Ashe Olivier Deng
horror / dark fantasy author and freelance editor
Student Living
“Student Living” is something of a love letter to the makeshift nature of living on a budget as a student. It’s bleary-eyed mornings and caffeine fueled nights with our faces slammed against readings and lecture notes. I wanted to write something that encompassed my love of that experience while also reflecting all the ways it felt, y’know, just a little off.Published at Nightmare Magazine
Dehiscent
DEHISCENT is an Eco-Horror tale of a future that has practically arrived, and the humanity that lurks in the most inhuman of places.“A fresh and delicious take on the haunted house…a breathtaking mosaic of powerful themes… Deng’s astonishing debut is a modern classic in the making."
• Kelsea Yu, author of Bound Feet
about
Ashe Olivier Deng (鄧彩雲) | 🇨🇦 🇨🇳 🇯🇲 | Canadian-born Chinese-Jamaican writer with a love of fantasy and all things Gothic. She studied biochemistry with a particular interest in making accessible the often-cryptic world of science and medicine. When not writing, she spends her spare time overthinking society and culture and genre fiction. Her work can be found at Fireside Magazine, Nightmare Magazine, Augur Magazine, and elsewhere.
bibliography
Books
• Dehiscent (Tenebrous Press, August 2023)Short Fiction•"Alone and Away" (Kaleidotrope, forthcoming)
•"Student Living" (Nightmare Magazine, September 2023)
•“The House at the End of the World” (Augur Magazine, November 2021)
• “Dégustation” (Nightmare Magazine, June 2020)
• “Sun, Moon, and Wretched Star” (Fireside Magazine, April 2020)
• “The Seafarer” (part of Scourge of the Seas of Time (and Space) by Queen of Swords Press)Poetry• Confront, Embrace (Canto Cutie, Volume V)
• (e)(im)migrate (Ottawa Design Club, Zine 0004)
• Conquest, As Seen by the City (The Gravity of the Thing, Spring 2022)
• Questions to Grow Up On (Fireside Magazine, July 2019)Non-Fiction• "A (Brief) Love Letter to the Chemistry of Molecules" (Clarkesworld Magazine)
• “Sci-Fi Has a Cure Problem” (SFWA Blog)
• “Because There's More than Just Motivation” (Public Neurodiversity Support Center)
editing
I am currently available for 1 project of 50k words or more. Thank you for understanding.I primarily work with fiction editing, including developmental editing, copy or line editing, general critiques on beta reads, and sensitivity reading for manuscripts. Critiques of novel and novella-length work tends to average 1k of feedback for every 25k of manuscript. Non-fiction work will also be considered.Fiction• Short fiction to novel-length (>3k words, upper limit negotiable)
Fantasy and all its subgenres, science fiction, and horror
• Adult fiction only, please (I am sadly not well-versed in YA)
• Sensitivity reading: I can read for East Asian diaspora, Caribbean diaspora, bisexuality, autism
• In general, my rates are $60 CAD / 10k words of manuscript. Copy and line editing vary (approx $0.01CAD/word).Non-fiction• General article writing
• Biomedical sciences for general audiencesPlease to contact me via the form on my website for any considerations.