Maria Deira

About Me

My fiction has appeared in Strange Horizons, Word Riot, and pequin. I'm currently not working on a novel about a neo-vaudevillian troupe of cloned child entertainers called the Shirley Girls.

The Flash Fiction Project: This year I'm trying to write a flash fiction story a week and post it to my website. Something to keep me motivated while I work on longer projects.

Any favorite authors? Books?

Willful Creatures by Aimee Bender
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
Two Brothers by Bernardo Atxaga
The Red Fox Fur Coat by Teolinda Gersao (link to story)
Ten Little Indians by Sherman Alexie
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Nada by Carmen Laforet
Chateau D’If by Jack Vance
The Complete Stories by Bernard Malamud
Lilith’s Brood by Octavia Butler
The Annotated Hans Christian Andersen
Palomar by Gilbert Hernandez
Groucho and Me by Groucho Marx
Kick Me by Paul Feig