The Maenad's Bone Garden

 Most recent  published work - Alienation & Hue in Unstable , available from Querencia Press.   Two images from Unstable (2025 Querencia Press) Unstable (2025, Querencia Press) If you wish to support the artist  patreon ko.fi  itch.io pay pal  venmo also my most recent collection is still available, electronically and in print, from kith books Flying the Jolly Scarlet, Gambling with the Gods:  Depositions on Capitalism, Piracy, Death, Money, Sex, and Work Print e book My erotic liberation collection the Ishtar Cycle , published in 2021 by Lupercalia press is now available from our online stores patreon link   Ko Fi link Socials  BSky   Instagram    

  Gwendolyn Harper (She/They) sometimes writing as the Maenad is the author of The Ishtar Cycle (2021), and Flying the Jolly Scarlet Gambling with the Gods (2023) Their anthology work has appeared in Unstable!, True Grit, Bone Milk Vol 2 and Vulcanalia 21. Work has appeared at ZiN Daily, Writers Resist, 365 Tomorrows, the World History Encyclopedia, Beyond the Underground, and Cream Scene Carnival. She has also been published in the Fahmidan Journal, Corporeal, Troublemaker Firestarter, and Engendered. Best of the Net Nominee 2023. Columnist at Cream Scene Carnival. They have read for the Farside Review. Founder/publisher Dreaming Gynoid Studio, author of the Galaxy Black RPG Editor & Publisher of the Sub-ether zine since 2020 A queer, disabled, angry punk Goddess, Gwendolyn writes about trauma, sex, politics, pop culture, science fiction, history, space, and sex work. They have lived experience of homelessness, intimate partner violence, drug abuse and addiction as we...

This past week it has been my distinct pleasure to be featured @tales.from.the.underground allowing me to show off some of my newest work.   It’s been a blast but today is our last installment.   Be sure to look for my amusing essay The (white) American Experience and the Music of Lana Del Rey in the coming weeks. FOLLOW them @ https://beyondtheunderground.com/ And on IG @tales.from.the.underground   to not miss   or any of the other great work they are posting daily.   Monday’ s selection was So thoroughly reduced ( White Savior )   Tuesday we brought you Suburban Cage Match.   Wednesday I am Renovated Weight Thursday Sometimes release only requires exposure of the hollow spaces beneath the surface   Patching DryWalls   On Friday, the piece presented is in many ways the centrepiece of this lot.  Is she trapped or precisely where she wants to be? XII the Hanging Whore   Today brings my series o...

 Darken the lamps and begin the howl, Bring the sacrifice, It is time to dance. The Ishtar Cycle is now available from Lupercalia press Magnificent cover image by Embry Valentino The limited print run of The Ishtar Cycle is available for pre-order until they run out 

  Where you can find my work   (updated 8.20.21) As Gwendolyn Harper Wicked Gay Ways   Fall 2020 Handfuls of Hair https://www.wickedgayways.org/new-page-62   Red Planet Magazine   Spring 2021              Sapphire Rain             https://www.redplanetmagazine.com/poetry   Featured Writers project,   Maenadum no. 2              May 2021 Madwomen in the Attic I’m loose Sleep of Waking Family Circle Be Free like Me A thought in the key of uncertainty Keymaster (Vol 2 p 24) The Girl Who Was a Knife Because you are not them Margins Free the Beat Proud scared angry little boys Words Daily Prayer and Malediction Why I am not a quiet girl https://madintheattic.org/2021/05/17/gwendolyn-harper/   Fahmidan Journal,   “Issue 6: Autoimmune & Mental...

No not that kind of naked.   However,  I’m a disenfranchised transgender writer, poet, and artist. I pour my soul into everything I do but I’ve got mountains of legal & health care needs.  It would be super awesome if you would consider looking at or supporting any of my work Games work content goes up Mondays irregularly at the Dreaming Gynoid studio blog   and on Thursdays twice monthly (minimum) on my Patreon You can buy my games stuff in digital from the  Dreaming Gynoid storefront Maenadum  verse and poetics are available here for gratis although even the smallest donations would be greatly appreciated.  Unless you just hate it I guess.  Paypal me Buy me a coffee  You can also support me on my Ko-fi page – I can take short or simple commissions (writing, modeling, light  proofreading,*simple* custom videos) easily there after some negotiation. Right now my plate is pretty full though.  Generally I would rather work ...