Mari Ness is an American poet, author, and critic. She has multiple publications in various science fiction and fantasy magazines and anthologies. Her work has been published in Apex Magazine, Clarkesworld, Daily Science Fiction, Fantasy Magazine, Fireside Magazine, Lightspeed, Nightmare Magazine, Strange Horizons, Tor.com, and Uncanny Magazine. In Locus, Paula Guran said of The Girl and the House that Ness: "subverts and glorifies the clichés and tropes of every gothic novel ever written, in less than 1,800 words" In 2025, her poem "Ever Noir" was a finalist for the Hugo Award for Best Poem.
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2026
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Publication Note(Note: this essay contains spoilers for all three seasons of Amazon Studios’s The Wheel of Time, and some mild spoilers for the book series written by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson.) The woman is too fatigued to move. Far too fatigued. She also has a painful wound in her shoulder, large...
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Uncanny Magazine
Uncanny Magazine · Feb 1, 2026
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