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SHORT STORIES

2023
"A Borrowing of Bones" in New Suns 2: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color


2022
"The Black Hole of Beaumort" in Death in the Mouth: An Anthology of Original Horror from People of Color 

2021
"The Veil Between" in Seasons Between Us

2020

"Lyceum"

  • Reprinted in Lightspeed Magazine, February 2022

"Survival Guide"

  • Selected for The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2021

"Sakura"

Trilogy of stories in The Dystopia Triptych

2019

"Sympathizer" in Do Not Go Quietly

  • Selected for The Best Science Fiction of the Year, Vol. 5

"Blood and Bells" in New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color

"A Sun Will Always Sing" in Better Worlds

2018

"Invasio" in Shades Within Us: Tales of Migrations and Fractured Borders

"La Bête Sauvage" in Over the Rainbow: Folk and Fairy Tales from the Margins

2017

"The Summer Mask" in Nightmare Magazine

  • Selected for Wilde Stories: The Year's Best Gay Speculative Fiction

"Meridian" in Where the Stars Rise: Asian Science Fiction & Fantasy

  • Reprinted in Clarkesworld Magazine

  • Selected for The Best Science Fiction of the Year, Vol. 3

  • Shortlisted for the Sunburst Award for Short Fiction, 2018

"The Flesh of the World" in Tales from the Edge: Escalation

2016

"Machine" flash fiction in My Bloody Valentine, Great Jones Street

"Ozymandias" in Bridging Infinity

  • Selected for The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2017

  • Reprinted in Forever Magazine

"Ampersand" in The Bestiary

"A Resleeving of Love" in After the Fall

"Gold Mountain" in Clockwork Canada

"A Good Home" in People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction / Lightspeed Magazine

  • Selected for The Best Science Fiction of the Year, Vol. 2

  • Reprinted in More Human Than Human

  • Reprinted in Sunspot Jungle, Vol. 1

  • Reprinted in Science Fiction World (China)

2014

"Enemy State" in War Stories: New Military Science Fiction

2012

"Nomad" in Armored

  • Translated in Japanese for This Corner of Hell (Powered Suit SF Masterpiece Collection) 2021

  • Nominated for the Seiun Award for International Short Fiction 2022 (Japan), translated by Naoya Nakahara

"The Bleach" in When the Villain Comes Home

2006

"This Ink Feels Like Sorrow" in Mythspring: From the Lyrics & Legends of Canada

  • Nominated for the Prix Aurora Award for Best Short-Form Work in English in Canada, 2007

2004

"The Forgotten Ones" in So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction and Fantasy

  • Nominated for the Prix Aurora Award for Best Short-Form Work in English in Canada, 2005

  • Reprinted in Aliens: Recent Encounters

1994

"Culture Shock" in On Spec: the Canadian Magazine of Speculative Writing

"In a short span, Lowachee creates a world alive with its own social and moral codes that entrap those who live within them. Even its language...feels at once fresh, lived-in, and yet very distinct."

Cynthia C. Scott, Strange Horizons, on "Blood and Bells"

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