How to Be a Star

Gravitationally collapse a nebula.
Fuse hydrogen into helium.
If desired, explode.

How-to astronomy poetry to answer vexing questions such as How to Surprise Saturn, How to Blush Like Betelgeuse, and How to Survive a Black Hole. Nominated for the 2024 Elgin Award.

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Winner of the 2021 Elgin Award, The Sign of the Dragon is an epic fantasy told in poetry. Of all the things I’ve written, it’s the one that matters most to me. It began with a single poem about a boy chosen by a dragon to be king. I meant the poem to be a standalone piece, but the boy stayed with me, and I returned and wrote more, and more, and more poems about him. Over three hundred poems in the end.

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Originally appearing in the journal Science, Elemental Haiku contains 119 haiku for the elements of the periodic table, together with explanatory notes. The haiku are accompanied by beautiful line illustrations drawn by Iris Gottlieb.

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Mary Soon Lee’s Ebb Tides and Other Tales brings together twenty of her science fiction stories, including reprints from the pages of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Interzone, and Amazing Stories.

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Winter Shadows & Other Tales is Mary Soon Lee’s first fantasy and horror short story collection.

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