Tiffany Fritz
- Graduate Teaching Assistant
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Biography —
Tiffany Fritz (she/they) is a queer and disabled writer of feminist fiction and an English teacher from the American Southwest, currently completing her MFA at the University of Kansas. An alum of Futurescapes and Under the Volcano, they specialize in the use of monstrosity in speculative fiction to explore marginalization and trauma. Their fiction has appeared in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Hayden's Ferry Review and Monsters Out of the Closet.
Education —
Research —
Fiction, Creative Writing, Formalism, Experimentalism, Speculative Fiction, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Novel Theory, Monster Studies, Gothic, Romanticism
Selected Publications —
"North American Union v. Exergy-Petroline Corporation." Analog Science Fiction & Fact. May/June 2025.
"Boundaries." Nine Eyes of the Desert: A Sonoran Web Issue. Hayden's Ferry Review. Fall 2023.
Selected Presentations —
“The Necessary Sex Scene: Crafting Queer Eroticism in Speculative Fiction." Sturgeon Symposium. University of Kansas. Lawrence, KS. 2024.
“That’s My Emotional Support Monster: Gender, Queerness, and Monster Romance." Children of the Moon: Werewolves, Shape Shifters in Global Lore and Literature. University of Texas Permian Basin. Odessa, TX. Virtual. 2022.
Awards & Honors —
Gunn Center Award for Speculative Fiction (2024)
Margaret Fuller Award for scholarship in feminist studies (2024)
Henry Matthew Weidner Creative Writing Award (2024)
Grants & Other Funded Activity —
William Albrecht Memorial Scholarship (2023)