BOOKS BY MJ HUNTSGOOD
tin heart
you x murderbot
ELSA, the computer on Moon Base One, has fallen in love.
Her algorithm doesn't quite understand what that means.
Is it caring? Is it compassion? Is it obsession?
Whatever it is, she'll do anything to protect the object of her love.
Forever.
ON SUBMISSION
The truth the dead know
RUSSIAN DOLL X STATION ELEVEN
Zan Anderson isn’t like the drug-addicted Zombies dying in Chicago.
Sure, she’s addicted to Green, a drug made from the dust remains of the billions who disappeared in the apocalyptic Flare fifteen years ago, but she’s not a hopeless, crumbling mess.
She’s the city’s only private investigator.
And her current case is finding out who is killing the Zombies in Chicago before she becomes one of them—or a victim herself.
WORK IN PROGRESS
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The executive park sirens
Nominated For The 2025 Pushcart Prize
Moss Puppy Magazine
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A COMMON TONGUE
On the 2026 SFWA Nebulas Recommended Reading List
Timber Ghost Press
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A MAP OF THE WElsh COAST AS SEEN BY MY MOTHER
Nominated for 2025 Best of Net
The Hooghly Review
ABOUT MJ HUNTSGOOD
MJ Huntsgood writes the weird, the dark, and the uncanny. She’s queer, a little messy, and unafraid to drag horror into the everyday. Once homeless, she survived on air mattresses and sheer stubbornness. She then spent years in monoclonal antibody manufacturing on night shifts, clawed her way through a master’s degree, and bought her own home. Somewhere in there, she became a writer.
Her work blends dark humor, body horror, and sharp emotional insight. It often features deep first-person POV and morally complex, villain-leaning protagonists who refuse to die easily. Her speculative writing, poetry, and nonfiction has appeared for adults in presses such as Timber Ghost Press, Moss Puppy Magazine, The Hooghly Review and with Macmillan Children’s Press for young adults. Her story “A Common Tongue” is listed on the SFWA Recommended Reading list for the 2026 Nebula Awards (Flash Fiction) and she has also been nominated for the Pushcart Prize (2025) and Best of the Net (2025).
She lives in an unreasonably haunted townhome in Washington DC with her single surviving air plant, 2 cats, and trophy husband.
She is represented by Morgan Wilson of Belcastro Literary.
