Anju Imura

井邑杏樹

/ã̠nd͡ʑɨᵝ imɯ̟ᵝɾa̠/ || Year of the Ox || SFF writer

Art by 清水航, 吉村誠司, 松岡歩, M

About

Japanese-Italian writer born in Frankfurt, raised in London, and then raised in Frankfurt again, where they currently reside. When not ambitiously reworking East Asian history into fiction, they brew bitter green tea while musing about the creative process and picking apart the imagination of Hayao Miyazaki.

  1. I believe in the subversive and transformative power of fiction

  2. to speculate means to reimagine different presents, attainable futures

  3. science fiction is all-encompassing and a mode: i think about contexts and why characters happen to be in them

  4. horror is cathartic, fantasy can be critical in its entrappings

  5. divest, redress, empower

'Decolonise your Imagination, Decentre from the West'

  • Adult silkpunk epic

  • a-spec normative world

  • historical antiquity with postcolonial attitudes

  • so let's talk empire, war, reparations

  • furthering the Miyazakian agenda of animist eco-philosophy

  • hidden darkpunk and post-apocalyptic vibes

...for those who like

A Memory Called Empire, The Dandelion Dynasty, Annihilation
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, Princess Mononoke

  • adult mythical speculative fiction

  • buddhpunk and ribopunk attitudes

  • mythopoeic reclamation of autonomy

  • westworldian tendencies within inner palaces

  • transformation, transmutation, extirpation

...for those who loved

Land of the Lustrous, Circe, Nirvana in Fire
The Bone Orchard, The Empress of Salt and Fortune

A few things More

  • third/fourth culture kid | biracial

  • Aroace, agender-spec (romance-averse, sex-repulsed)

  • They/them | she/hers for mutuals

  • Eng・日本語・It・DE OK

  • maybe an aro-ace theorist in the making

  • A Memory Called Empire, Sapphic Golden Trifecta, The Singing Hills Cycle & the Southern Reach trilogy, The poppy war, the sword of kaigen, a psalm for the wild-built

  • eeaao | Nirvana in Fire | Forest of Secrets | Arrival | nope | Uehashi Nahoko | The Expanse | The Red Sleeve | Miyazaki Hayao & studio ghibli | hikari no ou

  • sffh short fiction || Hisaishi Joe & Kawai Kenji scores || japanese & east asian studies || transculturality || punk genres and attitudes || ecocriticism || all the -topias

Being Ace:
An Anthology of Queer, Trans, Femme, and Disabled Stories of Asexual Love and Connection

Out 10.10.2023

Discover the infinite realms of asexual love across sci-fi, fantasy, and contemporary storiesFrom a wheelchair user racing to save her kidnapped girlfriend and a little mermaid who loves her sisters more than suitors, to a slayer whose virgin blood keeps attracting monsters, the stories of this anthology are anything but conventional. Whether adventuring through space, outsmarting a vengeful water spirit, or surviving haunted cemeteries, no two aces are the same in these 14 unique works that highlight asexual romance, aromantic love, and identities across the asexual spectrum.