Science fiction and fantasy writer currently based in Kjipuktuk, Nova Scotia.
Intro
Jimmy T Cahill is a non-binary writer exploring the intersection between science fiction, fantasy, and literary fiction. Their writing muses on speculative futures, queerness, death, and internet. Embracing utopian ideals, their stories focus on connection in the age of isolation, hope in the age of climate disaster, and ecstasis in the age of human restraint. Their work takes strong inspiration from José Esteban Muñoz’s Cruising Utopia: ‘Queerness is about the rejection of a here and now and an insistence on potentiality or concrete possibility for another world.’ Excerpts from Jimmy’s in progress works and links to past publications can be found below.
Jimmy’s writing has been featured in publications across North America including Jonathan Ball’s Why Poetry Sucks: an anthology of humorous experimental Canadian poetry. They were the recipient of the 2016 John Lent Poetry and Prose Award, and have seven chapbooks available including: Movement of the Triangle (Kalamalka Press, 2017), BORG EMOJI: robot sleep studies (Words On Pages, 2017), XYZZY (no press, 2017), ZUSE-80 (Inspiritus Press, 2018), BELIEF ENGINES (Spacecraft Press, 2018), THE SILLY ARCHIVE (no press, 2018), and Mickey The Brickey (Blasted Tree, 2020).
Bio
In Progress Works:
Project 01: Hyperland
Project 02: KARA: The Robot Princess
CV
In addition to the publication of their poetry and prose in several magazines and chapbooks, Jimmy T has edited and founded literary publications of their own. They brought forth four issues of dead gender magazine (2009-2012), and one offs of outlandish zine (2013), PALE BLUE DOT (2015), and PIZZA GOTH (2017). Jimmy has curated art shows and literary events across Southern Ontario including Homer’s Odyssey: A Simpsons Art Show which was featured on SpaceTV in 2014.
See their full CV here.
Past Works:
