Jeane' D. Ridges

Jeané D. Ridges

Stories

Tales from the Cryptids
Strange Horizons
Stone of Madness
SISTORIES
khōréō
Seventh Wave
WoP Feb ‘25 & Anth. 2
beestung
WoP Anth. 1
WoP June ‘23
$wrk: [inhale\exhale\inhale\exhale\inhale\exhale] (Essay) — Now Sunsetted Apparition Lit's Issue #21: Dread ; img: artist Edith Silva is "'drawn to the macabre' with her work focused on 'both the beauty and unsettling sides of the natural world'"$
Apparition Lit
Anathema Poetry Iss.
$wrk: "Vanishings\Evokings\ Lingerings\Breath" (Visual Verse | Breathwork-Exploration) — Originally Published in the Now Sunsetted Neon Door's Exhibit Nudity ; img: ombre background night blue into dark pink, multicolored and semi-glinting worlds$
O.P. Neon Door
Anathema Iss. 14

Ingredients of Import

tea tree oil
wonderin’
tenderness
oniony, peppery yellow grits or crispy, aromatic roasted red potatoes (when the South ain’t blazin’)
pluriversal being & dreaming

Bio-Shaped Thingy

Jeané D. Ridges is a poetic storyteller, living with systemic lupus and writing what is as abundantly melanated, Southern, ill, and food fixated as themself; which has, of late, involved shaping as well as moving with wondrous, otherwise creatures and expanses across more pages Since 2023, they’ve been a copyeditor at khōréō. In 2026, they launched Spec Colorways In Verse, a zine slash community space centering queer BIPOC spec poetry, with Lysz Flo and taught “The Language of (Dis)ability & Chronic Illness in Speculative Fiction” for the Carl Brandon Society. They’re grateful to be in community with many phenomenal tellers, poets, weavers of words, including the Carbon Collective, Subtext, Fellowship of the Griots, and Codex. To connect with them and their work: @jdridges (bsky) & jeanedridges.carrd.co.