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Apex Magazine · Issue 154
Original fiction, essays & interviews
Dark, curious, heart-breaking — each issue showcases stories you won't find anywhere else.
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Author spotlight
Marissa van Uden
AuthorMarissa van Uden is a freelance editor and writer from Aotearoa-New Zealand who now lives in rural Vermont in a little cabin in the woods. She is the editor-in-chief of Violet Lichen Books (an imprint of Apex Book Company) and an associate editor and interviewer for Apex Magazine. As an anthologist, her credits include the Apex Magazine Strange Microfiction anthologies and The Off-Season: An Anthology of Coastal New Weird. Her fiction has appeared in Dark Matter Magazine, Zero Dark Thirty, Los Suelos, and Vastarien Literary Journal. She posts about Weird fiction, wild nature, and bog-witch life at Twitter/X (@marissavu), Instagram (@marissa.vu) and Bluesky (@marissavu.bsky.social).
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A new imprint dedicated to bold, boundary-pushing fiction. Strange worlds, strange voices — stories that refuse to be forgotten.
