About
Bastian Hart is a Michigan-based speculative fiction author who grew up in a city named after a shopping mall. As such, their work combines the weird with an untethered lust for nostalgia. Their work spans the breadth of speculative fiction but emphasizes the comfort that can be found in the abject and uncanny.
Whereas their day job as a librarian keeps them somewhat respectable, when they’re off the clock, they can be found lurking Michigan’s wetlands or furiously drafting their Monster Fucking Manifesto. Their work appears in Baffling Magazine and Luminescent Machinations: Queer Tales of Monumental Invention, both published by Neon Hemlock Press.
They are represented by Shannon Lechon at Azantian Literary Agency.
Publications
“Old Familiar Things”
Baffling Magazine, Issue 18 (December 2024)
“Old Familiar Things” appears in Issue 18 of Baffling Magazine. The story is available to read for free here.
“Aristophanes Airs His Dirty Laundry: A Eulogy for Love”
Baffling Magazine, Issue 12 (July 2023)
“Aristophanes Airs His Dirty Laundry: A Eulogy for Love” appears in Issue 12 of Baffling Magazine. The story is available to read for free here.
“On Castus”
Luminescent Machinations: Queer Tales of Monumental Invention, 2023
“On Castus,” my mech story about a treasonous polycule, appears in the fantastic collection of queer mech stories in Neon Hemlock’s Luminescent Machinations: Queer Tales of Monumental Invention.
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