essays & translations

essays & criticism

Edited Volumes:

Beyond the Back Room. New Approaches to Carmen Martín Gaite. Peter Lang, 2010. With J. Woods

Selected essays & introductions:

  • ‘Five Spanish Women SpecFic Writers You Should Know’. Reactor, 2025
  • ‘Three Novels by Nicholas Binge’. Interzone # 302, 2025
  • ‘8 Books About the Quiet Power of Libraries and Museums’. Electric Lit, 2025
  • ‘Meet the New World, Same as the Old World: Premee Mohamed’s Broken Futures’. Interzone #301, 2025
  • ‘How to write when you can’t write’. Guest Post, The FantasyHive, 2024
  • ‘It’s about to get crazy, it’s about to get loud!: Weird Ecopoetics at the end of the world’. In Writing the Future: Essays on Crafting Science Fiction. Dead Ink Books. Ed. Dan Coxon & Richard V. Hirst, 2023
  • ‘Introduction’, The Topless Tower by Silvina Ocampo. Calque Press, 2023
  • ‘Introduction’, An Invite to Eternity: Tales of Nature Disrupted. Calque Press, 2019
  • ‘Nature has at last escaped from their discipline and their fetters: Ostranenie and the Ecological sublime in Jeff VanderMeer’s Annihilation and Brian Catling’s The Vorrh’. WorldCon. The World Science Fiction Convention (Helsinki). Academic Track – Environmental Anxieties, 2017
  • Profile on Rosa Montero’s SF novels, EuroCon Convention Book. BCon, 2016
  • ‘The Invasion of the Body-Snatchers’ / ‘Stalker’ : Ciencia Ficción: Cien Películas Imprescindibles. JotDown Books, 2015

Selected Reviews:

  • ‘On Myth & Memory: Fen and Everything Under’, in Vol.1 Brooklyn
  • ‘Meet the venco’, Times Literary Supplement, no. 5659, p. 22
  • ‘Black Arts: The Manual of Darkness’, in The Times Literary Supplement, no. 5669, p. 19
  • ‘Spain’s great untranslated’, in The Times Literary Supplement, no. 5745, p. 27
  • ‘El perfume del cardamomo’, in The Times Literary Supplement, no. 5520, p. 26
  • ‘Como una historia de terror’, in The Times Literary Supplement, no. 5558, p. 51

TRANSLATIONS

Spanish into English (selected):

  • Zephyr | Céfiro, by Sofia Rhei, translated by: Marian Womack, Samovar: A Quarterly Journal of Speculative Fiction in Translation. Eds. Sara Dodd, 2025.
  • Second Death of the Father | La segunda muerte del padre, by Cristina Jurado, translated by Marian and James Womack, Samovar: A Quarterly Journal of Speculative Fiction in Translation. Eds. Sara Dodd, 2021.
  • The Big Book of Modern Fantasy. Vintage. Eds. Ann and Jeff VanderMeer, 2020. Contributor.
  • The Big Book of Classical Fantasy. Vintage. Eds. Ann and Jeff VanderMeer, 2019. Contributor.
  • The Big Book of Science Fiction. Vintage. Eds. Ann and Jeff VanderMeer, 2016. Contributor.
  • The Best of Spanish Steampunk. Cheeky Frawg/Ediciones Nevsky, 2015. Translator & Editor.
  • The Apex Book of World SF. Apex Books. Ed. Mahvesh Murad, 2015. Contributor.

English into Spanish (selected):

  • Amatka, by Karen Tidbeck. Fabulas de Albion, 2016. Translator.
  • A Nest of Nightmares, by Lisa Tuttle. Fabulas de Albion, 2015. Translator.
  • The King of Elfland’s Daughter, by Lord Dunsany. Alfabia, 2012. Translator.
  • Collected Ghost Stories, by Charles Dickens. Editorial Impedimenta, 2011. Co-translator.
  • The Doll, by Daphne Du Maurier. Fabulas de Albion, 2011, Translator.
  • Collected Gothic Stories by Mary Shelley. Paginas de Espuma, 2011. Translator & Editor.
  • Collected Gothic Tales. Paginas de Espuma, 2012. Translator & Editor.
  • Jagannath, by Karen Tidbeck. Fabulas de Albion, 2012, Co-translator.

ART COLLABORATIONS

Texts from Lost Objects featured in Justin Brice Guariglia’s installations Reduce Speed Now!  Commissioned by Somerset House to celebrate 2019 Earth Day. Nine large solar-powered LED signs, with texts from Greta Thunberg, Zadie Smith, Timothy Morton, among others.

 

 

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