Fiction
2026
‘Not Even a Fly,’ Nightmare (forthcoming 2026)
'Repentance in Blue,’ Lightspeed (forthcoming 2026)
Dromedary Mary, The Dark (April)
Letters from Light’s End, khōréō (March)
The Worldbuilder, Lightspeed (February)
Dispersal, hex literary (January)
2025
Doppel Doppel Gang Gang, Baffling Magazine (December)
Love Story in Colored Glass, Uncharted Magazine (November)
Praise Song for the God of Restless Hands, The Dark (April)
2024
Slickerthin, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (Summer)
Loamblood, Space Cowboy Books presents: Simultaneous Times (July)
In Thin Air, The Dark (May)
Hiyannet, Beneath Ceaseless Skies (February)
2023
Nancy Shreds the Clouds, Flash Fiction Online (August)
and the crowd goes, Arcturus Magazine/Chicago Review of Books (April)
Silk-Wrapped Love Story, The Dark (February)
2022
One Day I Will, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (September/October)
WE, The Deadlands (August)
Father’s Flow, The Dark (August)
Mouthfeel, Escape Pod (April)
These Brilliant Forms, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (March/April)
2021
I, Mandragora, Lackington’s (December)
Dance, Macabre, The Dark (November)
Nails, The Dark (September)
The Penitent, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (July/August)
Memory Rain, Martian Magazine (June)
2020
Theory to Bring you Home, Kaleidotrope (Fall)
2019
Notes from the Laocoön Program, Metaphorosis (December)
One for the Wounded, Metaphorosis (May)
2018
Something to Burn, Black Static (July/August)
Gennesaret, Beneath Ceaseless Skies (March)
Gennesaret, Beneath Ceaseless Skies (audio, March)
Scholarship
‘Searching for Form: the Turn to Genre in the Harlem Renaissance,’ in The Cambridge Companion to Fiction of the Harlem Renaissance (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2026)
‘Texts, Sex, Paratexts: Re/constructing Sexuality in Science Fiction Zines,’ in Queer Print Cultures (U Toronto Press, January 2026)
Island of Dreams: Post/colonial imaginaries in contemporary Cypriot Anglophone literature, Literature, Critique, and Empire Today (June 2024)
Vector Special Issue: Greek SF (Guest edited journal issue, Spring 2022)
Approaches to Teaching the Works of Octavia E. Butler (review), Science Fiction Studies (November 2020)
Octavia E. Butler and Black Women’s Archives at the End of the World, Science Fiction Studies (July 2019)
‘The Beast of Bradhurst Avenue' by George S. Schuyler (review), The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (May/June 2018)
‘Light Ahead for the Negro’ by Edward S. Johnson (review), The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (September/October 2015)
Spectacles of Dystopia: Lauren Beukes and the Geopolitics of Digital Space, Safundi: the Journal of South African and American Studies (May 2015)
Interviews and Presentations
A Piece of Science Fiction Literary History Comes to the Antiquarian Book Fair, KQED (February 2024)
Unexpected Threads: An Interview with Dr. Phoenix Alexander, Uncharted Magazine (January 2023)
Conversation XI: Phoenix Alexander and “Notes from the Laocoön Program,” Better Dreaming: Conversations in Science Fiction (April 2022)
AHSS presents a conversation with Dr. Phoenix Alexander: Curating the Future, Anglia Ruskin University (April 2021)
Fulfilling a Dream: Phoenix Alexander ‘19 reflects on work with the Beinecke Library, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (May 2019)
Imagining Different and Better Futures, Yale Gradcast (April 2018)
Phoenix’s Futures, Yale Daily News (February 2017)
Reviews
2024 Recommended Reading List, Locus Magazine (February 2025)
Must Read Short Speculative Fiction: May 2024, Reactormag.com (June 2024)
2022 Recommended Reading List, Locus Magazine (February 2023)
Recommendations for Best Horror - Longlist, Ellen Datlow (November 2022)
Must Read Speculative Short Fiction for August 2022, Tor.com (August 2022)
Review: Lackington’s Magazine #24, Amazing Stories (January 2022)
Paula Guran Reviews Short Fiction, Locus Online (January 2022)
Into the Night: September 2021’s Best Horror Short Fiction and Poetry, Tor Nightfire (November 2021)
Fantasy and Science Fiction, July/August 2021, Tangent Online (July 2021)
Quick Sips: Beneath Ceaseless Skies #246, Quick Sip Reviews (by Charles Payseur, February 2018)