Maria Haskins
LightNews LightNews
banner
mariahaskins.com
Maria Haskins
@mariahaskins.com
7.8K followers 3.2K following 6.8K posts
Swedish-Canadian SFFH writer. Editor at Ruadán Books. Part of Many Worlds. She/her. Work in Best Horror of the Year, Lightspeed, Deadlands & more. 📚: WOLVES & GIRLS+SIX DREAMS ABOUT THE TRAIN🔗 http://linktr.ee/MariaHaskins Rep: Eric Showers.
Posts Replies Media Videos
mariahaskins.com
New today at Thoughts From the Writer's Desk, a wonderful, gutsy essay by Kirstyn McDermott - "When 'EAT THE RICH' is Not Enough: Horror Meets Late-Stage Capitalism" 👀 🖤
ruadanbooks.com/when-eat-the...
November 13, 2025 at 3:53 PM
mariahaskins.com
💛
A big black dog with a smiley face in the autumnal woods of the pacific northwest.
November 11, 2025 at 9:07 PM
mariahaskins.com
If you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it.
Judas Priest PAINKILLER album cover with a dragon / sawblade-wheeled motorcycle above a lava landscape.
November 8, 2025 at 6:00 PM
mariahaskins.com
Post you from a different era.

Solo-traveling me in Barcelona in a galaxy far far away.
Me, a million years ago, suntanned, in a red t and shorts sitting by a lizard sculpture in Park Güell in barcelona.
November 8, 2025 at 2:45 AM
mariahaskins.com
I read an early ARC of this book and now it's out next week and YES, you need this book by K.L. Schroeder. It's a dark and quietly unsettling scifi story & it might also be one of the few (only?) times I’ve seen my Swedish hometown Skellefteå mentioned in an sf book! psychopomp.com/product/no-o...
Cover for NO ONE TO HOLD THE DISTANT DEAD by K.L. Schroeder. Dark blue black background with a shimmery, glitchy skeleton.
November 7, 2025 at 4:35 PM
mariahaskins.com
Also at Thoughts From the Writer's Desk: Delia Lloyd's wonderful essay "Re-reading the Book I Never Published". ruadanbooks.com/re-reading-t...
Picture of a drained pool and photo of the author.
October 31, 2025 at 2:09 PM
mariahaskins.com
Four books to get to know me
Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John LeCarré. The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin. The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps by Kai Ashante Wilson.
October 29, 2025 at 5:01 AM
mariahaskins.com
I just found out from Greyhaven Exotic Bird Sanctuary that Holly the macaw passed away today in the company of her beloved mate, Buddy. She was a feisty, lovely bird & had endured & survived so much in her life. At Greyhaven, she was loved and cared for, but no one cared for her as much as Buddy.
An ancient macaw lady, feathers missing from her shoulders.
October 27, 2025 at 3:43 AM
mariahaskins.com
What a handsome gent. ❤️ My pirate clown says hello!
A cheeky green-cheek conure.
October 27, 2025 at 3:38 AM
mariahaskins.com
This is too damn hard but OK: Escape From New York.
Snake Plissken from Escape From New York looking 1981 tough in a leather jacket and eyepatch and soft hair.
October 25, 2025 at 8:43 PM
mariahaskins.com
💙 In my neck of the woods (BC) we get the Steller's Jays.
Adult coastal steller's jay with bright dark blue wings and tail, black head and beak. As the description says at all about birds: "Hefty, crested bird with an attitude. They are half charcoal black and half blue. Adults along the pacific coast have blue streaks on their black crest."
October 25, 2025 at 4:12 PM
mariahaskins.com
Help support one of my favourite publications: THE DEADLANDS! They have one of the coolest fundraisers around: you get a fancy coin for the Ferryman. 👀 AND you can get that coin plus signed books by Alix E. Harrow, Suzan Palumbo, and many other writers including ME! 💗 psychopomp.com/the-deadland...
Coin for the ferryman with skull and fungus and mushrooms.
October 20, 2025 at 3:48 PM
mariahaskins.com
SPRING IN THE CITY is out on December 2! I have a story in this anthology. It's set in Vancouver, at Third Beach, and it's about things lost and found in the waters there.

ruadanbooks.com/product/spri...
Cover art for Spring in the City a collection of dark speculative fiction.
October 20, 2025 at 5:37 AM
mariahaskins.com
The latest guest post at Ruadán's Thoughts From the Writer's Desk is a terrific essay by Delia Lloyd. "Re-reading the book I never published" is an honest and thoughtful look at what you can learn from an imperfect past:
ruadanbooks.com/re-reading-t...
Delia Lloyd: Re-reading the book I never published.
October 19, 2025 at 4:58 AM
mariahaskins.com
Fall.
Fall leaves with glistening rain drops.
October 19, 2025 at 12:42 AM
mariahaskins.com
Snuggling his squishy red toy. ❤️❤️❤️
Black dog snuggling his red stuffy toy. Big black dog draped over the couch with his stuffy.
October 18, 2025 at 1:51 AM
mariahaskins.com
The shadow knows!
Shadow of a conure.
October 15, 2025 at 5:47 PM
mariahaskins.com
If you see this post a random picture from your device without explaining it
Squidward pinned to the wall says "too bad that didn't kill me."
October 13, 2025 at 5:12 PM
mariahaskins.com
Press release: www.nobelprize.org/prizes/econo...

Prize announcement with video: www.nobelprize.org/prizes/econo...

Popular information (illustrations by Johan Jarnestad) www.nobelprize.org/prizes/econo...
Illustration in black and white with the rising arrow for GROWTH below icons for Better healthcare, improved educational opportunities, more leisure, better products, and more efficient communication. Original text with image: Figure 2. Economic growth is more than just money. It also includes factors such as education, research, healthcare, quality of life and job opportunities. ©Johan Jarnestad/The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
October 13, 2025 at 3:36 PM
mariahaskins.com
It's Nobel Prize week and today it's the Nobel Prize in Literature! It has been awarded to László Krasznahorkai, "for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art."
www.nobelprize.org/prizes/liter...
László Krasznahorkai, drawing.
October 9, 2025 at 2:56 PM
mariahaskins.com
Pedro Pascal in Buffy S4 is so freaking young it's weirding me out.
A ridiculously young and preppy Pedro Pascal with a smooth face and a Tom Cruise hairdo chatting with Buffy.
October 9, 2025 at 5:12 AM
mariahaskins.com
The latest guest essay at Ruadán's Thoughts From the Writer's Desk is by Tricia Patras, and it's all about finding inspiration and (re)igniting your creative spark.

ruadanbooks.com/on-finding-i...
A view of Florence in beautiful early/late sunlight, the sky shifting to blue, the light to gold. Tricia Patras.
October 8, 2025 at 3:39 PM
mariahaskins.com
Nobel Prize Week! Today, it's Chemistry. The prize has been awarded to "Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi "for the development of metal–organic frameworks".
www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemi...
Omar M. Yaghi, drawing. Richard Robson, drawing. Susumu Kitagawa, drawing.
October 8, 2025 at 3:09 PM
mariahaskins.com
It's time for the Nobel Prize in Physics! It has been awarded to "John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis "for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit".
www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physi...
John M. Martinis, drawing Michel H. Devoret, drawing. John Clarke, drawing.
October 7, 2025 at 3:07 PM
mariahaskins.com
It's Nobel Prize week! First out is the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. This year it's been awarded to "Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi "for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance."
www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medic...
Mary E Brunkow, drawing Fred Ramsdell, drawing. Shimon Sakaguchi, drawing.
October 6, 2025 at 3:09 PM