James K. Moran’s fiction and poetry have appeared in various Canadian, American and British publications, including Burly Tales: Finally Fairy Tales for the Hirsute and Hefty Gay Man, Bywords, Glitterwolf: Halloween, Chasing the Moon: The Magazine of Misfit Stories, Empty Mirror Magazine. Icarus, On Spec, Postscripts to Darkness 3, and The Rolling Darkness Revue. His short-fiction collection Fear Itself, resplendent with queer characters, and his small-town Canada horror novel Town & Train featuring bi protagonist Constable David Forester were published by Lethe Press. Moran was a freelance contributor for Xtra (née Capital Xtra! in 1993) for over 15 years. Moran’s reviews and articles have also appeared in various media, including CBC Radio, the Ottawa Citizen and Rue Morgue.

In 2012, with Sean Moreland, he founded the Little Workshop of Horrors, an Ottawa writers’ group that carves speculative and literary work into the shape it is meant to be. Moran also runs Queer Speculations, which workshops LGBTQIA+ or queer-themed stories from far and wide.

Find him at jameskmoran.blogspot.ca and reviewing for Arc Poetry Magazine, Plenitude and Strange Horizons. Also at @jametheballadeer.bsky.social Bluesky, jamestheballadeer Instagram, and @jkmoran X/Twitter.

Moran lives and dreams in Ottawa, on the unceded Territory of the Anishinabe Algonquin Nation.