writer & editor
J. L. KIES
J. L. Kies is a queer and disabled Canadian writer, editor, and sensitivity reader who's passionate about stories inherently dark—whether by genre or theme. Their work has appeared in Periwinkle Pelican, juice, Rooted in Rhetoric, and the Queer Joy Anthology, and is forthcoming in Disability Ways:An Anthology About Disability Gain by d/Deaf and Disabled Writers from Arts AccessAbility Network Manitoba.They have read and edited for the University of Winnipeg's print journal juice, online magazine VERDANT, and are currently taking freelance clients.
FICTION
↠ Queer Joy Anthology (ebook & print)
The Shade of You;
The Stomach of the Earth
↠ juice, vol. 23 (print only)
↠ Periwinkle Pelican (online)
↠ Rewrite the Stars (online)
Subway Tiles;
Things That Shine at Midnight; CONGRADULACERATIONS;
The Main Attraction
↠ Litmora (defunct)
NON-FICTION
A Little Bit of Hair
↠ forthcoming june 2026
Let it Steep
↠ Moonbow Magazine (defunct)
↠ Rooted in Rhetoric (online)
POETRY
↠ Queer Joy Anthology (ebook & print)
& tomorrow she'll kill again
↠ juice, vol. 23 (print only)
the snack that satisfies
↠ Litmora (defunct)
© 2026 J. L. Kies