death positivity in art
Death Positive Writer
Meet the Macabre
vza.writings@gmail.com
I've been writing (unprofessionally) since I could figure out how to put verbs after nouns. My focus on death positive art came significantly later.
I'm a death positive fiction writer currently based in Atlanta, Georgia. I write short science fiction, fantasy, and horror fiction, all with a death positive twist. In my writing, both for general fiction as well as for death positivity, I blend aspects of speculative and gothic fiction.
All the pieces I have been most proud of have centered focus on death, funerary practices, and giving agency to the deceased both before and after death. My first death positive work published was "The Eternal Flames" in Georgia State University's undergraduate literary journal, The Underground, in Spring 2023. Since getting that acceptance email, I've carved out my artistic niche and continued to write about the dead and making death something easier to talk about.
When I'm not writing, I like to read, knit, and spend time gaming with my younger siblings.