Spend five minutes watching a tree and your day will be better.

Pretty sure many of our problems in the US be traced to the fact that we don’t take the elves into consideration. Before any more data centers are built, we should ask, what would the elves want?

‘She wants to be flowers but they keep making her owls.’

My first online solo show of the year is next Saturday May 9! Plz get your ticket & join me at the link- just $5 to help me keep the lights on between festivals + 48 hours to watch/rewatch if u can’t be there at showtime + gift song download from me #MusicSky sjtucker.bandcamp.com/merch/music-...

Joseph Decker. Green Plums, ca. 1885

a handmade embroidery artwork titled "Manually embroidered cats" created by artist @ladyserebrennikova.

Marjorie Miller, 'Queen of the Night,'1931

Same to you, Mari! :)

Likewise. :)

I'm thrilled that my poem "How to Become a Sea Witch," published in The Orange & Bee, is a finalist for a Hugo Award. 🙂 If you'd like to read it (and maybe vote for it, if you're a Hugo voter!), you can read it here: theorangebee.substack.com/p/how-to-bec...

my latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

Today @kitvaria.bsky.social reviews @theodoragoss.bsky.social's European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman! -JI "Mixing reimagined monsters, found family warmth, and darker historical realities into a story that is still full of charm and heart." fantasy-faction.com/2026/europea... #booksky 💙🪐📚

Beautiful. :)

I'm very happy to have a short story, "The Woman Who Stole Flowers," in the most recent issue of Ucanny Magazine. :) You can read or listen to it here: www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-... (The image is Károly Kert in Budapest, where some of the story takes place.)

New blog post. :) "In marble, Hosmer seems to be carving her own history, her own mythology — she is creating her own ancestresses, or perhaps all of ours." theodoragoss.com/2026/04/11/f...

And @michaeldthomas.bsky.social interviews @theodoragoss.bsky.social in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social podcast 69B where we hear the shocking origin of the story. :) www.uncannymagazine.com/article/unca...

Listened to @theodoragoss.bsky.social 's "The Woman Who Stole Flowers" from @uncannymagazine.bsky.social 69 today. A wonderful quirky story with some possible mythological answers. www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-...

Another poem for April. :) It was spring. All the birds were building their nests and I had no nest. theodoragosspoems.com/2022/08/05/s...

New Uncanny Magazine Podcast Episode 69B features “The Woman Who Stole Flowers” by Theodora Goss, as read by Erika Ensign; “The Truth About Wolves” by Marissa Lingen, as read by Matt Peters; and Michael Damian Thomas interviewing Theodora Goss! buff.ly/tPXub21

It's the 2026 giant World SF bundle! 15 books for $30! With @tadethompson.bsky.social, @aliettedebodard.com, @lavanya.bsky.social @theodoragoss.bsky.social @genni.bsky.social and many more! Plus supporting @locusmag.bsky.social! Reposts hugely appreciated! storybundle.com/scifi

Poem for today: Once upon a time, you knew the language of birds. Don’t you remember? theodoragosspoems.com/2024/10/31/t...

Great visual reminder that despite all the noise and chaos, we're all in this together. All on this earth living our fragile interconnected lives. And we have to keep finding better ways to coexist, as hard as it may seem sometimes.

More context on this #Artemis II image: * This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right * The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon: ☀️🌍🚀🌕

Poem for today. :) and underneath I could see the pale cream buds of what, eventually, would become flowers like bowls of milk theodoragosspoems.com/2020/02/06/t...

The 2026 World SF Bundle is now LIVE! buff.ly/l4ukzGV 15 books from the likes of @lavietidhar.bsky.social @theodoragoss.bsky.social @jonathanstrahan.bsky.social For @storybundle.bsky.social, you decide what price you want to pay. In support of @locusmag.bsky.social

My April project . . . I will try to post a spring poem every day this month. :) . . . And then I think, would I rather have rabbits or tulips? theodoragosspoems.com/2023/02/18/r...

Henri Matisse

New blog post: Small Moments of Joy This morning I woke up, opened the back door to breath in some (very cold) fresh air. On the fence was sitting a robin, with brown feathers on its back and a plump red chest, singing. There it was, joy! theodoragoss.com/2026/03/29/s...

Dear lovely folks, this is quick reminder that I'll be doing a reading and Q&A session for The Pixel Project TONIGHT at 8:30 pm Eastern Time. Here is the link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pOV...

I'll be doing a live reading and Q&A for The Pixel Project TOMORROW, March 27th, at 8:30 Eastern Time. Here is the YouTube link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pOV... Come join me for this conversation and support a good cause! :) Also please share!!!

The 2026 World SF Bundle is now LIVE! buff.ly/l4ukzGV 15 books from the likes of @lavietidhar.bsky.social @theodoragoss.bsky.social @jonathanstrahan.bsky.social For @storybundle.bsky.social, you decide what price you want to pay. In support of @locusmag.bsky.social

2. PELLARGONIA Since we focused on Borges last week, I had you read a story from @theodoragoss.bsky.social that has heavy Borges influences – "Pellargonia: A Letter to the Journal of Imaginary Anthropology." 53/

Went ahead and talked about AI in writing and publishing (aka, that Shy Girl shit), and the perhaps unseen perniciousness of how AI can utterly fuck up the fidelity of our information environment --

So wonderful to find a fun and exciting book that you can just rip through and @theodoragoss.bsky.social The Strange Case Of The Alchemist's Daughter is it! So much fun to read! Can't wait to read European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman next!

New poem. :) Lucy Strange went up to town wearing a raincoat over her nightgown, carrying a lantern, leading a goat — theodoragosspoems.com/2026/03/12/l...

The two best things to do when you are sad: Learn something. Make yourself of use.

New poem. :) The cries of the wild geese are spring, are returning warmth and growth and light . . . theodoragosspoems.com/2026/03/08/w...

I'm delighted that "How to Become a Sea Witch"is on the Rhysling Award longlist. In case you need instructions on becoming a sea witch, you can read it here: theorangebee.substack.com/p/how-to-bec...

The FCC just opened public comments on SpaceX's plan to launch a million satellites to do AI compute in space. Under the current proposal, an environmental review won't be required. Please consider submitting a public comment to oppose this damaging plan. darksky.org/news/two-sat...

Working on my Ekphrastic workshop and came across this fantastic post by @theodoragoss.bsky.social “...the best way to avoid clichés is to observe closely, to see things as they are instead of as people say they are. To see what actually is.” theodoragoss.com/2014/12/29/w...

New blog post: "It’s hard living in bodies, isn’t it?" theodoragoss.com/2026/02/22/m...

Now THAT's a headline. "The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents" fortune.com/2026/02/21/l...

New poem. What drives dictators? I suspect it's always the fear of mortality. theodoragosspoems.com/2026/02/12/t...

Puddleglum forever.

i think we all need to step back and realize that peak art was made when neolithic pot in the shape of a pig was fired

New poem, in the lovely Uncanny Magazine. :) The parsley girl is trickier than you think . . . www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-...

In addition I need to call out "The Parsley Girl" by @theodoragoss.bsky.social - the poem in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social podcast 68B. A really fun story about fairy tales and witches. I had not read the original Persinette fairy tale from 1698. www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-...

I love that Walt Whitman had this cardboard butterfly as something he kept as a treasured possession with his journals.

I'm absolutely thrilled that my collection Letters from an Imaginary Country, published by the wonderful Tachyon Publications, is on the 2025 Locus Recommended Reading List. :) locusmag.com/2026/02/2025...

Finally, a new blog post: theodoragoss.com/2026/02/01/h... "The problem, as I see it, is that the emphasis on AI and AGI seems to be replacing our focus on HI and HGI — on human intelligence."