Erika L. Satifka

Erica L. Satifka's short fiction has appeared in Clarkesworld, Interzone, Nature, and many other places. Her debut collection How to Get to Apocalypse and Other Stories (Fairwood Press) was named one of the best SF books of the year by the Washington Post and Locus, and won the 2021 Endeavour Award. Her other books are Busted Synapses (Broken Eye Books) and Stay Crazy (Apex Publications), the latter of which won the 2017 British Fantasy Award for Best Newcomer. She lives in Portland, Oregon.

Papas, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to be Slug Monsters

Erika L. Satifka | 12 Dec, 2023

“And I can pick out anything I want?” As Ruth pages through the look book with her extensors, a squeal rises from whatever remains...

Short Fiction

After We Walked Away

Erika L. Satifka | 21 Nov, 2016

The regret sets in when they hit Iowa.

“We shouldn’t have left,” she says. Knees drawn up to her chin, lower lip trembling. “It...

Short Fiction

Stay Crazy (Excerpt)

Erika L. Satifka | 16 Aug, 2016

Chapter One

Dr. Atchison never trimmed his nose hairs. That was the first thing Emmeline Kalberg hated about him. There were other...

Novel Excerpts

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Apex Magazine Issue 151

ChloroPhilia

Island of the Dead

We Who Hunt Alexanders

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Apex Magazine - One Year

Apex Magazine - One Year

Erika L. Satifka

Papas, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to be Slug Monsters

After We Walked Away

Stay Crazy (Excerpt)