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

Surrealist image of an astronaut sitting on a lawn chair inside of a window display with trees and Rodeo shop reflected in the image

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

Mural of three rabbits wearing suits, regarding the viewer with disdain

In Collaboration

writing with Lilian D. Vercauteren

We Drown the Night

Halfway Down the Stairs, Intuition Issue

Steal the Show

For Page & Screen

Close up of a skull of a canid animal with mouth open to the viewer

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

Pink, neon sign of the words "You Made Me Love You"

Romance

Mood Booster

Miniskirt Magazine, Issue 26

Best of the Net Nominee

Surrealist image of a monkey statue wearing a mask and a straw hat

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

Closeup of a box of Camel menthol cigarettes tucked into the iron filigree of a garden gate

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.