Maria Haskins

@mariahaskins

Swedish-Canadian SFFH writer. Reviewer for LOCUS. Editor @ Ruadán Books & Many Worlds. Work in Best Horror of the Year, Lightspeed, The Deadlands & more. she/her 📚: WOLVES & GIRLS+SIX DREAMS ABOUT THE TRAIN🔗 Rep: Eric Showers.

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Maria Haskins@mariahaskins· 8d

My latest short fiction review is in the August issue of LOCUS, featuring reviews and recommendations of stories from Otherside 6/26; Beneath Ceaseless Skies 6/11/26; Strange Horizons 5/4/26, 5/11/26, 5/18/26; Lightspeed 6/26; and Kaleidotrope Spring ’26. subscribers.locusmag.com/content/buy-...

Maria Haskins@mariahaskins· 8d

You can read part of my short fiction review column from the July issue of LOCUS at Locus Online: featuring stories from Cast of Wonders, Lightspeed, and Escape Pod. locusmag.com/review/escap... You can buy the issue here: subscribers.locusmag.com/content/buy-...

The July 2026 Locus magazine, Issue #786, has interviews with Naomi Kritzer and Temi Oh. The issue includes the 2026 Locus Poll results. Jane Yolen (1939-2026) is remembered with an obituary and appreciations. News covers the 2025 Nebula, Bram Stoker, and Seiun Award winners, as well as Subterranean Press's planned closure, the Commonwealth Prize Regional winners and AI controversy, and much more. Cory Doctorow's column is entitled "Hell Is Other People". Event coverage includes the Locus Awards, StokerCon, the SFWA Nebula Conference, the Bay Area Book Festival, and WisCon 48, as well as international reports on SF in Brazil and SF in Bulgaria.

Cover and interview design by Francesca Myman. Cover altered from art by Forestpath.

Maria Haskins@mariahaskins· 9d

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Rainbow reflected in water with dramatic dark and white clouds.

Maria Haskins@mariahaskins· 10d

As above, so below.

Blue Grey clouds streaked in pink reflected in the water and the shore mirrored. Absolutely transcendent.

Maria Haskins@mariahaskins· 10d

The light.

Landscape in silhouette with that translucent blue tint of northern Swedish summer. Water is still and smooth, sky is blue with clouds lit in dark pink. A gleam of light on the water at the far side of the inlet. Magic.

Maria Haskins@mariahaskins· 11d

My cousin's cat. This kitty survived getting hit by a car and being lost for 5 days in Swedish winter. She decided to find a way home after my cousin dragged an old pike dipped in oil through the snow near their house. Beautiful and tough as nails.

Grey and white cat relaxing royally on a puffy green bed cover.

Maria Haskins@mariahaskins· 23d

The wood worms left me a secret map underneath the bark.

Intricate pattern carved in silvery grey wood of a fallen log stripped of its bark.

Maria Haskins@mariahaskins· 25d

Last night's sky.

Sky in Swedish summer night, still alight. Clouds in shades of blue and purple and pink above the water.

Maria Haskins@mariahaskins· 25d

I love this place. ❤️🇸🇪

Northern Swedish landscape with blue water and a green lawn. Rocks in the water and glimpses of trees under a blue sky.

Northern Swedish landscape with shining blue sky and glittering blue water. A red house with white trim and a rowan tree in the half distance.

Maria Haskins@mariahaskins· 29d

One of my favourite Sam Neill things was the 1998 Merlin miniseries. (Isabella Rossellini as Nimue and the rest of the cast was fire too.) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merlin_...

A youngish Sam Neill from the Merlin miniseries together with Isabella Rossellini as Nimue. Both looking very fantasy and very very good.

Maria Haskins@mariahaskins· Jul 10

He is beauty, he is grace...

Big black dog with a ridiculously long tongue hanging out the side of his mouth looking like a doofus because he's also got a ball in his mouth.

Maria Haskins@mariahaskins· Jul 8

Read part of my short fiction review column for the June issue of LOCUS in Locus Online. I read and recommend stories from Otherside, Flash Fiction Online, and Small Wonders! 👀 locusmag.com/review/other... Get the issue here: subscribers.locusmag.com/content/buy-...

The June 2026 Locus magazine, issue #785, has interviews with Robert Jackson Bennett and Isabel J. Kim, and a spotlight on artist Dante Luiz. The Summer Reads section includes Locus reviewers' recommendations, commentary from Saga editor Nivia Evans and Sheree Renée Thomas, and US and UK forthcoming books titles. News includes the 2026 Locus Awards winners, Daniel Kraus's Pulitzer Prize win, LA Times Book Prize winners, new Transworld imprint 3AM Books, and more. Obituaries remember Tom Clegg, Michael P. Spradlin, and Donald Sidney-Fryer. Reviews include new titles by Amitav Ghosh, Joseph Eckert, Ian McDonald, Christopher Priest & Nina Allan, Rachel Khong, Thomas Elrod, Ra Page & David Sue (eds.), Garth Nix, J.M. Sidorova, Andrea Hairston, Isabel Ibañez, Leslye Penelope, Vonda N. McIntyre, Isabel J. Kim, Jedediah Berry, ‘Pemi Aguda, Munir Hachemi translated by Julia Sanches, M. John Harrison, Lee Young-do translated by Anton Hur, Violet Allen, Andrew Dana Hudson, Kate Milford, Meg Shaffer, Elana K. Arnold, Daisy Pearce, Uketsu translated by Jim Rion, Allen Stroud, Cynthia Gómez, James S.A. Corey, Ann Leckie, Alex Shvartsman, Jeff Noon, Sheree Renée Thomas, and more.

Maria Haskins@mariahaskins· Jul 6

Watching over me this morning. ❤️🐶

Very big black dog with soft silky fur watching over me with a concerned yet loving look on his face.

Maria Haskins@mariahaskins· Jul 4

⭐️ You can read part of my short fiction review column from the June issue of LOCUS in Locus Online - featuring stories from Night Shades, Strange Horizons, Podcastle, and Escape Pod. locusmag.com/review/night... ⭐️ Get the June issue here: subscribers.locusmag.com/content/buy-...

Cover and interview design by Francesca Myman. Cover art by Nelli Valova.

Black background, a pale bird-like skull, and translucent/luminescent fungi and plants in foreground.

The June 2026 Locus magazine, issue #785, has interviews with Robert Jackson Bennett and Isabel J. Kim, and a spotlight on artist Dante Luiz. The Summer Reads section includes Locus reviewers' recommendations, commentary from Saga editor Nivia Evans and Sheree Renée Thomas, and US and UK forthcoming books titles. News includes the 2026 Locus Awards winners, Daniel Kraus's Pulitzer Prize win, LA Times Book Prize winners, new Transworld imprint 3AM Books, and more.

Maria Haskins@mariahaskins· Jul 1

Our latest essay at Thoughts From the Writer's Desk is "Making Magic Chai", a powerful essay by Brook Bhagat on grief, acceptance, writing, and how to make it through the darkness. (Content warning for both pet and parental death.) ruadanbooks.com/making-magic...

Maria Haskins@mariahaskins· Jul 1

My short fiction review column in the July issue of LOCUS features stories from Fiyah, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Small Wonders, Samovar, GigaNotoSaurus, Diabolical Plots, Escape Pod, Cast of Wonders, and Lightspeed. locusmag.com/2026/07/issu...

Cover in shades of pink and purple with stylized houses on hills in background. Cover and interview design by Francesca Myman. Cover altered from art by Forestpath.

The July 2026 Locus magazine, issue #786, has interviews with Naomi Kritzer and Temi Oh. The issue includes the 2026 Locus Poll results. Jane Yolen (1939-2026) is remembered with an obituary and appreciations. News covers the 2025 Nebula, Bram Stoker, and Seiun Award winners, as well as Subterranean Press’s planned closure, the Commonwealth Prize Regional winners and AI controversy, and much more. Cory Doctorow’s column is entitled “Hell Is Other People”. Event coverage includes the Locus Awards, StokerCon, the SFWA Nebula Conference, the Bay Area Book Festival, and WisCon 48, as well as international reports on SF in Brazil and SF in Bulgaria.

Maria Haskins@mariahaskins· Jun 26

I am so excited to share this cover reveal for INFECTION POINTS - A WINTER CENSUS OF URBAN PREDATORS by Elena Pavlova. It's a new mytho-ecological twist on vampires, and it's also the first novella I've worked on as an editor at Ruadán Books! ruadanbooks.com/product/infe...

Infection Points
Urban predators hibernate between November and March. At least, they used to.

A mytho-ecologist out of Sofia University, recruited into Urban Predators Without Borders, never imagined being one of the only living inhabitants in Block 10—observing a Bulgarian nest while living in a rundown apartment, tranquilizer gun loaded with silver nitrate by his bed. With a species-collapsing outbreak spreading from nest to nest, any variation in local vampires’ habits is extremely bad news.

Science and politics collide as the symbiotic relationship between predator and prey is forever altered. Between a deadly fungus and a system set on extermination, one burning question emerges. Is this infection just biological—or is it institutional?

In this thrilling novella that’s both outbreak and survival horror, award-winning Bulgarian author Elena Pavlova reimagines humanity’s relationship with vampires, for fans of Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach series and The Strain.

Maria Haskins@mariahaskins· Jun 26

You can read part of my short fiction review column from the May issue of LOCUS in Locus Online, featuring stories from Baffling, Strange Horizons, and Lightspeed! locusmag.com/review/baffl... Get the May issue here: subscribers.locusmag.com/content/buy-...

The May 2026 Locus magazine, issue #784, has interviews with Emily Tesh and Sunyi Dean, and a spotlight on Locus Awards Featured Local Artist Alyssa Winans. News includes the 2026 Hugo Awards Ballot, M.R. Carey's Philip K. Dick Award win, Christopher Caldwell's Crawford Award win, Hachette's choice to pull Shy Girl over suspected AI use, David Langford's Solstice Award win, BSFA winners, artist Gregory Manchess's Artemis patch design, and more. Convention reports cover the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, the Writers & Illustrators of the Future awards, Norwescon 48, and the Williamson Lectureship. Cory Doctorow's column is entitled "The Age of Vapor".

Cover and interview design by Francesca Myman. Cover altered from art by Anastasia Osipova.

Maria Haskins@mariahaskins· Jun 17

That one tree at the off-leash dog park...

Bedraggled olaf stuffy hanging upside down in a tree.

Bedraggled teddy bear hanging ominously from a tree branch.

Maria Haskins@mariahaskins· Jun 16

Here he is, all puffed up and singing, a few months ago. ❤️

Maria Haskins@mariahaskins· Jun 10

You can read part of my short fiction review column from the May issue of Locus Magazine in Locus Online, featuring stories from Diabolical Plots, Bourbon Penn, and Escape Pod. locusmag.com/review/diabo...

Cover and interview design by Francesca Myman. Cover altered from art by Anastasia Osipova. Scarlet background with golden text and a golden bird, phoenix-like, rising.

The May 2026 Locus magazine, issue #784, has interviews with Emily Tesh and Sunyi Dean, and a spotlight on Locus Awards Featured Local Artist Alyssa Winans. News includes the 2026 Hugo Awards Ballot, M.R. Carey's Philip K. Dick Award win, Christopher Caldwell's Crawford Award win, Hachette's choice to pull Shy Girl over suspected AI use, David Langford's Solstice Award win, BSFA winners, artist Gregory Manchess's Artemis patch design, and more. Convention reports cover the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, the Writers & Illustrators of the Future awards, Norwescon 48, and the Williamson Lectureship. Cory Doctorow's column is entitled "The Age of Vapor".

Maria Haskins@mariahaskins· Jun 6

Oooooohhhh, too many to choose from but definitely this one:

Tracy Chapman's self-titled debut album from 1988. Sepia tones and black, her face and she's looking down and to the right.

Maria Haskins@mariahaskins· Jun 4

I love my rewards from the Locus 2026 Indiegogo campaign! 😍

Maria Haskins@mariahaskins· Jun 4

Even when she’s fading, she’s beautiful.

Delicately pink rose, soft and fluffy, petals starting to fade and yellow.

Maria Haskins@mariahaskins· Jun 1

My latest short fiction review column is in the June issue of LOCUS MAGAZINE, available now: locusmag.com/2026/06/issu...

Cover art with glowing translucent mushrooms and plants, and a stylized bird skull on a black background. The June 2026 Locus magazine, issue #785, has interviews with Robert Jackson Bennett and Isabel J. Kim, and a spotlight on artist Dante Luiz. The Summer Reads section includes Locus reviewers’ recommendations, commentary from Saga editor Nivia Evans and Sheree Renée Thomas, and US and UK forthcoming books titles. News includes the 2026 Locus Awards winners, Daniel Kraus’s Pulitzer Prize win, LA Times Book Prize winners, new Transworld imprint 3AM Books, and more. Cover and interview design by Francesca Myman. Cover art by Nelli Valova.

Maria Haskins@mariahaskins· May 30

Received some excellent book mail! 😍

Cover of Ada Hoffman's novel IGNORE ALL PREVIOUS INSTRUCTIONS with a stylized spaceship flying away crom a Jupiter like planet.

Maria Haskins@mariahaskins· May 29

The Flame Tree antho WERE WOLF SHORT STORIES (ed. Gillian Whitaker, Catherine Taylor & Nick Wells) has been nominated for a Shirley Jackson Award! This antho contains my short story "Margaery the Wolf" so I'm claiming a bit of the honour this morning! 🐺 www.shirleyjacksonawards.org/2026/05/28/n...

Maria Haskins@mariahaskins· May 25

pick a Bond villain from the photos you have in your phone

green cheek conure in an imposing stance, shot from below, definitely a criminal mastermind.

Maria Haskins@mariahaskins· May 21

$Photo of pelican with very large mouth and tumblr post from maverick-ornitography "pelcan Mouth perfec t size for put baby in to n\ap! inside very Soft and Comfort baby sleep soundly put baby in Pelican Mouth. Put Baby In Pelican Mouth. no problems ever in peliccan mouth because good Shape and Support for baby neck weak of big baby head. Apelican Mouth yes a place for a baby put baby in pelican mouth can trust pelican for giveing good love to baby. friend pelican"$

Maria Haskins@mariahaskins· May 19

My recent reviews of LIGHTSPEED and FLASH FICTION ONLINE are now in Locus Online: locusmag.com/review/light... You can read my full short fiction review column in the April issue of LOCUS: subscribers.locusmag.com/content/buy-...