Books
(September 2023)
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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JABberwocky Literary Agency, Inc. (April 21, 2020)
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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Ten Speed Press; Illustrated edition (October 1, 2019)
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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Dark Regions; First Edition edition (September 2, 2002)
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.
Dark Regions Press, First Edition edition (October 2001)
Winter Shadows & Other Tales is Mary Soon Lee’s first fantasy and horror short story collection.
What's New?
Elgin Award
I’m honored and delighted to report that How to Navigate Our Universe has been nominated for the 2024 Elgin Award 🙂 🙂 🙂
Radon Journal
I’m delighted to report that Radon Journal accepted two more of my poems 🙂
Eye to the Telescope
My poem “On Dragon Food” is in the new dragon-themed issue of Eye to the Telescope. This is my twentieth appearance in Eye to the Telescope 🙂
Penumbric interview
Jeff Georgeson’s interview with me is now online at Penumbric 🙂
The Heartbeat of the Universe
I am honored to have two poems included in The Heartbeat of the Universe, a poetry anthology of work from Analog and Asimov’s Science Fiction, edited by Emily Hockaday 🙂
Website background illustrations by M. Wayne Miller
