D.A. Straith

I'm D.A. Straith (they/them), and I’m a writer of speculative fiction; a student of the 2025 Clarion West Novel Workshop with my weird queer Arthurian fantasy Every Year the Summer; and a nonbinary transmasculine white settler based in the Greater Toronto Area.Twitter: @dee_straith
Bluesky: @straith.ca

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Short fiction

Published
"A Year in the Life of the Drowned Wastewater Plant East of Bellmarsh Village", in Flash Fiction Online (EcoFutures issue, December 2024)"Things Elan Reacquainted Himself with After Being Broken Out of His Single-Day Time Loop", in Inner Worlds Zine (Issue 3, June 2, 2024)
- Reprint forthcoming in Flash Fiction Online, early 2025“A Thread to Remember You By”, in All Worlds Wayfarer (Issue 17, Winter Solstice 2023)“How to Breathe Water”, in Augur Magazine Issue 6.2 "Fancy and Fantasy" (Winter 2023)“Most Tuesdays, the Optical Illusions Air their Grievances”, in Translunar Travelers Lounge (August 2023)Forthcoming
"Once Upon the Crossing of Mars", in Fusion Fragment (forthcoming, Issue 26, October 2025)"The Fishwife Who Killed Death", in On Spec (forthcoming)"Spore & Yeast", in Cosmic Horror Monthly (forthcoming)