Weird

Babies

WEIRD BABIES is a short story collection about weird babies: a miraculous set of reincarnated quadruplets, babies born from the bellies of trout, babies who are destined to molt like tarantulas, babies who hatch from piles of warm clothes. It's also about the weird baby living in each of us -- the tenderest part of ourselves that longs, at whatever the cost, to be loved. 

Stories within the collection have been nominated for the Best of the Net Award (2025), Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy (2023), and Best American Short Stories (2023). One story won the RBC/PEN Canada New Voices Award (2018), one was shortlisted for the Room Magazine Fiction Contest (2024), one was a finalist for the CRAFT Short Fiction Prize (2023), and one was a finalist for the CRAFT Novelette Print Prize (2024). Stories within this collection have appeared in The Ex-Puritan, Minola Review, the Temz Review, and CRAFT.