Homesick: Stories by Cipri, Nino

Nino Cipri

Homesick: Stories

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*Winner of the 2018 Dzanc Short Story Collection Prize*Stories in the collection have been published widely, including in Fireside Fiction, Cicada Magazine, Nightmare Magazine, Interfiction,...

*Winner of the 2018 Dzanc Short Story Collection Prize
*Stories in the collection have been published widely, including in Fireside Fiction, Cicada Magazine, Nightmare Magazine, Interfiction, Crossed Genres, Tor.com, Liminal Stories, and more

Shirley Jackson Award finalist

World Fantasy Award finalist


Dark, irreverent, and truly innovative, the speculative stories in Homesick meditate on the theme of home and our estrangement from it, and what happens when the familiar suddenly shifts into the uncanny. In stories that foreground queer relationships and transgender or nonbinary characters, Cipri delivers the origin story for a superhero team comprised of murdered girls; a housecleaner discovering an impossible ocean in her least-favorite clients’ house; a man haunted by keys that appear suddenly in his throat; and a team of scientists and activists discovering the remains of a long-extinct species of intelligent weasels.

In the spirit of Laura van den Berg, Emily Geminder, Chaya Bhuvaneswar, and other winners of the Dzanc Short Story Collection Prize, Nino Cipri’s debut collection announces the arrival of a brilliant and wonderfully unpredictable writer with a gift for turning the short story on its ear.

Nino Cipri is a queer and trans/nonbinary writer, editor, and educator. A longtime resident of Chicago, they are a graduate of the Clarion Writers' Workshop and now an MFA candidate at the University of Kansas. Nino's fiction and essays have been published by dozens of different venues, including Daily Science Fiction, Fireside Fiction, Nightmare Magazine, Interfiction, Tor.com, and more. Nino has also written plays, screenplays, and radio features; performed as a dancer, actor, and puppeteer; and worked as a stagehand, bookseller, bike mechanic, and labor organizer. One time, an angry person on the internet called Nino a verbal terrorist, which was pretty funny.

Genre
Fiction
Pages
216
Publisher
Dzanc Books
Publication Date
October 15, 2019
ISBN
9781945814952