Mari Ness

Ness has been a panelist and guest at a number of science fiction conventions, including Worldcon in San Antonio in 2013, London in 2014, Dublin in 2019, and Glasgow in 2024. She has also appeared at

OASIS 2019 in Orlando, Florida,{{Cite web |url=https://oasfis.org/oasis/all-guests/ |title=All Guests |date=27 March 2020 |website=OASIS |publisher=Orlando Area Science Fiction Society |access-date=20 April 2020}} and was scheduled to appear at CoNZealand 2020 in Wellington, New Zealand.{{Cite web |url=https://conzealand.nz/programme-events/confirmed-participants |title=Confirmed Participants CoNZealand |date=29 October 2019 |website=CoNZealand |language=en-NZ |access-date=20 April 2020}}

Ness is also noted for her critical reassessment of classic literary works.{{Cite book |last=Bray |first=S. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=is67DQAAQBAJ&pg=PT40 |title=Dimensions of Madeleine L'Engle: New Critical Approaches |publisher=McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers |year=2017 |isbn=978-1-4766-2798-4 |page=40 |access-date=2020-04-21}}{{Cite web |url=https://www.bustle.com/p/10-fairy-tale-princesses-whose-stories-are-way-more-hardcore-than-you-realized-8969754 |title=10 Fairy Tale Princesses Whose Stories Are Way More Hardcore Than You Realized |date=2018-05-17 |website=Bustle |access-date=2020-04-21}}{{Cite web |url=https://www.businessinsider.sg/worst-classic-books-2018-11 |title=12 classic books that don't deserve their praise, sorry |date=2018-11-02 |website=Business Insider Singapore |access-date=2020-04-21}} Among other analysis, she critiques the presence or lack of an appropriate disability narrative in works where characters have obvious disabilities.{{Cite journal |last=Eyler |first=Joshua R. |date=2013-08-09 |title=Disability and Prosthesis in L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/516871 |journal=Children's Literature Association Quarterly |volume=38 |issue=3 |pages=319–334 |doi=10.1353/chq.2013.0042 |issn=1553-1201 |access-date=2020-04-21|url-access=subscription }} Her column on Tor.com, "Disney Read-Watch," which discussed Disney animated films and the classic tales that underlaid them,{{cite web |last1=Ness |first1=Mari |title=Disney Read-Watch |url=https://www.tor.com/tag/disney-read-watch/ |website=Tor.com |accessdate=30 April 2020 |format=Column}} was a finalist for one of Reddit's 2016 "Stabby" Awards, given by the r/Fantasy subreddit for works related to the genre.{{cite web |title=Announcing the 2016 Best of r/Fantasy Stabby Award Winners! |url=https://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comments/5ngd95/announcing_the_2016_best_of_rfantasy_stabby_award/ |website=Reddit |accessdate=30 April 2020}}{{cite web |last1=Glyer |first1=Mike |title=2016 Stabby Award Winners |url=http://file770.com/2016-stabby-award-winners/ |website=File 770 |accessdate=30 April 2020 |date=12 January 2017}}

Her work has appeared in several anthologies, some of which have been reviewed in Publishers Weekly.{{Cite web |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-9573975-8-3 |title=Fae Visions of the Mediterranean |website=Publishers weekly}}{{Cite web |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-60701-353-2 |title=Future Lovecraft |website=publishers weekly}} Her short story, "The Ceremony", published in Fireside Quarterly in 2018, was on Locus{{'}}s recommended reading list in 2018.,{{Cite web |url=https://locusmag.com/2019/02/2018-locus-recommended-reading-list/ |title=2018 Locus Recommended Reading List |date=2019-02-01 |website=Locus Online |access-date=2020-04-21}} as was her short story, "The Ruby of the Summer King," published in Lightspeed.https://locusmag.com/2021/02/2020-locus-recommended-reading-list/ Her other fiction that appeared in Lightspeed was noted favorably by Locus in 2017.{{Cite web |url=https://locusmag.com/2018/03/2017-year-in-review-by-gardner-dozois/ |title=2017 Year-in-Review by Gardner Dozois |date=2018-03-20 |website=Locus Online – The Magazine of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Field |access-date=2020-04-21}}

She lives in central Florida, though she has lived in upstate New York previously. Ness is a wheelchair user due to postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome and vertigo.{{Cite web |url=https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/they-had-no-idea-where-my-wheelchair-was-aer-lingus-customers-slam-airline-amid-complaints-over-lost-luggage-38400113.html |title=They had no idea where my wheelchair was |last=Walsh |first=Aoife |date=2019-08-13 |website=independent |access-date=2020-04-20}}{{Cite web |url=http://file770.com/tag/mari-ness/ |title=Mari Ness – File 770 |date=2019-05-07 |website=File 770 |access-date=2020-04-24}} On occasion her experience with these informs her characters and stories and so too does her interests in technology and mythology and how they can resolve or cause issues.{{Cite web |url=https://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2010/04/exclusive_interview_mari_ness/ |title=EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Mari Ness |date=2010-04-06 |website=SF Signal |access-date=2020-04-21}}{{Cite web |url=http://dergipark.org.tr/en/download/article-file/800833 |title=THE FAIRY TALE AS ONE OF THE MANIFESTATIONS OF POLITICAL DISCOURSE |publisher=IJASOS- International E-Journal of Advances in Social Sciences, Vol. V, Issue 14, August 2019}} She also uses her position to call out events which are insufficiently accessible for people with disabilities.{{Cite web |url=http://file770.com/mari-ness-posts-world-fantasy-report-and-a-new-personal-policy/ |title=Mari Ness Posts World Fantasy Report and a New Personal Policy |date=2015-11-11 |website=File 770 |access-date=2020-04-23}}{{Cite web |url=https://www.dailydot.com/parsec/fandom/world-fantasy-con-white-male-panels/ |title=Sci-fi fans blast world's biggest fantasy convention for lack of diversity |date=28 October 2013 |website=The Daily Dot |access-date=28 April 2020}}

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• "Note Left on a Coffee Table (Short Story, 2020) in dave ring Glitter + Ashes: Queer Tales of a World That Wouldn't Die Neon Hemlock Press.
• "The heart of the flame" (Poetry, 2016) in Vitale, Valeria, and Djibril al-Ayad. Fae Visions of the Mediterranean: An Anthology of Horrors and Wonders of the Sea.Futurefire.net Publishing.{{cite book |last1=Vitale |first1=Valeria |last2=al-Ayad |first2=Djibril |title=Fae visions of the Mediterranean: an anthology of horrors and wonders of the sea |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/950738205 |via=WorldCat |accessdate=28 April 2020 |language=English |date=2016|oclc=950738205 }}
• "Memories and wire." (Short Story, 2014) in Clarke, Neil. Upgraded Stirling, New Jersey: Wyrm Publishing.{{cite book |last1=Clarke |first1=Neil |title=Upgraded |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/886490089 |via=WorldCat |accessdate=28 April 2020 |language=English |date=2014|oclc=886490089 }}
• "And the Hollow Space Inside" (Short Story, 2012) republished in Clarke, Neil, and Sean Wallace, Clarkesworld Year Six (2014). Stirling, New Jersey: Wyrm Publishing.{{cite book |last1=Clarke |first1=Neil |last2=Wallace |first2=Sean |title=Clarkesworld Year Six |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/900199274 |via=WorldCat |accessdate=28 April 2020 |language=English |date=2014|oclc=900199274 }}
• "Do Not Imagine" (Poem, 2012) in Moreno-Garcia, Silvia, and Paula R. Stiles, Future Lovecraft. Gaithersburg, MD: Prime Books.{{cite book |last1=Moreno-Garcia |first1=Silvia |last2=Stiles |first2=Paula R |title=Future Lovecraft |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/788296758 |via=WorldCat |publisher=Prime Books |accessdate=28 April 2020 |language=English |date=2012|oclc=788296758 }}
• "Snowmelt" (Poetry, 2011) republished in Gardner, Lyn C. A., et al., The 2012 Rhysling Anthology: The Best Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Poetry of 2011. (2012) Covina, CA: Science Fiction Poetry Association.{{cite book |last1=Gardner |first1=Lyn C. A |last2=Ness |first2=Mari |title=The 2012 Rhysling anthology: the best science fiction, fantasy, and horror poetry of 2011 |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/798838113 |via=WorldCat |publisher=Science Fiction Poetry Association in cooperation with Hadrosaur Productions |accessdate=28 April 2020 |language=English |date=2012|oclc=798838113 }}
• "Twittering the Stars" (Short Story, 2010) in De Vries, Jetse, and Jason Andrew, Shine: an anthology of near-future, optimistic science fiction. Oxford: Solaris.{{cite book |last1=De Vries |first1=Jetse |last2=Andrew |first2=Jason |title=Shine: an anthology of near-future, optimistic science fiction |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/460061212 |via=WorldCat |publisher=Solaris |accessdate=28 April 2020 |language=English |date=2010|oclc=460061212 }}

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• Through Immortal Shadows Singing (lyric poetry, 2017) West Yorkshire, UK: Papaveria Press
• Resistance and Transformation: On Fairy Tales (essays, 2021) Aqueduct Press

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• Letter to an Overly Ambitious Alien Chef of the Future (2005)
• Kittensplodge and the Awful Correspondence (2006)
• Assistant (2007)
• End of Time (2007)
• The Shadow in the Mirror (2008)
• Wooden Apologies (2009)
• Playing with Spades (2009)
• Rumpled Skin (2009)
• Ravens (2010)
• Sparks (2010)
• Mademoiselle and the Chevalier (2010)
• In the Pits of Isfhan (2011)
• Dreams of Elephants and Ice (2011)
• Sister and Bones (2011)
• Love in the Absence of Mosquitoes (2011)
• Green (2011)
• Trickster (2011)
• Twelve Days of Dragons (2011)
• Copper, Iron, Blood and Love (2012)
• A Different Rain (2012)
• Nameless (2012)
• The Agreement (2012)
• A Cellar of Terrible Things (2012)
• Shattered Amber (2012)
• Labyrinth (2012)
• Safe (2012)
• Marmalette (2013)
• Palatina (2013)
• The Godmother (2013)
• The Princess and Her Tale (2013)
• Stronger Than the Wind, Stronger Than the Sea (2013)
• Seaweed (2013)
• The Gifts: Part One (2013)
• The Gifts: Part Two (2013)
• The Gifts: Part Three (2013)
• An Assault of Color (2013)
• In the Greenwood (2013)
• The Dragon and the Bond (2013)
• Ink (2014)
• Toads (2014)
• Undone (2014)
• Coffin (2014)
• Death and Death Again (2014)
• Beans and Lies (2014)
• The Knot (2015)
• The Fox Bride (2015)
• Inhabiting Your Skin (2015)
• The Dollmaker's Rage (2015)
• Sometimes Heron (2015)
• The Petals (2015)
• Sea Dreams (2015)
• The Forge (2015)
• The Huntsmen (2016)
• Cat Play (2016)
• The Game (2016)
• My Own Damn Heaven (2016)
• Deathlight (2016)
• Mistletoe and Copper, Water and Herbs (2016)
• The Middle Child's Practical Guide to Surviving a Fairy Tale (2016)
• Coffee, Love and Leaves (2016)
• Dragonbone (2016)
• Nine Songs (2016)
• The Cat Signal (2016)
• Souls (2016)
• Hundreds (2016)
• The Lion (2017)
• We Need to Talk About the Unicorn in Your Back Yard (2017)
• The Witch in the Tower (2017)
• Stealing Tales (2017)
• Gingerbread Smoke (2017)
• You Will Never Know What Opens (2017)
• Pipers Piping (2017)
• Purchases (2018)
• Shadows and Bells (2018)
• The Sword (2018)
• Memories of Monsters (2018)
• The Ceremony (2018)
• Mercy (2018)
• Feather Ties (2019)
• The Girl and the House (2019)
• The Wolf (2019)
• Transformation, Afterwards (2019)

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• Waiting (2008)
• Ino (2009)
• Dancing (2010)
• Sleep (2010)
• Quoth the Cultist (2010)
• Grandma and the Puka (2011)
• Nile Song (2011)
• Soul Streets (2011)
• Encantada (2011)
• Raven Singing (2011)
• Silence (2011)
• Petals (2011)
• Frenzy (2011)
• Cold Comfort (2011)
• Do Not Imagine (2011)
• Tongueless (2012)
• Laurels (2012)
• Moondance (2012)
• Sisters (2012)
• Gleaming (2013)
• Walking Home (2013)
• The Loss (2013)
• Feather (2014)
• The Restoration of Youth (2014)
• Bone Song (2014)
• Nausicca's Mother Explains It All (2014)
• The Silver Comb (2014)
• Demands (2014)
• After the Dance (2015)
• The Thirteenth Child (2015)
• After Midnight (2016)
• Ice (2016)
• The Study (2017)
• O Ippos (2017)
• Through Immortal Shadows Singing (2017)
• Hunter (2017)
• Expecting a Dinosaur (2018)

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