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Zin E. Rocklyn is a contributor to Bram Stoker-nominated and This is Horror Award-winning Nox Pareidolia, Kaiju Rising II: Reign of Monsters, Brigands: A Blackguards Anthology, and Forever Vacancy anthologies and Weird Luck Tales No. 7 zine. Their story Summer Skin in the Bram Stoker-nominated anthology Sycorax's Daughters received an honorable mention for Ellen Datlow's Best Horror of the Year, Volume Ten. Zin contributed the nonfiction essay My Genre Makes a Monster of Me to Uncanny Magazine's Hugo Award-winning Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction. Their short story The Night Sun and flash fiction teatime were published on Tor.com. Flowers for the Sea is their debut novella. Zin is a 2017 VONA and 2018 Viable Paradise graduate as well as a 2022 Clarion West candidate.
A Library Journal Editor's Pick! A Den of Geeks Best Books of 2021! Winner of the Pulver Award An Ignyte Award Finalist Rocklyn is angry, lyrical, honest, and heartbreaking, riding the line between fantasy and true horror. --Catherynne M. Valente, New York Times bestselling author A name to watch.--The Washington Post Rocklyn's lyrical gothic fantasy debut considers how life can persist in a world of rot, death, and destruction. . . . [They] conjure Iraxi's precarious position in fluid, lovely prose. --Publishers Weekly This novella will whet the appetite of fans of classics like Ira Levin's Rosemary's Baby, P. D. James' The Children of Men, and Octavia Butler's Bloodchild. --Booklist A lush, mesmerizing novella about survival and the hope of righteous anger. An auspicious debut baring beauty and razorfangs. --Paul Tremblay A gorgeous, powerful debut. . . . You don't want to miss it. --Cassandra Khaw Rocklyn manages to write a darkly spectacular, yet strangulating world in the middle of the sea, with well-developed characters, vivid imagery, and dense lyrical prose....This claustrophobic story had me reeling as the tension rose until I reached the impressive ending.--Cemetery Dance Zin E. Rocklyn's extraordinary debut is a lush, gothic fantasy about the prices we pay and the vengeance we seek.--The Quiet Pond
