Preponderance of Starry Beings

Samantha Edmonds is the author of the chapbooks The Space Poet and Pretty to Think So. Her work appears in the New York Times, Fourth Genre, Ninth Letter, Mississippi Review, and The Rumpus, among others. She is an assistant professor in the creative writing program at Berry College and lives in Rome, Georgia.

• Acknowledgments Star Stuff The Adventures of Earthgirl and Starboy Love Spell for Sort-of Virgins Mama Says Futureborn The Night Island Milk Collide White Dwarf Star Seeks Red Giant for Binary Orbit Galaxy Defenders Forever The Man and the Moon Mother, May I Go to the Shower Show That Which Alights Must Also Burn

"Edmonds masterfully combines the magic of space, science, mystery, wonder, and the weirdness of youth, all colliding into an incredible collection of stories. Evocative and ethereal, this book is anchored in the stars." - Amber Sparks, author of And I Do Not Forgive You: Stories and Other Revenges "Colliding the fabulist worlds of Calvino and Bender to create a literary tear in space/time, Edmonds draws readers closer to an event horizon where genre, adolescence, parenthood, and identity swirl in a maelstrom of almost becoming. These stories vibrate emotion and possibility amidst the fabric of the cosmos and mark the arrival of an imaginative talent that should be watched. Daring, often tragic, and filled with star stuff." -  Sequoia Nagamatsu, author of How High We Go in the Dark