SFF & historical fiction author, reader, and lover of research rabbit holes. Red River Métis, she/her.
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Joined April 2014
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New story out! A contemporary survival story this time, filled with Great Gray owls and Manitoba blizzards and messy family dynamics galore. Read it now in Splinter Journal, Issue 5!
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#shortstories #manitobaowls #contemporaryfiction #mbwildlife
My mermaid-escaping-her-abusive-family story is now free to read!
augursociety.org/the-privile…
"We had never developed a word for Portugal."
My 1600s Dutch art historical fiction story, "The Veil," is reprinted now over at @gavagai and free to read!
Thanks again to @roanoke_rambler for being the first to publish it 😊
#dutchgoldenage #historicalficion #shortfiction
New story out! "Speechless" in @thismagca is all about the lengths Tora will go for her music and her art. But is anyone actually listening?
Read it for free here!
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#litfiction #canadianlit
#shortfiction
New story time 🧜🏽♀️ "The Privilege of Copper, the Price of a Scale" is out now in @TalesFeathers Vol. 4, about an exiled mermaid, estranged family, and the exploitation that can happen when you do what you love for a living.
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#fantasyshorts #mermaidsrevolt
Very happy to report that my SF "death by black hole" story, "Emergency Calls Only," was reprinted in the gorgeous "We're Here: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction 2024"!
Big thanks to editors Ryka Aoki and Charles Payseur for including my piece, to @mspencerdraws for the beautiful artwork-within-artwork, and to @analog_sf for being the first to publish "ECO" :)
My fantasy story "Birds of Fortune" is now out in audio at PodCastle! podcastle.org/2026/02/17/pod…
Big thanks to @zooscape_zine for originally publishing it last year 🦅 🔥
#shortstories #fantasyshorts #Griffin #Firebird
My new YA story “What Is Lost” is out now in @paperlanterns_lit.
Vianne, a WWII teen in occupied France, is thrilled when her brother returns—until a dying deserter forces her to choose between risking his life or sacrificing everything to save him.
👉 PaperLanternsLit.com!
SO pleased to be in this awesome volume of Canadian SFF again! 🚀 My zany sci-fantasy “Aunties-of-the-Known-Universe” story, "Once Upon a Planet," (orig. in @augursociety, also in @escapeartistspodcast) is now in Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy & SF, Vol. 3
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My story "From the River to the Moon" is out now on Ep. 767 of @StarShipSofa (orig. in @Analog_SF)!
Métis water protector Melody Leclayr hates the idea of living in space—but leaves Earth anyway, as the greatest gift she can give.
starshipsofa.com/blog/2025/1…
My story "Once Upon a Planet" is now out in audio 🔊
Check it out 👉 Ep. 1011 in @escapepodcast (originally out in @augursociety)
escapepod.org/2025/09/18/esc…
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“Birds of Fortune” by @KelHuttonAuthor from @zooscape_zine, “Diary of a High School Necromancer” by @spencerorey (@spencerorey.bsky.social) from Worlds of Possibility, and more short fic recs from @cypayseur.bsky.social - locusmag.com/2025/08/diaboli…
My reprint beads-in-space story "The Carina Nebula" is now out and free to read or listen to at @escapepodcast! Ep 998, June 19, 2025. 🚀
escapepod.org/2025/06/19/esc…
A while ago I read a news story about an eagle snatching up a baby red-tailed hawk. I figured, why not a griffin and firebird instead?
That spark became "Birds of Fortune," my latest story—now free to read at zooscape-zine.com/birds-of-f…. 🦅🦁🐦🔥
#ShortStories #AmWritingFantasy
Have I mentioned how much I love research rabbit holes? "Amtech Deep Sea Institute Thanks You for Your Donation" out now in @Analog_SF is inspired by ancient, toxic deep-sea pools... the perfect place for a story🌊🦑
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#scifi #flashfiction #deepsea
New story out! "House, Quartz, Home" in @OnSpecMagazine is my take on a haunted house story, set in an alien quartz home 😜. This is one of my #Metis-in-Space stories that have been published in @analog_sf. Subscribe at onspec.ca/current-issue/
My last story of 2024 is "The Veil," out now at The Roanoke Rambler. This one is historical fiction set in the 1600s Netherlands, with the son of an art dealer who realizes he's going blind. You can read it for free at roanokerambler.com/fiction-t…
#shortstory #writing #historical
ALT Screenshot of a page from the Roanoke Rambler website of the short story "The Veil," by Kelsey Hutton, published Dec 24, 2024, over a background of lush green countryside from outside Delft, The Netherlands. The preview of the short story reads: “I was born in the Dutch Republic in the year of our Lord, 1654. My earliest memory is of gripping a rain-bitten wood rail and watching, enrapt, the light play on the waters of the canals that were scattered throughout Delft. One bright ribbon would appear, then dance away to resurface in a different spot. The servants hated when I was caught in this fashion, since I would refuse to budge until, according to my nurse Gerde, all the fattiest cuts of beef were gone from the market.”
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Indigenous culture is set to leave its mark on the moon.
In 2025, NASA will launch a capsule featuring art by Indigenous artists into space—discover what’s inside and why it’s a historic milestone.
Watch live here: youtube.com/aptnnews