Who I Am
I’m a Nebula, Hugo, Sturgeon, and Locus Award-nominated author of fantasy and science fiction. My stories have been published in Uncanny Magazine, Lightspeed Magazine, Strange Horizons, and many other venues, and reprinted in various Year’s Best anthologies. My debut middle grade novel, Benny Ramírez and the Nearly Departed, is scheduled for publication from Knopf Books for Young Readers in spring of 2024. My novel-length fiction is represented by Cameron McClure of the Donald Maass Literary Agency.
Author Archives: José Iriarte
Some stories I loved in 2020
Posting any kind of round-up of 2020 fills me with a sense of pressure to comment on the hell year that we all just lived through . . . except we’re still kind of living through it. In 2020 I … Continue reading
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Last Day of School Selfie
My what interesting times we have lived through. This morning we had a parade honoring our graduating seniors–they drove through the campus with their families, in their decorated cars, recording on their phones and taking selfies, while we waved, clapped, … Continue reading
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Some great stories I read in 2019
2019 was an exciting and eventful year for me. I was nominated for a Nebula Award, and somehow never got around to mentioning it here—and even gave an acceptance speech, in an alternate universe. I got my first “year’s best” … Continue reading
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Running out of gas
I keep wondering why people have repeatedly mentioned having read my latest and then go on to talk about “Duck Duck God” . . . and then I look at the last update on this journal and I’m like So … Continue reading
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New story out: Duck Duck God!
My newest publication came out this week from Book Smugglers Publishing: a short story called “Duck Duck God.” Check out this amazing cover they made for it! This story goes in several new directions from me. First, it’s much more … Continue reading
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At the intersection of exercise and nerdiness
[CW: exercise, fitness, possibly diet, possibly body image] [Please don’t give me unrequested advice. Talking about exercise, fitness, and body image in a public setting is incredibly vulnerable-making for me, and well-intentioned advice is more likely to prove damaging than … Continue reading
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Embrace the great YMMV
I unfollowed a writer on twitter the other day, in an act of self-preservation. Not a bad guy in any way, but he kept tweeting a sentiment I found artistically damaging. Over the course of several days, he kept tweeting … Continue reading
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Oh hey, Cuba’s in the news again
There’s a certain specific kind of cognitive dissonance I experience every time Cuba’s in the news: when [some] people who share my liberal views lose their ability to do nuance, and start to glorify the Castro regime. (It’s the mirror … Continue reading
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Giving RENT a second chance
I love theatre, and I love musicals. My spouse and I used to perform in our local community theatre troupe, before toxic politics sank it. So gosh, I should really like Rent, right? I like a lot of the songs, … Continue reading
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