Chris Dodds
Staff engineer. Writer. I poke at things until they make sense.
Necessary Cuts
My debut novella, winner of the 2026 Miami University Press Novella Prize. Forthcoming. You can read an interactive fragment while you wait.
Short Fiction
- A Good Mother — Crow & Cross Keys (forthcoming)
- Inheritance — Cowboy Jamboree, Issue 12.1 “Eagle-Eyed”
- Here's to a New You — Rawhead, Bloody Bones (forthcoming, Halloween 2026)
- Dog — BULL, 2026
Nonfiction
- Dip Cone — Claudine (forthcoming)
- Unknown Caller — Pithead Chapel, Vol. 15, Issue 8
- Triptych — Wordgathering, Vol. 20, Issue 1
- The Desert — Marrow Magazine, Issue 16 In print: Bookshop.org · Barnes & Noble · Amazon
Recognition
- Longlist, Fractured Lit 2025 Elsewhere Prize