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Katharine Duckett
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USA Today bestselling author of many weird and magical works. Fiction editor, Disabled People Destroy Fantasy. Advisory Board, @octaviaproject.bsky.social.

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And if you need a little more convincing to check it out, here's what @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org had to say about this "delightful, chaotic" story of queer time travel in Amplitudes ("a standout collection for 2025"): ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/05/30/s...
A white text box on a futuristic blue, pink, and purple background: "Katharine Duckett’s delightful, chaotic “pocket futures in the present past” deserves special mention as a story of literal queer futurity: in it, time travel permits objects, letters, and finally direct contact between queer people of different eras. It’s funny: lively, grounded in theory, smart and messy, briskly paced and full of surprises. It asks: What if queer people could reach backwards in time, try to change history and liberate people in both eras? To what extent are we already achieving this through the queer yearning for possibility—rediscovering lessons from the past, carving spaces for the future, in communication across eras? —Jessica Finn, Ancillary Review of Books"
November 20, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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'Tis the season for eligibility posts!

As you're reading for awards this year, I'd love for you to consider my short story "pocket futures in the present past" & the other works in Amplitudes, edited by @leemandelo.bsky.social.
The cover of Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity.
November 20, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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Already trying to figure out what to propose as a couples' Halloween costume for next year, since my wife will only agree if the ensemble does not a) require her to wear make-up or wigs and b) allows her to mostly wear own clothes. This year's Beaker and Dr. Bunsen Honeydew may be hard to top.
Katharine dressed as Dr. Bunsen Honeydew of the Muppets, with green face and body make-up, round black glasses, a white lab coat, and red tie, blows bubbles. Her wife, dressed as Beaker, with a round orange foam nose, white lab coat, and spiked-up red hair, wears Beaker's signature expression of surprise as the bubbles blow past her. They are in a bar decorated for Halloween. Katharine dressed as Dr. Bunsen Honeydew of the Muppets, with green face and body make-up, dark green nails, round black glasses, a white lab coat, and red tie, holds and examines a purple vial with a wide-eyed expression. Her wife, dressed as Beaker, with a round orange foam nose, white lab coat, and spiked-up red hair, looks at the camera in surprise. They are in a bar decorated for Halloween.
November 10, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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A bright spot in this terrible week: getting my advance contributor's copy of "Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity" (coming out from @erewhonbooks.bsky.social next spring). I'm not sure I've ever needed stories of resistance, community, and queer and trans futures more.
Rex, a gray cat with yellow-green eyes, poses with an advance review copy of Amplitudes on a blue blanket.
November 9, 2024 at 11:13 PM
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Rex Duck-Lamb would run a bookstore, natch, selling scratch 'n' sniff volumes made exclusively for cats.
A gray tabby cat named Rex perches on the arm of an orange couch, in front of a full bookshelf.
July 28, 2024 at 2:54 PM
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Oh, wow, missed that my flash story, along with two other great reads from CRAFT, made the The Wigleaf Top 50 Very Short Fictions 2024 Longlist! Creating tiny stories that require a strict economy of storytelling has been really satisfying to me, so this is cool. wigleaf.com/2024longlist...
A transparent text square superimposed over a white background with green leaves. The title reads: The Wigleaf Top 50 2024 Longlist. Three stories featured on the longlist--Birds x Bees by Katharine Duckett, When You Visit Manhattan on Saturday and Your Boyfriend Who Lives in Queens Says He Can't Come by Nathan Xie, and There Are Hundreds of Beautiful Asian Women Waiting to Meet You by Tessa Yang--are listed below. The logo for CRAFT, the literary publication in which all three stories appear, is in the lower left corner of the text box.
July 24, 2024 at 12:50 AM
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Yeah!! Got to play Kathleen Hanna for a night and tried to do her justice, because she's amazing. (And I keep telling everyone to watch The Punk Singer!)
Katharine, a white woman with shoulder-length brown hair, on stage in fishnets and a pink dress with colorful glitter paint smeared on the side, singing into a microphone. Behind her, a white man with glasses and a hat plays a mint green bass. Katharine, a white woman with shoulder-length brown hair, is rolling her eyes as she sings into a microphone on stage. She wears a bright pink dress with colorful glitter paint smeared on the side, fishnets, and aqua Kizik sneakers. To her left, a megaphone sits before the drum kit on the floor of the stage. Behind her a white man with glasses and a hat is playing a mint green bass. He's wearing a white sweatshirt with colorful lines and jeans.
July 3, 2024 at 7:04 PM
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Quote post with a picture of you outdoors.
June 12, 2024 at 7:47 PM
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You wouldn't last an hour in the asylum where they raised me
Screenshot of Myst Island from the 1993 game Myst
April 27, 2024 at 4:15 PM
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Repurposed my Weird Barbie Halloween costume to try to bring the right Kathleen Hanna vibes to my Bikini Kill cover show and it worked out pretty perfectly
Katharine on stage in a pink dress that’s covered in glitter paint, holding and singing into a microphone, with a bassist in the background n stage in a pink dress that’s covered in glitter paint, holding and singing into a microphone while rolling her eyes, with a bassist and red drum kit in the background
March 25, 2024 at 2:15 PM
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Bringing this little guy (Rex!) into our household from the local shelter has been our best move of 2024 so far.
A three-year-old gray striped tabby cat curled up on pillows on a blue bedspread. A three-year-old gray tabby cat sleeping on his back with his paws curled up, on a fuzzy blue blanket.
February 21, 2024 at 2:35 PM
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My contributor copy of Greater Than His Nature arrived—can’t wait to dig into the creepiness. Get yours from @atomiccarnival.bsky.social!
A copy of the new Atomic Carnival anthology GREATER THAN HIS NATURE sitting between a small faux bronze skull statue and a coaster holder shaped like a typewriter.
November 8, 2023 at 2:51 AM
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This meal just cost me $78 at the Newark Airport. This is why Americans think the economy is terrible.
A still from the Rocky Horror Picture Show, where the dinner they’ve just eaten is revealed as meat from the corpse of Eddie. Riff Raff and Magenta stand by while Rocky looks on in horror.
September 22, 2023 at 12:59 AM
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🚀 Got a new newsletter out on dreaming of being an astronaut as a disabled kid, what accommodations mean in outer space, and how our imagined futures are deeply intertwined with our present realities: https://open.substack.com/pub/katharineduckett/p/the-quack-3-why-disabled-astronauts
A graphic reading “The Quack #3: Why Disabled Astronauts Must Lead Us to the Stars” imposed over a photo of Katharine as a childhood, looking through a cardboard cutout of a NASA astronaut suit. It also includes a link to the newsletter—katharineduckett.substack.com—and additional info on its content: “Disabled spacefarers in science fiction, NASA’s history with disability, and more.”
August 22, 2023 at 11:00 PM