Reneé Bibby (she/her) is a writer based in Tucson, Arizona. She teaches at The Writers Studio and Domestika. She writes micro fiction, flash, and short stories in a variety of genres.
Reneé knows things, and if you're lucky, she'll show you. She knows that "the sediment of soap scum is archaeology;" she understands the universal human heartbreak of "how many small dreams can be gotten rid of, just cockroaches on porcelain." To those lucky enough to be her readers and students, she has the power to bestow new eyes, a sharper vision with which to take in the full spectrum of sadness and laughter. Her aesthetic manifesto is a whisper as well as a shout.
Published Work
Speculative Fiction
Don’t Stop
Luna Station Quarterly, Issue 039
Than All the Treasures
The Worcester Review, Issue 37
Pushcart Prize Nominee
That Boy
Splice, Author Anthology, #1
Unfinished Equations
Fractured Lit Anthology, Vol. 3
What’s Done Can’t Be Undone
Five on the Fifth, Vol. 4, Issue 3
In Collaboration
writing with Lilian D. Vercauteren
We Drown the Night
Halfway Down the Stairs, Intuition Issue
Horror
Come and Eat These Wicked Meats
Flash Phantoms, September Story of the Month
Dad Believes in Shotguns
Club Plum, Vol. 5, issue 4
Greetings from Costa Rica
7th Circle Pyrite, Issue 4
If It Ever Calls Your Name
Nocturne Magazine, Volume 5
The Lake Holds No Light
Weird Lit, Volume 2, Issue 1
We are the Night, We are the Day
Syntax & Salt, Special Issue: Monsters, Myths, Legends, Fairytales
Creative Non-Fiction
Don’t Worry, the Dog Survives
Taco Bell Quarterly, Vol. 6
Best of the Net Nominee
My Hair Would Destroy You
Threadcount, Issue 17:Fall 21
Literary Fiction
64 Colors
Fiction Southeast
Wigleaf Top 50, Longlist, 2019
Best of the Boy Stuff
Third Point Press
Pushcart Prize Nominee
Loved
Thin Air, Vol. 21
Not Everybody Gets a Happiness Montage
Crack the Spine, Issue 105
Rabbit or the Wheel
Wildness, No. 5, Tranquility
Best Small Fictions Nominee
The Archaeologist
Black & Blue, City Issue
The Opposite of Drowning
Slush Pile Magazine, Issue 22
Trick Ride Glory
Prism International, 55:2/Winter 2017
Viva Peaches
The Worcester Review, Issue 37
What the Body Gives Up
Jade & Compass, Issue 2
Etc.
the Wilds
Reneé previously served as a contributing editor to the Wilds, a curated literary guide of Platypus Press. The daily showcase included weekly picks by Reneé. On indefinite hiatus, you can still read Reneé’s reviews here.