Ariel Marken Jack haunts a crooked house in the salty mouth of a river in Atlantic Canada alongside three small harps, one mysterious spouse, and a trio of shadow-fiends in feline form. Their fiction, essays, reviews, and interviews with other artists have appeared in a broad range of Canadian and international literary journals and magazines, anthologies, podcasts, and assorted other publications. Their literary work has been supported by creation grants from Arts Nova Scotia and the Canada Council for the Arts.

Forthcoming Short Fiction“Songs of Sinew, Sunset, and Sacrifice”
Cosmic Horror Monthly, date TBA“Pin Feathers”
YOUR BODY IS A FEVER DREAM, October 2026“The Lady of the House on Legs” (reprint)
Illustrated Worlds Magazine, Autumn 2026Published Original Short Fiction“Revenge Body”
Brink, May 2026“Friend Things”
FLESH, April 2026“Snow, Stars, Stone”
Heartlines Spec, November 2025“The Bread Boy”
Fictionable, February 2024“Tattered Places”
NonBinary Review, March 2024“The Lady of the House on Legs”
SCISSOR SISTERS, January 2024“Cire Perdue”
NO TROUBLE AT ALL, June 2023“Two for Tea”
The New Quarterly, April 2023“Work Orders”
Bikes in Space Vol. #9: Bicycles & Broomsticks, January 2023“What Is Owed and What Can Never Be”
Beneath Ceaseless Skies, January 2023“Sister, Silkie, Siren, Shark”
Strange Horizons, November 2022“Rare Providers”
Fusion Fragment, November 2022“Amanita muscaria”
Canthius, September 2022“The Bleak Communion of Abandoned Things”
PseudoPod, April 2022“Scintillae”
Dark Matter Magazine, March 2022“False Gills”
Uncharted Magazine, January 2022“Corvus conjurax”
Prairie Fire, April 2021

Reprinted Short Fiction"Sister, Silkie, Siren, Shark"
Terra Nova Scotia, May 2026"The Bread Boy"
THE YEAR'S BEST CANADIAN FANTASY & SCIENCE FICTION VOL. 3, October 2025"Cire Perdue"
Gamut Magazine, April 2024"Rare Providers"
PseudoPod, February 2024"The Bleak Communion of Abandoned Things"
THE YEAR'S BEST CANADIAN FANTASY & SCIENCE FICTION VOL. 1, December 2023"Scintillae"
DARK MATTER PRESENTS: ZERO DARK THIRTY, February 2023"Corvus conjurax"
Crow & Cross Keys, June 2022

Published Nonfiction“From the Archives,” Ariel's column reviewing speculative short stories published in years past, has recurred in Fusion Fragment since November 2021 (issues #9-27, ongoing)*Creation in Conversation, a series of interviews with artists local to Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia, Canada, ran in The Lunenburg Barnacle in the first half of 2025:Painter and digital artist Anne-Marie CosgrovePoet Cory LavenderPainter, musician, and performing artist Emily PowersPhotographer Caroline HaleMusician and multidisciplinary artist Jackie Stanley*“Eating Endings,” a column about speculative stories and sustenance, recurred on Psychopomp.com in 2023:On coffee and “Our Quiet Guests” by Thomas HaOn cherry pie and “Belly-Slitter” by H. Pueyo, and cherry pieOn fish pakoras and “Amma’s Kitchen” by Rati MehrotraOn pickled apples and “The Honey Witch” by Kathryn McMahonOn chocolate cake and “Bonesoup” by Eugenia Triantafyllou*Ariel's brief series of interviews with other speculative fiction writers and reviews of individual speculative magazine issues ran in the (now sadly defunct) online magazine Interzone Digital in 2022-2023:“Cycles Are the Greater Truth of Time: Tiffany Morris in conversation with Ariel Marken Jack”“A Review of Three-Lobed Burning Eye 39”“Refusing Extinction: E.G. Condé in conversation with Ariel Marken Jack”“The Human Heart of the Fantastic: Ai Jiang in conversation with Ariel Marken Jack”“Macabre Ventriloquism: Rebecca Campbell in conversation with Ariel Marken Jack”