Writer & Inkblot Artist
Horror fantasist and inkblot artist E.M. Markoff is a detribalized Nepantlera who creates within a de/colonized world. She has a passion for writing diverse fiction that explores family bonds and using surreal art as a visual storytelling tool.
THE STRENGTH OF FAMILY BONDS
THE ELLDERET SERIES
Moenda is a land where the past grates on open wounds, where people forget themselves in their struggle not to pick at the scabs in their hearts. The ruling power, the Ascendancy, used genocide to gain power, exterminating the Deadbringers, whose ancestral ability to raise the dead made them easy to vilify. Now the next dance begins, as an uneasy peace teeters on the edge…
Amid the hatred lives a teenage boy and his uncle—Kira and Eutau Vidal. Forced to lead double lives to survive, their tranquility is threatened by the arrival of someone knocking on their door. Each makes a promise to protect the other from harm, to protect their family bond, even as the strength of that bond is tested by the troubles of the land.
GOSSIP IS THE SWIFTEST BIRD ALIVE
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The interpersonal conflicts are some of the best I've ever encountered.
— RedStarReviews, for The Deadbringer
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Well-written, heart-warming and sometimes genuinely spooky.
— Amazon review of The Faceless God-Part One: Spirits & Ash
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An expansive, edgy genre piece whose earnest familial theme shines.
— Kirkus Reviews, for To Nurture & Kill
MIL PENAS: INK MADE FLESH
