Paul Jessup (writer)

Paul Matthew Jessup (born August 24, 1977) is a United States writer of short stories, novels, poetry, and plays. His work plays with genre forms, embraces magical realism and surrealism, and challenges our assumptions on what fantasy and science fiction is and how it works and relates to reality. He is inspired by folk lore, fairy tales, and mythology. A lot of his writing falls under Weird Fiction.

In 2000 he was awarded Kent States Virginia Perryman Award for Excellence in Freshman Short Fiction.

Books[]

• The Silence that Binds (2021, published by )
• Close Your Eyes (2018, published by )
• Glass Coffin Girls (2009, published by PS Publishing)
• Werewolves (2010, published by Chronicle Books)
• Open Your Eyes (2009, published by ) (2013 published in Alamanach Fantastyki by Solaris, translated into Polish by Miroslaw Obarski)
• AngelWings and FinerThings: A Dream (2000, published by )

Poetry[]

• All the houses on Sesame Street are haunted houses (2013, published in )
• That time I said hello to you, and you thought I was a bear (2012, published in Word Riot)
• The Basement (1997, published in Ashtabula Star Beacon)
• Red Dirt (1997, published in Ashtabula Star Beacon)
• Beware the Glass Rabbit (1998, published by )

Nonfiction[]

• A Wave on the Sea (2018, published in Apex Magazine)
• Surviving Times of Stagnation (2017, published in SFWA
• Post-Novel Blues (2018, published in SFWA)
• Finding Your Tribe (2017, published in SFWA)
• Someone Changed the Bones in Our Homes (2017, published in Nightmare Magazine)
• The Rebirth of Grue (2008, published in Strange Horizons)
• Confessions of a Red Mage (2008, published in Strange Horizons)
• Standing Still, Falling Behind (2008, published in Erie Life Magazine)

Short fiction[]

• The Music of Ghosts (2018 published in Interzone Magazine)
• The Days of Talking Mountains (2015 published in Farrago’s Wainscot)
• Summer Cannibals (2013 published in The Big Click)
• Sunsorrow (2013 published in Swords & Mythos Anthology, 2016 audio version at Far Fetched Fables)
• Red Dust from His Boots (2012 published in Alien Sky Anthology)
• Orange Cuts (2012, published in )
• PostFlesh (2012, published in )
• Cannibal Choir (2011, published in )
• Stone Dogs (2011, published in )
• And Out Came the Words of Fire (2011, published in )
• A Futile Gesture Towards Truth (2010, published in )
• Heaven's Fire (2010, published in Sybil's Garage)
• The Last Stand of the Antmaker (2010, published in Apex Magazine)
• The Adventures of Petal (2009, published in Fantasy Magazine)
• A Word Without Ghosts (2009, published in Fantasy Magazine)
• Secret in the House of Smiles (2008, published in Clarkesworld Magazine)
• The Sea of Dead Around Her (2008, published in Postscripts magazine)
• The Ghosts We Have Become (2008, published in Postscripts magazine)
• Ghost Technology From the Sun (2008, published in Postscripts magazine)
• The Ghosts We Have Become (2008, published in Postscripts magazine)
• Mudskin (2008, published in Postscripts magazine)
• Light Like Knives Dragged Across the Skin (2008, published in Pseudopod)
• Fingerbones Hung Like Mobiles (2008, published in Pseudopod)
• Philianion (2008, published in )
• Mister Waterbones and His Wife (2008, published in )
• Apple Magick (2008, published in )
• Postflesh (2008, published in Apex Magazine)
• The Happiness of Pinned Wings (2008, published in )
• The Alchemy of War (2008, published in Electric Velocipede)
• Happiness of Pinned Wings (2006, published in )
• The Gods Have Left Us (2006, published in Flashing Swords)
• Dream Thief (2006, published in The Harrow)
• When Max Was Hungry Again (2006, published in The Harrow)
• Clockwork: The Mechanical Nature of Humanity (2001, published in )
• Key 12 (2000, published in )
• Lunar Verses (2001, published in )

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Editor[]

• Hatter Bones (2010, ENE Press)
• Grendelsong (2004-2008 (print), 2015-2016 (online))
• Coffinmounth (2010)

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References[]

External links[]

• Official website

Interviews[]

• Paul Jessup “Open Your Eyes” Interview(October 2009)
• Paul Jessup “Open Your Eyes” Interview(April 2009)
• Paul Jessup “Fantasy Magazine” Interview(March 2009)
• Paul Jessup interviewed for "Naked Street Theatre" (February 2011)