

Square tile graphic with darkened background of bioluminescent mushrooms along the forest floor. In foreground is the following quote: "The Coalition dissolved eighty years ago. We owe our world to them. We owe our lives."

Square tile graphic with darkened background of bioluminescent mushrooms along the forest floor. In foreground is the following quote: "We look up, blinded by the present and the future. Only when we blink can we see a brief image of the past--a flicker of darkness hiding on the other side of sight."

Square tile graphic with darkened background of bioluminescent mushrooms along the forest floor. In foreground is the following quote: "My imagination, so wonderful for designing beautiful buildings, betrays me by painting an all-too-realistic picture of what's to come."

Square tile graphic with darkened background of bioluminescent mushrooms along the forest floor. In foreground is the following quote: "Stories can't fix this. Words won't put my life back to where it was twelve hours ago."

Marisca Pichette (she/they)@marisca· Feb 11

Hugo nominations are open until March 14! Below are my awards-eligible stories, published in @podcastle.org @clarkesworldmagazine.com @omgjulia.bsky.social @thedeadlands.com @angrygablepress.bsky.social @unchartedmag.bsky.social @dragonsroost.bsky.social & more

Marisca Pichette (she/they)@marisca· Feb 9

Looking for a silver lining? EVERY DARK CLOUD is here ☁️ Publishing March 25, 2025 🔥 ghostorchidpress.square.site/product/ever...

Photo of a stack of EVERY DARK CLOUD viewed from above, resting on a dark purple cut velvet background with a string of gold beads and dried flowers bordering the books. Cover art depicts a person standing silhouetted in blue-green light from bioluminescent mushrooms. Above, a minute figure falls through fiery clouds.

Photo of EVERY DARK CLOUD open to dedication page, which reads “To darkness and all it reveals.”

Photo of EVERY DARK CLOUD open to the first page. Opening lines “We all know the history. How grass used to be green, clouds were once white, nights broken by hours of day.”

Marisca Pichette (she/they)@marisca· Jan 13

In 2024, I published 10 stories & 45 poems & I’m here to play favorites🔮 Stories: "Catalogue of the Exofaithful Practices on Exoplanet SSR24" in @thedeadlands.com "Three Circuits of the Monoceros Ring" in @clarkesworldmagazine.com "White & Wolf" in TPIP @dragonsroost.bsky.social Poems ⬇️⬇️⬇️