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Posts by: Rivers Solomon

Rumpus Exclusive: An Excerpt from River Solomon’s An Unkindness of Ghosts

By Rivers Solomon

September 26th, 2017

But Aster was all there. She felt herself existing.

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Tags: An Unkindness of Ghosts, excerpt, exclusive excerpt, Rivers Solomon, Rumpus Reprint, science fiction

Damned and Damaged Vessels

By Rivers Solomon

November 30th, 2016

I envisioned a new science fiction canon, one in which I was a cyborg, fashioning my body into something new.

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Tags: Aaliyah, autonomy, body, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Children of Men, Dawn of the Dead, diversity, dyke, feminism, Fledgling, gender, gender-nonconforming, Inna Korobkina, Mekhi Phifer, motherhood, Octavia Butler, pregnancy, Queen of the Damned, queer, Racism, reproduction, Rivers Solomon, science fiction, stereotype, the walking dead, trans, Twilight

Rivers Solomon graduated from Stanford University with a degree in comparative studies in race and ethnicity and holds an MFA in fiction writing from the Michener Center for Writers. Though originally from the United States, they currently live in Cambridge, England, with their family. An Unkindness of Ghosts is their debut novel.

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