Persephone’s Flowers

Sometimes our eyes open up to the myth that make up our lives, and the seasons. From bucolic seaside hills, fireside and on the waterfront of an old tannery: sit down for storytelling from the book that bends genre, as well as spacetime. Journey through stories that question: what happens when we cross the line?…

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Walking Around

Walking around. Inhabiting Pablo Neruda and Menis Koumandareas Enjoy the live read I did on Instagram as I become anew in southern Crete during Persephone’s season of Spring. I read excerpts of their work, and then an excerpt from Event Horizon, the story “Event Horizon”, based on one of my visible to me only novels…

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Human Authored

Event Horizon got its Human Authored stamp from the Authors Guild, because all stories are written by a human. And all art was commissioned or are reprints by human artists. Welcome the new organic sticker for books (no longer just for eggs).

Find Jean at El Museo del Barrio Gift Shop

Happy to bring Latinx speculative fiction and sci-fi works to El Museo del Barrio in NYC, starting with Speculative Fiction for Dreamers: A Latinx Anthology featuring my award-winning “Jean”. If you are on the East side or want a power walk to the East side, do hop over to 104th Street and 5th Avenue and grab a…

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A remarkable collection…

Another glowing review for Event Horizon… “Much like the title, reading this collection is a breaking point into the un/known. Is it a black hole? A supernova? A solar flare? This is a remarkable collection of bright visionary talent. When you started reading, it was the past, and when you finish reading this collection, you will be…

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Now Available: Not Your Papi’s Utopia

Art remains a part of the human soul. Now available, the much needed: Not Your Papi’s Utopia: Latinx Visions of Radical Hope, with MouthFeel Press. I can’t wait to get my copy to dig into the stories here at a time when we need more visions of a better world. Find my story “The Event…

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Event Horizon Hardcovers Arrive

At long last, Event Horizon in print is here! All three covers look gorgeous in their own three moods: female heart, comic sci-fi, dripping “GoodStrange” graffiti canvas work. Here’s a look at the unboxing. Here’s a celebration of each cover in video form. It celebrates themes (black holes, human desire), subverting the idea that only…

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Community Copies Available: Zine100

Extending a humble resource to artists or community groups affected by the fires in LA. I have community copies available of the zine I Kickstarted a few years ago in collab with I LOVE MY HOOD and summary postcards by artist Patrick Lugo which offers guidance on being smart when accepting grants from outside organizations,…

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Some 2025

Some publications out this year, along with others available. More to come.

Publishers Weekly booklife Indie Spotlight

Event Horizon gets a spotlight in Publishers Weekly’s booklife December 2024 Indie Spotlight, books that “feature art and other visually compelling books, as well as uplifting and inspirational works.”

Like what you see? Nominate Us! Event Horizon

End of year catwalk due, as I dropped a book Dec 2024 that has a plethora of artists and stories to be considered for award eligibility, fine readers and judges. Don’t bother buckling up because seat belts don’t work when you cross the Event Horizon. Prose. Comics. Original Canvas work. Photography. Science Fiction, Literary Fiction,…

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Happy Publication Day Event Horizon

It wasn’t until reading the Wikipedia page for the movie, Never on Sunday, did I realize two modern great works of Greek literature and cinema tackle this theme of clash of intellectualism and zest for life between characters: this movie, and Zorba the Greek. If Zorba showed bookworm writer how to live a little by…

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Event Horizon Biblet

One week away from our publication date. Biblet, anyone? Here’s a fun way to learn more about the book in one place. Flip through some pages and read the full foreword by Dr. Frederick Luis Aldama. Get a sense of the original portraits. Dive into a full sequential art story. And check out that prose,…

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Packing The Funeral Singer

I love packing The Funeral Singer. It’s a ceremony. It’s an experience of touch (textured silk), sight (pearl button, feather patterns on lapis lazuli clutch with gold threads), and smell (frankincense and myrrh oil) for the reader. It’s sound: music experienced through words (and a curated outside arts list). It’s a world packed into short…

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Printing Update: F and Gs (Proofs) of Event Horizon

Just arrived Event Horizon‘s F&Gs. If you are new to what these are, these are the “Folded & Gathered”, the books in their printed but unbound form. This is a picture of their folded signatures and covers (not affixed to their hardcovers yet). They just need their binding (corset as I think of it) to get…

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Archives of Intellect, Tools Forward

Here are some books I pulled out to display in our public school library for kids to process and empower themselves in fortitude in how to live in a world of fading democracy and hate. To my own kids I say learn about the machine that is being dismantled and how, and never let go…

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Review Count: Event Horizon

Almost month away from our official publication date, a recap of some of the stellar reviews for Event Horizon: Stories of No Turning Back. “Compelling scientific and emotional explorations that raise the question: What awaits us when we cross the line?… Pitsirilos has assembled an eclectic roster of creators from many different mediums, resulting in…

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Readers Digest Recommends

Nice to see on this new list by Reader’s Digest “36 Must-Read Books by Contemporary Hispanic Authors” published this month Speculative Fiction for Dreamers. My story “Jean” is in it highlighting the diasporic Puerto Rican experience here a result of Operation Bootstrap on the island. Jean won the 2022 Chautauqua Janus Prize–currently this isn’t listed…

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Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes…

It’s that time when I get inquiries for corporate and professional holiday gifting of my artists’ book, The Funeral Singer. Last year, a client let me know how his clients kept calling and leaving voicemails at how moved they were to receive such a special, personalized gift. Sometimes a can of nuts with your company…

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Map Making & Family on PBS Kids Alma’s Way

Super excited to see the PBS Kids segment we recorded for the adorable show, Alma’s Way has aired. In this 8 minute clip, Mapping Memories, find me with my mom’s hat on (you’ll hear my volunteer parent librarian fill-in Mrs. Peanut Butter voice here, too!) talking about what Central Park means to us, the fun…

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Not Your Papi’s Utopia

New publication out in December. Find Event Horizon‘s “The Event Don Juan of Mycelia” in Not Your Papi’s Utopia: Latinx Visions of Radical Hope publishing with Mouthfeel Press, ending the trilogy of Latinx archive speculative fiction for this editorial team. Mouthfeel Press “is a Latinx, woman-owned press, created in the spirit of entrepreneurship, a love…

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Bodega Dreams Author Ernesto Quiñonez weighs in on Event Horizon

It’s a warm feeling to have an author, whose works are beloved to you, read your own work, show absolute enthusiasm on your book’s concept and method in publishing, and then to hear the joy he took in reading it. Read Bodega Dreams author Ernesto Quiñonez’s reaction to Event Horizon, a blurb preceded by “…this…

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How to be a Kickstarter Superstar!

Have a Kickstarter going on? If you’re shy telling backers how they can be superstar supporters: here, I tell them for you! Not shy? A free tool for one of your backer updates and precampaign marketing on how to be a backer that really counts.

Preorders Available

Event Horizon: Stories of No Turning Back had a stellar Kickstarter launch. If you missed it, now’s the time to preorder your copies of a book that bends genre, not to mention spacetime. You’ll find all three cover variants of the book (Karen S. Darboe, Armando Ramirez, BlusterOne, minus the Kickstarter exclusive digital variants), and…

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A Big Thank You

The official thank you is in the book. But the Kickstarter thank you? This is it. I want to really thank every one of you that backed Event Horizon and tolerated a month of black hole metaphors on your timeline because you follow me and/or Janus Point Press, especially during turbulent times in the world. I…

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Ending in hours… Event Horizon

Time. Getting. So. Slow. For. An. Observer. Of. This. Campaign. Don’t be an observer, then. Join our backer crew with a project pledge, as there’s only a future ahead when you cross into this book, my debut short story collection. Only hours left to support our Kickstarter campaign to publish this book, we end Friday…

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Two Geeks Talking: Talking Brains, Visual Steam of Event Horizon

Really excited that my recent interview with Kurt Sasso of Two Geeks Talking and Chris Allo of Magnus Arts is released! In this interview, Kurt digs into the layers of the stories of Event Horizon as well as the intricacies of working with an agency of illustrators, Magnus Arts, led by Chris Allo. This was…

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Assembling Event Horizon

Sharing my recent presentation with Kids Comics Unite, my interview with Patrick Lugo: “When the project you’re committing to needs pros. In our informal “Ask Me Anything” Author/Self-Publisher Stephanie Nina Pitsirilos will answer questions about the journey involved in assembling a team of artists and other professionals to bring her most ambition project to life:…

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Sentinels! On Graymalkin Lane

I’m baaack on The Graymalkin Lane podcast, this time being silly about Sentinels with some comics superstars (love that Chad brings me on to fangirl these folks and then talk about how I like Sentinels because they are pink and purple). Listen as we dive in and I mis-character everyone in this issue. “Avengers 103:…

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Event Horizon Meets Goal in Less than 1 Hour

Really touched by those of you showing up in the early hours of the campaign getting us to BEING FUNDED IN LESS THAN 1 HOUR (55 MINUTES). So grateful, and excited for the rest of you who will join us. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/theninagalaxy/event-horizon-stories-of-no-turning-back

Portrait of a Woman

On the Eve of Her Kickstarter Campaign Launch There is a photographic work in Event Horizon with this name, though this picture is not it. Depicted above are the internal emotions of launching a book. More so: a photographic display of trepidation and vulnerability amidst the vastness of the world outside of selfhood. To make…

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“From Black Holes to Human Souls”

My first Event Horizon focused interview is up with StoryComic and the wonderful Barney Smith. Gives you a sneak peek into the Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign and its rewards, which are the discounted and exclusive offer preorders for the book. Always fun to window shop before the big event on 4/9 11amEST. We also discuss the process…

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Kickstarter Prelaunch Live: Event Horizon

We took our next big step closer to our Kickstarter for Event Horizon: Stories of No Turning Back, my debut short story collection told in comics, prose, canvas work and photography… we made our Kickstarter prelaunch page public on the actual site of Kickstarter! This means the project is officially up on Kickstarter as ready…

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Save the Date: 4/13 Brooklyn Independent Comics Showcase

Mark your calendar for Saturday April 13th 2024. Earth. Brooklyn. I’ll be tabling at the Brooklyn Independent Comics Showcase, and my table will be as busy as this flyer. That’s because my zines, chapbooks, artists’ books and traditional pubs will be sharing a table with the Event Horizon Kickstarter Launch party… wooooooot! We’ll be in…

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Trailer: Event Horizon Stories of No Turning Back

Almost one month away from our Kickstarter campaig on 4/9/2024 and we’re so excited about sharing the trailers we have for Event Horizon: Stories of No Turning Back!  Our story-driven trailer is meant to excite readers with curiosity, with a narration of prose layered over comics in the collection that come together in story-unity. Are we in somebody’s…

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The Trial of Jean Grey

You can find me in the latest release of the X-Men comics fan podcast Graymalkin Lane, “The Trial of Jean Grey”. This was a highly fan-requested episode and it was an honor to be the first one the host called to invite as a jury panelist. With lots of humor and nerdiness, Chad walks us…

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Vicious Penguin File #3 Released

Posted today Vicious Penguin File #3. The Vicious Penguin Files are a series of interviews I did with Tracy168 the Artist on the life that informed his art. For an introduction to these interviews, click here. Tracy168: Tracy Face, Thor, Race, Family. Recorded February 13th 2021 Tracy and I recorded this on the eve of…

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Author Marathon Latina Surge LinkedIn Live 1/23

Join Latina Surge and Latine authors, including me, on Tuesday January 23rd 2024: Live on Linkedin 7:30pm-9pm Latina Surge National. “We will celebrate the literary works in a sequenced marathon interview, author to author, from 7:30pm to 9:15pm ET on January 23rd of published and award-winning Latine authors : Valeria Aloe – Uncolonized Latinas Paul Sangillo, Esq. –…

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Cover Reveal for Event Horizon

At long last, the delight of sharing our lead cover for my debut short story collection Event Horizon: Stories of No Turning Back. Karen S. Darboe’s cover captures so much of the female voice, my voice, in this book. I so hope you join us for an April 9th Kickstarter launch–the crowdfunding that will spark…

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Cover Reveal… Watch out for Black Holes

My upcoming book cover is going to be revealed this week via a group that invited me to speak soon with their constituents. From the woman (and press) that warns you about wormholes, comes its cousin: WATCH OUT FOR BLACK HOLES. Literally watch out for black holes and tag me on social media @ TheNinaGalaxy…

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A Nuyorican Tale: Review with Essay

A personal review, mixed with memoir, on the dynamic jazz concert featuring Carlos Henriquez’s A Nuyorican Tale, at Dizzy’s Club on December 26th 2023. Sold out crowd. forgive typos in captions. Personal note on the father jail cell lesson mentioned: it was also about landing in a place you shouldn’t be in, but life is…

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The Vicious Penguin Files

The Vicious Penguin Files are a series of interviews with Tracy168 the Artist (Wild Style, Lovester One) on the life that informed his art. I conducted these interviews with him late 2020 through 2021 in NYC. For full background on these interviews and their format, do visit Vicious Penguin on www.tracy168.com so you have context….

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Perzine Fanzine: The Museum of Sex

New release under ANDROMEDA of my tour of the Museum of Sex in New York City. The Museum of Sex: A Tour & Reflections on its Tunnels is a sensual, personal and reflective look at the museum and the wormhole entry and exit points that landed me there. This chapbook-sized zine tours the Museum of Sex…

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Trials of Puppet Master & Brainchild

New episode up on Graymalkin Lane where we talk creepy guys Brainchild and Puppet Master of the Marvel Universe. I get to play a savvy lawyer and disgusted jury member. Lots of laughs on this one! Listen here on many platforms. Art for promo by Seth Martel. For more episodes: https://redcircle.com/shows/graymalkin-lane-the-podcast

Event Horizon on the Horizon

Continue to be very excited about this book for 2024. Sign up for launch. Teased art BLUSTERONE and Eric NguyenVideography by Cyrus, Stephanie Editor Song: Pretty Carolina by Jontha Links via Canva

All About Anthologies

Missed our roundtable this October all about anthologies? Listen to the recording.

Jean, Janus & Comic Book Realism: New Chapbook

The 2022 Chautauqua Janus Prize lecture “Jean, Janus & Comic Book Realism” is now available in chapbook and ebook form. The chapbook that takes you down a wormhole (or two) in handmade, saddle-stitched form. And ebook. And anthology t-shirt bundles. Oh my! Chock-full of craft, comic book realism, family history, historical notes for Puerto Rico…

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Coming 2024: “It Ain’t This But That”

Nova Odyssey returns in 2024 in comics format… I and cousin Aaron Guzman have a graphic prose story in the upcoming anthology : From Cocinas To Lucha Libre Ringsides: Latinographix Stories of Sports’ Food & Madness publishing in 2024 with Ohio State University Press. Alongside some amazing comics people, Aaron and I have the story…

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The Harmonics of Zeus + Δione

Last year was my “Lando” year, life lived from a book with a “humorous take on how to get what you want (and how to look good doing it) with the help of Lando Calrissian (Be More Lando)”. It meant gamble with things, take risks (I submitted myself to, then won a prestigious literary award),…

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Crowdfunding Panel KCU

Listen to a recording of the panel I was on in June 2023 with some Kids Comics Unite community members talking about the variety of our crowdfunding experiences and tips for your literary publications.

Black Eyes

A morning short short, written after breakfast coffee along the Aegean. Browsing an art gallery, on the way out, I happened to point out to a gentleman that I got a sense was part of the gallery, on a piece being, by the way, particularly stunning. “Why, thank you,” he said. I stopped in the…

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Excerpt Read of The Funeral Singer

A devastating and soulful read is Menis’s Koumandareas’s Their Smell Makes Me Want To Cry. Full of retrospective look into Greek and Athenian life of fading foundations together with modern realities, and also some very unsettling stereotypes/cliches that make me uneasy… there are a few lines that gutted me, enough to reenact the lives of…

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Book Readings in Athens, Greece

I look forward to visiting this special bookstore! Event invite: https://fb.me/e/2Qw4LDDdn Missed it? Here is a recording, thanks Cyrus! https://www.instagram.com/p/CtzLBh2BtJQ/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA== You can also catch me on Zoom 6/14 with Kids Comics Unite on a panel on Crowdfunding.

Loisaida Festival 2023

Stephanie will be vending at the 2023 Loisaida Festival Sunday May 28th 2023, 12pm-5pm, hawking her literary goods. This is a great chance to see the plethora of the mediums I work in, that have deep roots in Puerto Rican-Nuyorican culture. Zines that disrupt Latinx brand loyalty, zines that tease, zines that mourn. Anthologies like…

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Wormholes in Iowa: Teaching at Cornell College

My trip to Cornell College was a three day delight. Graciously hosted every step of the way and greeted by some sharp students eager to create “wormholes” in their graphic storytelling narratives. In workshop over two days we walked through my shared works like “Andromeda” and DR163 and broke down their layers (emphasizing the important role history…

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Talking Nightcrawler

My latest appearance on the fab and fun Graymalkin Lane podcast. Feb 20th 2023 Graymalkin Lane Podcast: Excalibur Minus One. From Chad: “Nightcrawler arrives on Graymalkin Lane! And for us, he just means joy. And he brings with him… Amanda Sefton! Margali Szardos and the Winding Way! Belasco! Limbo! The Soulsword! We cover another of…

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Graymalkin Lane Podcast: The Grey Family

Now available to the public, The Graymalkin Podcast where I talk all about The Greys with host Chad. We dig deep into the family of the Phoenix, including topics of familial genocide and intergenerational trauma. Always a pleasure to be a guest on this show, hitting heavy topics as well as light-hearted fun episodes.

17th Annual Puerto Rican Artisan Fair & Book Expo

Happy to share that I’ll be returning to the 17th National Puerto Rican Artisan & Book Expo this year at Hostos Community College, co sponsored by PRIDA and Comité Noviembre. Saturday November 19th from 12pm-6pm. 500 Grand Concourse, Bronx, NY. Main Gymnasium, Hostos Café. Proof of vaccination or covid test, and masks required. Come see me…

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Kickstarting Comics: New York Comic Con

Comics et al heads: see me at New York Comic Con, on a Kickstarting Comics panel! Thu, Oct 6, 20222:30 PM – 3:30 PM1C03 “In 2021 comics on Kickstarter raised over $30 million and had a 86% success rate! Join Kickstarter’s Director of Publishing and Comics Outreach, Oriana Leckert, Rocketship Entertainment CEO & Publisher, Tom…

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Storycomic, LIVE 9/29/22 8pm EST

Back with Barney! I’ll be on Storycomic live to talk about The Funeral Singer, Janus Point Press and whatever Barney has in store, tomorrow Thursday Sept 29th 2022 8pm EST. I love doing his show because it’s usually all smiles. Heavier topics to cover with The Funeral Singer, for sure, but all smiles for the…

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Jean, Janus and Comic Book Realism: 2022 Chautauqua Janus Prize Lecture

“Jean, Janus and Comic Book Realism”… Happy to share the recording Cyrus did of my Janus Prize Lecture and Ceremony at the Chautauqua Institution! It includes some snapshots at the end, highlighting how the Institution honors and celebrates its artists. The lecture is a trip down wormholes, genre-bending, comic book realism, Nuyorican & Puerto Rican…

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Released: The Funeral Singer

So proud of this new chapter in my life. My first artists’ book, and first publication for Janus Point Press: The Funeral Singer, published September 13th 2022. Limited edition artists’ book with foil stamping, custom silk book sleeve and curated arts and reading list, lightly scented in frankincense and myrrh. A story with an Einstein-Rosen…

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Broken Pencil Magazine Reviews Maria

Broken Pencil Magazine just published a lovely review of one of my zines as ANDROMEDA, Maria in their summer 2022 issue #96. Maria is the non-fiction seed to my story “Jean”, and its novel. The review is by Joshua Barton, and it’s detailed and in depth, as well as having a lovely voice to its writing….

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Covid Chronicles in: Drawing us Together, Exhibit at Harvard

COVID Chronicles is included in this interactive exhibition: Drawing Us Together: Public Life and Public Health in Contemporary Comics | Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. Runs 9/19 2022-Dec 17th 2022, opening reception ONLINE for a discussion which you can join 9/22 4pm on Zoom. My stories with Aaron Guzman and Seth Martel…

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Receiving the Janus Prize and Lecturing at Chautauqua

It was a great honor, and a week full of love, receiving the Janus Prize from the Chautauqua Institution this August 2022. Snapshots from the ceremony for “Jean” . My lecture was Jean, Janus and Comic Book Realism. It wove astrophysics, genre-bending in identity and literature, comic book realism in Latinx literature, Puerto Rican and UWS…

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Out soon: WinC Magazine Issues 1-3 in PRINT

Women in Comics Collective International (WinC) is print publishing the 1st 3 issues of their magazine this month. Full-of-heart editorial letters, prose, poetry, comics. I have a comic in #1 with Rafael Romeo Magat (51 Solstice). While we wait… reviews go a long way for a group doing great things: Uplifting women in comics, paying…

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Vote Speculative! Utopia Awards Now Open

New month and it’s a new opportunity to vote for #SpecualtiveFictionforDreamers published by Ohio State University Press/Mad Creek Books ! Vote for your favorite finalists in categories for utopian literature and art published in 2021. 8/1 through 10:00 p.m. PST on August 21, 2022. https://www.android-press.com/2022-utopia-award-nominees Speculative Fiction for Dreamers has been nominated for four awards…

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Graymalkin Lane Podcast with guest Dan Jurgens

I’m back on Graymalkin Lane Podcast, this time with host Chad and Anas Abdulhak, featuring an interview with Dan Jurgens. We smirked at rejected crush stories, enjoyed a ride through X-Men 52 (intro to Polaris), and at one point dissected whether she had agency on actions in this issue, and enjoyed Steranko art. Chad is…

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World Fantasy Award Nomination: Speculative Fiction for Dreamers

It’s another award nomination for #SpeculativeFictionforDreamers A World Fantasy Award ! If you haven’t bought your copy yet: https://chautauquabookstore.com/book/9780814257982Also remember your local library. So happy to be visiting Chautauqua soon to receive the Janus Prize for “Jean” in this anthology.

Graymalkin Lane Podcast: X-Men 47, Featuring Phillip Kennedy Johnson

A wonderful time had on this podcast with host Chat, Seth Martel and Phillip Kennedy Johnson. This X-Men was a riot to review. I’ve spent more time in the East Village this month in this comic and the zine fair than my entire NYC life. While there is much to say about mentalists, Orientalism, dating…

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Announcing Janus Point Press

Above quote by Russell Maret, Private-Press Printer and Type Designer A natural progression of Zoe Health (art meets public health) seems to be: Janus Point Press Welcome my boutique imprint, which aims not just to house selected works of my own as indie comics creators do, but also special print collections of others that support…

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Panel at Miami Dade College 5/20/22

This Friday! The Miami Dade College Student Writers Conference, online and in person. And free! Lots of great books to dive into, and authors and editors to hear and speak with. Including a few of us from Speculative Fiction for Dreamers . Our session is 3:10pm EST. Sign up below, see full schedule. https://express.adobe.com/page/E7XZIWH1TSjxn/

Speculative Fiction for Dreamers a Locus Finalist Best Anthology

Happy to see Speculative Fiction for Dreamers on this list of finalists from Locus Magazine. Congratulations to all. From their website: “The Locus Science Fiction Foundation has announced the top ten finalists in each category of the 2022 Locus Awards. These results are from the February 1 to April 15 voting, done by readers on…

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“Jean” Wins 2022 Chautauqua Janus Prize

Honored to receive this news. I’m the 2022 Chautauqua Janus Prize winner for “Jean”. Read the heartwarming press release here. You can find “Jean” in Speculative Fiction for Dreamers: A Latinx Anthology (Mad Creek Books, 2021)  at your local indie, library, Bookshop, online retailer, or book store. Many thanks to the Chautauqua Institution, Director Sony…

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Spec Fic for Dreamers is a 2022 Ignyte Awards Shortlist Finalist

Announcing The 2022 Ignyte Awards Shortlist… Speculative Fiction For Dreamers: A Latinx Anthology is on this list for BEST ANTHOLOGY/COLLECTED WORKS. Check out the bustling list of works and creators, and get out that vote! From the FIYAHCON website: “The Ignyte Awards Committee Is thrilled to announce the finalists for the 2022 Igynte Awards. The…

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“Jean” is a 2022 Chautauqua Janus Prize Finalist

I’m a finalist for the 2022 Chautauqua Janus Prize for my story “Jean” , where a preteen uses comics as her star map to navigate life, and wormholes. Find the story in Speculative Fiction for Dreamers: A Latinx Anthology pubbed by Mad Creek at your friendly indie, or   https://bookshop.org/a/14972/9780814257982 Congratulations to all 5 finalists on this…

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Gumercinda’s Flower Out in WinC’s March Equinox Issue

Find a new story of mine in Women in Comics’s March Equinox Issue “Blooming” released today. “Gumercinda’s Flower” is a quick bloom at 300 words, but contains a universe. Check out the issue’s fun comics, poetry and prose celebrating Spring. Digital available at their shop, Amazon Kindle and Global Comix. https://msha.ke/wincnyc/#links-6  

Uncanny Creatives: My Interview with “Pops”

My interview on Uncanny Creatives was released today. I had a LOT of fun in this interview. “Pops” asked me a question that rang true native NYC: how does identity play out here and how does it play out in the arts? I was really happy to answer this in the same way I write:…

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Zine100: A Kickstarter Publishing Project of the Day

Zine100 is highlighted on Kickstarter.com today. Under 48 hours left to fund the zine that buddies up for public health. Back by Thursday Feb 17th 12pm EST. http://kck.st/3Kp8WKN Postcard art by Patrick Lugo.

Zine100 Reaches its Funding Goal

Thank you backers and supporters! Zine100 has reached its funding goal, with 7 days to go. We’ll spend the last days of the campaign reaching for our stretch goals, the first one being art of a page variant by Patrick Lugo.

Two Geeks Talking: Interview airs 2/11 3pm EST

My interview on Two Geeks Talking airs this Friday at 3pm. It’s a multi-hatted episode with some gravity towards #zine100, #DR163 but also a lot of thought-provoking dialogue on writing kryptonite, success, lessons learned, and pilgrimage. Link: https://youtu.be/fHtn-38HQ38

Let’s Talk About Bruno 2/10 Movie Chat

Join me and my other half in some movie deconstruction! Themes of intergenerational trauma, immigration and displacement. Open discussion. Hosted by Zine100 and Zoe Health, LLC. Thursday Feb 10th 8pm EST. Free registration at: https://tinyurl.com/letstalkaboutbruno

Locus Magazine: Recommended Sci-fi & Fantasy 2021

Great news for our anthology Speculative Fiction for Dreamers: it made Locus Magazine’s Recommended Sci-fi and Fantasy of 2021 list! JEAN is my story in this, prose. When Marvel comics are your star map to navigate the landscape of Nuyorico, ripe with wormholes. https://locusmag.com/2022/02/2021-recommended-reading-list/Jean Art by cuz Aaron Guzman (for our stuff, not in anthology)

Join us on StoryComic 2/1 8pm

Back with Barney! Join me live Tuesday February 1st 2022 8pm EST to talk about Zine100 on Kickstarter, public health and who knows? Join the chat live, say hello, ask questions about the Kickstarter, or catch the recording. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogcVEaPWuPYor https://www.facebook.com/243538294447731/posts/325993132868913

LAUNCHED! Zine100 on Kickstarter

We are LIVE with our campaign to fund #Zine100, the zine with tips on “HOW NOT TO BE COLONIZED BY OUTREACH PROGRAMS: A HOW TO ZINE ON WORKING WITH PEOPLE WHO OFFER YOU STUFF.” Today is the day for Kermit arms! The day you backers with enthusiasm and who don’t need the loooooong sale’s pitch…

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NYPL Recommends Covid Chronicles: A Comics Anthology

More cheers for COVID Chronicles, making New York Public Library’s “50 New Must-Read Comics. My stories in this with Seth Martel and Aaron Guzman are “Small Acts” and “Seasons of the City”. Multiple copies are available throughout the NYPL library system.

Zine100, a PROJECT WE LOVE, Launches 1/19/22 on Kickstarter

A smile for the first day of the year 2022: My upcoming Make100 Kickstarter public health zine is a PROJECT WE LOVE at the start gate. Zine100: How Not To Be Colonized by Outreach Programs is a how-to zine on working with people who offer you stuff. It provides basic groundwork for making sure your…

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New Review: COVID Chronicles, with a “Seasons of the City” nod

A nice review in Comics Grinder of Covid Chronicles: A Comics Anthology. “Seasons of The City” a comic by Aaron Guzman and me, gets a nice highlight. Covid, apartment living, history of housing, family stories and love and community here. Plus aliens.  Plenty of pop references. “Here are some examples that demonstrate the broad spectrum…

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COVID Chronicles Named a Best Graphic Novel of 2021 by Washington Post

A big congrats to @graphicmundi and #CoVidChronicles contributors. The Washington Post named it one of ten best graphic novels of 2021. Seth Martel, Aaron Guzman and I have stories in this, Small Acts and Seasons of The City.in a year I/we have so much life, it is fitting that these life stories get communal light, and warms the heart….

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Finalist at Canzine2021: Broken Pencil Zine Awards

Absolutely tickled that one of my zines is shortlisted in the Broken Pencil Zine Awards 2021 Contest happening now at Canzine2021! The event brings zinesters together from Canada, the US and the world.  HOW TO TALK TO WELLI ABOUT GOYA If you have a cursing grandma or relative resistant to changing brands that are supporting politicians…

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National Latinx Writers Conference

See those of you attending this conference! I’ll be a panelist with other authors of Speculative Fiction for Dreamers: A Latinx Anthology on Saturday, 12pm Pacific, 3pm EST.

StoryComic Interview now Available

My Storycomic interview with Barney is now available for listening or viewing! Click for youtube or visit the Storycomic page for Episode 111. We talk Speculative Fiction for Dreamers, 51 Solstice of WinC Magazine, DR163, finding community and connecting with editors and my new roles at Graphic Mundi and Comics Experience. All smiles all the…

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Book Riot recommends Mermaids Monthly

Mermaids Monthly made a splash in Book Riot’s list by Lyndsie Manusos: DIGITAL ESCAPES FOR READERS & WRITERS: 20 MUST-READ ONLINE LITERARY JOURNALS. You can read my and Seth Martel’s comic “Andromeda” for free on their site.

BACK WITH BARNEY: Catch me on Story Comic

Chat with us live at 7pm EST Tuesday 10/5/21. We’ll be talking…? Summer in outer space (51 Solstice); Speculative Fiction for Dreamers: A Latinx Anthology and my story, Jean; some graffiti comics (DR163!); some publishers… and whatever Barney has in store. Or he’ll just have to book me again. Smiles guaranteed. Live on youtube or…

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Speculative Fiction for Dreamers: The Mary Sue

Nice to end the week seeing our anthology Speculative Fiction for Dreamers on this list on The Mary Sue, by Alyssa Shotwell. https://www.themarysue.com/latinx-books-hispanic-heritage-month/

WinC Magazine Issue #1 Now on Comixology

Today is Autumn Equinox, so what a cool day for my comic with Rafael Romeo Magat in WinC Magazine’s debut issue, Dear Summer, to be available on Comixology? Enjoy “51 Solstice” and a collection of other great comics that muse on summer.

Interview with Solo Nerd Bird

K.S. Garner interviewed me about the newly released #SpeculativeFictionforDreamers and my story #Jean, how good editors influence the writing path, what’s success?!, and the intersection between public health and my works. BONUS MATERIAL: A war with my earbuds. Podcast Links: SoundCloud Apple Spotify

OUT NOW! Speculative Fiction For Dreamers

At long last! Speculative Fiction for Dreamers: A Latinx Anthology is now available at bookstores and libraries! Enjoy this stunning anthology. My story in it is “Jean”. Happy Launch Day to #SpeculativeFictionforDreamers, an anthology that took my breath away, as it did reviewers. Where to buy and borrow? Here’s a list of bookstores and libraries…

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Little Island at Little Island: Women in Comics

Join Women in Comics International every Friday 3-4pm this month of July at the Little Library at Little Island at Pier 55 NYC. 🌞 Lots of 👍🏾 comics to read, pier breezes and NYC Hudson views. You’ll find Insider Art there, with my and Ashley Ribblett’s “Little Island”. While you’re at it, check out WinC’s…

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51 Solstice: Women in Comics Magazine

I had the pleasure of working on another comic, this time with illustrator Rafael Romeo Magat. On sale now, debut issue #1 of Women in Comics Magazine: Dear Summer, filled with poetry, microfiction and comics. In “51 Solstice” NYC summers are reflected in life on a space station in the Pegasus constellation, with some planet…

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Brilliant Books Brought to Life on Kickstarter

Kickstarter hosts a curated list of “Brilliant Books Brought to Life” on their platform, and Speculative Fiction for Dreamers is listed! We thank all the backers, creators, editors, publisher and Kickstarter team to bringing this to life in orchestra.

Starred Publishers Weekly Review

Wonderful news for our anthology Speculative Fiction for Dreamers… starred review in Publishers Weekly! And I’m honored to get a shout out in it. From our publisher: “Outstanding,” “masterful,” “a knockout”—starred review for SPECULATIVE FICTION FOR DREAMERS in @PublishersWkly” From review: “Themes of family, migration, and community resonate throughout these 38 masterful stories, as in…

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Elsewhere 2 Now Available on Comixology

Excited to see Elsewhere Volume 2 available for purchase on Comixology now. You can find ” A Real Selfie” in here, by me and Seth Martel. From the website: Elsewhere Vol. 2 “Relax your body and breathe deeply, completely. Observe your thoughts and let them pass through your mind without clinging. Feel the air on…

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The Toronto Comic Arts Festival

I look forward to more announcements on my MPH world meeting my comics/graphic novel hat: TCAF attendees, don’t miss this panel Health (S)Care: Personal and Global Perspectives – 4:00 PM ESTLive. Thursday May 13th 2021. Features COVID Chronicles: A Comics Anthology. “There has perhaps been no other time in recent history where our health care…

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Speculative Fiction for Dreamers: PreOrder

You can now pre-order Speculative Fiction for Dreamers, which features my story, “Jean”. “Speculative Fiction for Dreamers brilliantly runs the gamut of visual, oral, and textual storytelling, creating magical wormholes that link Indigenous past to place-rooted present, imagined futures, and the abode of syncretic gods. These vital pieces resonate like entangled particles of ancestors and descendants,…

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Speculative Fiction for Dreamers at #AWP21

Had a wonderful time attending the panel where I read from my short story “Jean” on the #AWP21 Panel  Soñando Juntos: Latinx Speculative Futures this week and hearing Karlo, William and Sara read from their lovely stories! And the panel chat. Also loved listening to the Friday panel with the editors about their thoughts on…

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My Interview on Storycomic

Had such a great time being interviewed by Barney Smith about my writing journey and sharing the projects and some of the people I’ve collaborated with. You can watch the interview on youtube, or listen as a podcast. Hope to be back again for future projects. He’s a warm interviewer with a smile, and gotta…

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Elsewhere, Volume 2: Launched on Kickstarter

Another story is launched into orbit, this time on Kickstarter: Back Elsewhere Comics Anthology (Volume 2), and you get Seth Martel and my “A Real Selfie”, a spooky vacation quest five page comic, along with 250 pages of awesome comics by many creators. Because right now, all of us are dreaming of being…Elsewhere. This book…

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Happy Launch Day! COVID Chronicles: A Comics Anthology

Party dance! Happy Launch day to @graphicmundi ‘s debut book #CovidChronicles : A Comics Anthology. It’s gotten great reviews and has an array of contributors, including me, @scmartel and @mkywrench . One story is a shout out to @irancontrakid74 and his support of the arts with medicine. Check out “Small Acts” and “Seasons of the City”, rep’ping a lot of native NYC.Thank you to editor…

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Join me LIVE on STORYCOMIC! 2/18 7pm EST

Join me for a live interview and chit chat with gracious host Barney Smith of Storycomic.com! Thursday February 18th 7pm EST. Here are the links, and it will also be recorded and posted. Youtube:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqX6ZtB55OA Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/302460386485617/posts/4047238132007805/

“Andromeda” Making a Splash in Mermaids Monthly

Seth Martel and I have a sexy little short comic coming out in the February Issue of Mermaids Monthly. In “Andromeda”, the human space age is sparked when nine cosmic mermaids descend from the Andromeda Galaxy and leave an indelible mark on the hearts of sailors. Subscribe for all things mermaids: short stories, comics, poems,…

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Comic Beat shares COVID Chronicles in Most Anticipated List Winter 2021

Comics Beat shares a great list of “The 75 Most Anticipated Graphic Novels for Winter 2021…New and upcoming graphic novel releases from January-March 2021” and COVID Chronicles: A Comics Anthology is included! Read the article here for some wonderful book recommendations. The anthology comes out on 2/15/2021. “See you” at our book launch! Hop to…

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Book Talk with LAACU-Columbia University

Columbia University affiliates are invited for a virtual chat with me and author Paul Sangillo, Esq. “Live discussion on the creative and practical sides of becoming a published author.” Register here to attend!

New Cover Reveal for Speculative Fiction for Dreamers

New cover reveal for Speculative Fictions for Dreamers: A Latinx Anthology, edited by Alex Hernandez, Matthew David Goodwin, and Sarah Rafael Garcia (OSU Press), the first collection of YA Latinx speculative fiction. We gaze at it until August 2021, when it finally becomes available for us to hold in our hands, at long last. But it’s a wonderful…

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Join me for COVID Chronicles Book Launch 2/19!

Virtual launch for #COVIDChronicles, and I’m happy to be a panelist. Register for the 2/19 launch hosted by The Seminary Co-op bookstore. Featuring: Jason Chatfield, Sarah Firth, John Jennings, Stephanie Nina Pitsirilios, and Kendra Boileau. They will be joined in conversation by Matthew Noe. 6pm CT /7pm EST/ 4pm WCTPresented in partnership with Graphic Mundi. Register…

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Starred Review from Kirkus for COVID Chronicles

A starred review from Kirkus for COVID Chronicles: A Comics Anthology. I have two stories in this, with illustrators Aaron Guzman and Seth Martel. Comes out in Feb 15, 2021, pre-order from your local book/comic shop, or bookshop.org You can read the review on Kirkus.

Nice thing to see our panel “Soñando Juntos: Latinx Speculative Futures” for #AWP21 highlighted in The Writer’s Chronicle. The conference takes place virtually March 3-7th 2021. Our panel on Latinx Speculative Futures includes author readings from our works. I read from my prose story, “Jean”, (which intersects with comics as literature) and will be available live for…

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Vote! Insider Art Up for Best One-Shot Anthology

Insider Art is up for Broken Frontier’s Best One-Shot Anthology of 2020! You can vote for us (it has my story “Little Island” illustrated by Ashley Ribblett) and other great comics here, just look for the blue vote button.

ZINE: 12 Days of Bomba

Continuing my zine game, was asked to make a creative thank you to a group we’re a part of. So: a hastily drawn zine (small handcrafted comic book/magazine) with some of the wonderful things Los Pleneros de la 21 have offered us over the years and the year 2020. (In the spirit of 12 Days…

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Join me @ MexAmeriCon Virtual Premiere

Join me for some geeky, fun and deep convos on sci-fi, comics and the Latinx community on Saturday 12/12/2020 starting at 11:00 am. I’m a panelist with some other great creators and editors: “Latinx Sci-Fi: Creation & Intervention”. Meet some amazing creators in a vibrant comic con based in Austin, Texas that celebrates Mexican-American and…

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Pre-Order The COVID Chronicles

Available for pre-order! Graphic Mundi‘s debut book for this new imprint from Penn State releases February 2021, and I’ve got two stories in it! “The comics in this collection have been generously donated by their creators. Proceeds from the sale of this volume are being donated by the publisher to the Book Industry Charitable Foundation…

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Funded! Plus Author Read Video

Thank you to all those who shared and backed Speculative Fiction for Dreamers: A Latinx Anthology–our Kickstarter is funded! This means creators will be paid for their work, fans have snagged their spot for uber pre-orders of the book, and some luckier backers will bask in their chosen rewards (which ranged from critiques, to art,…

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Author Reading Friday-Sunday

Grab a drink of choice, back the book and join some of the authors and artists of Speculative Fiction for Dreamers: A Latinx Anthology at 7pm this Friday Oct 16th, Saturday October 17th and Sunday October 18th (my day to read!) for some readings and convo. Live at: Facebook.com/mattgoodwin6 Myths and Magics: Friday, October 16…

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Virtual “Meet Me” at Diversity Comic Con Oct 16-17th 2020

If you’re an editor, illustrator, publisher I’ve worked with: I’m a virtual exhibitor at #DiversityComicCon this weekend hawking the goods. My “table talk video” displays work for benefits during these hard times & my creative trove. Not the secrets, though. Come and say hello! “Diversity Comic Con 2020 will be completely online. Which means anyone…

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GetusPPE thanks Heroes Need Masks: Anthology Released

GetusPPE, the grassroots group that rallied to get medical workers protective equipment at the outbreak of COVID-19, received the almost $2k donation the comics anthology Heroes Need Masks raised from our kickstarter. I have a story in there with Seth Martel. Checkout their heartfelt letter: https://getusppe.org/heroes-need-masks-comic-raises-money-for-get-us-ppe/

“Jean” Featuring at 2021 AWP

This makes two years in a row that the YA Latinx Anthology: Speculative Fiction for Dreamers (Aug 2021, Ohio State University Press) has snagged a panel at The AWP Conference & Bookfair. This time, I’ll be sharing my story, “Jean” on the panel Soñando Juntos: Latinx Speculative Futures in March 2021 with some of the…

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Launched 9/21: Kickstarter 4 Speculative Fiction for Dreamers

Finally, a Young Adult Latinx anthology of science fiction and fantasy! Happy to have my story “Jean” in this out-of-this-world book releasing in 2021 with Ohio State University Press. The editors have organized a Kickstarter launched Sept 21, 2020 to 1) preorder a copy of the book while 2) raising money to pay the creators…

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INSIDER ART Available in PRINT

Great news! The anthology INSIDER ART is coming to print, via Kickstarter. My prose story (illustrated by Ashley Ribblett) is included, an ode to my grandmother’s bathroom. It’s also a story of the longing of diaspora, intergenerational family living, and if you look and read closely, a little Puerto Rican history. I wrote it during…

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Episode 4, DR163 is up! Mince

Pissed at the news? So is Dr. Kaveh. Let’s see what he does about it. It’s the conclusion to my and Aaron Guzman’s WEBTOON graphic novella, DR163. DR163 and Legend set out to put Dr. Kaveh’s military past to rest, with a side of justice. And it’s countdown to the grand prize giveaway to our…

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Broken Frontier Review: Insider Art

Check out this wonderful review on Broken Frontier of the digital anthology Insider Art: 270 pages of comics, prose, crafts, recipes, games… by female and non-binary creators, where all proceeds go to female and non-binary comic retailers. Take a tour of the “House” that makes the anthology and see what makes this bargain of a…

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EPISODE 3 IS UP: LUCIDITRIX

Silly Rabbit… Episode #3 of DR163 is up. LUCIDITRIX. THERE IS NO TURNING BACK AFTER THIS EPISODE. On Webtoons. 10 days left people. 2 more impossible episodes. Help us win the Short Story contest and catch the eye of Webtoon. View it, like it, comment in comment section (tap screen at end of comic if…

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Insider Art OUT NOW!

Grab your beach gear and dive into my prose story “Little Island” in the bathroom of the house of Insider Art, a benefit comic-crafts-prose-cookbook anthology whose funds go to female and non-binary comic book retailers. BEAUTIFUL art for my story is by Ashley Ribblett. Available on Gumroad. Pay-what-you-can, suggested donation $10. Proceeds go to the…

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DR163 Episode 2 is up!

Dive in and dig deep into Episode 2 of our Webtoon DR163: “Insides“. The obvious question is Who is Legend? But the bigger reveal may be: Who is Dr. Kaveh? Best viewed with the free Webtoon App on, on your phone. Aaron and I appreciate your support, even if it’s just a click for a…

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Support Heroes Need Masks

Available now, the Kickstarter for the benefit comic anthology Heroes Need Masks that raises funds to buy PPE for healthcare workers, gives you a chance to thank a healthcare worker you know with their portrait, AND gifts you with a collection of comics to enjoy. Illustrator Seth Martel and I have a comic in this…

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Out Now! DR163

Grab your digital graffiti cans and dive into Episode 1 of DR163 on Webtoon.  A long-lost graffiti artist and trauma surgeon form an unlikely friendship when the magic of their hands turns them into midnight vigilantes. Aaron Guzman’s art is a magical scroll down a mind-bending story of a doctor in need of healing and the…

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