About the Author

Pauline Chow is a writer and ancestral magic practitioner, crafting alternative histories and optimistic futures. She is a Pushcart Prize nominated author with words in Cosmic Monthly Horror, Space and Time Magazine, Apocalypse Confidential, and more. Not your average data scientist, she once sued slumlords and advocated for affordable housing in Southern California. Now, she lives in the woods and is planning her next trip to a historical (hopefully haunted) hotel.

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Books

• Coven of the East: Reimagining Asian Women’s Magical Histories, Co-editor (Sep 2025)
• Chasing Moonflowers: Gothic Historical Fantasy (July 2025)

• Demagogue Press, Nat20: Magazine Games and Stories – Spring 2026, Hazards of a Rainbow (Feb 2026)
• Alien Buddha Press, Buddha Loves You Too Anthology, Darkness Straddles Her (Aug 2025)
• Cosmic Horror Monthly, Issue #61: Leave No Rock Unclimbed (July 2025)
• Pushcart Prize Nominated: Space and Time Magazine, Issue #147: Born of the Blood Moon: Before the Frog Sang from the Well (Oct 2024)
• APOCALYPSE CONFIDENTIAL, Strange Skies Weird Worlds, Reconfiguration of the Human Spirit (Apr 2024)
• Duck Duck Mongoose, Issue By the Fireplace: Goodnight Nobody (Feb 2024)
• Cosmic Horror Monthly, Issue #43: Dragging Bones from the Ocean (Jan 2024)
• 101 words: Listen, Before It’s Too Late (Jan 11, 2024)
• H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival 2023: Arkham World’s Fair – The Challenge From Beyond Volume 8 (Oct 2023)
• Wicked Shadow Press: Murder on Her Mind Anthology Volume 1 (No Longer in Circulation, Mar 2023)
• Chamber Magazine: Work Friends (May 6, 2022)
• 50-word Stories: Cutting Expectations (May 5, 2022)

Essays

• Not All Ghosts are Dead, Canto Cutie, Issue #9 on Nature (Forthcoming Nov 2025)
• Ancestral Worship as Cultural Reinvention, Coven of the East, Ghastly Goings-On Press (Forthcoming Sep 2025)
• Let Her Feast: How Asian Female Vampires Subvert Self-Sacrifice, HOWL Society Blog (May 2025)
• Corsets, Curses, and Colonialism: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly of Victorian Horror, Ginger Nuts of Horror (May 2025)