Jeane' D. Ridges

Jeané D. Ridges

Stories

Strange Horizons
Stone of Madness
SISTORIES
khōréō
Seventh Wave
WoP Feb ‘25 & Antho 2
beestung
WoP Antho 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

Besides abundant with Southern melanin, Jeané D. Ridges is a food-serenading, ecos-admiring poetic storyteller creating in the speculative expanse and sometimes this so-called reality while living with systemic lupus.
They’re grateful for the space, together nurturing one another as well as our craft, offered by SISTORIES’s Luminary Editorial Incubator, Fellowship of the Griots, the Carbon Collective, Voodoonauts, Roots. Wounds. Words., and who they affectionately claim as the Shenaniganders.
Since 2023, they’ve been a copyeditor at khōréō. In 2026, they launched Spec Colorways In Verse, a newsletter/community space centering queer BIPOC spec poetry, with Lysz Flo and will teach “The Language of (Dis)ability & Chronic Illness in Speculative Fiction” for the Carl Brandon Society.
To connect with them and their work: jeanedridges.carrd.co | @jdridges (bsky).