Margaret Killjoy Explained

Margaret Killjoy
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Margaret Killjoy is an American author, musician, and podcast host. She is best known for her speculative fiction in the steampunk and folk horror genres, in particular for her two-book Danielle Cain series. Killjoy is involved in several musical projects across genres, including black metal, neofolk, and electronica. She founded the feminist black metal band Feminazgûl in 2018.

Life

Killjoy is an anarchist, feminist, and anti-fascist. She is a transgender woman. Killjoy spent much of her early adult life as a "squatter and wanderer", then in the late 2010s began building a small cabin in the Appalachian Mountains on an anarchist land project.[1]

Career

Writing

Killjoy's fiction writing includes queer anarchist steampunk and folk horror. Killjoy published What Lies Beneath the Clock Tower, a steampunk interactive novel, in 2011.[2] In 2017, Killjoy published the first of two books in the Danielle Cain series, which features a group of genderqueer, anarchist demon hunters in the American heartland. In the first novella, The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion, the group is hunted by a demon that appears in the form of a stag.[3] The second book in the series, The Barrow Will Send What It May, follows members of the same group as they run from the events of the first book. The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion was nominated for a Shirley Jackson Award in 2017.[4] [5] The Barrow Will Send What It May was nominated in the 31st Lambda Literary Awards for the Lambda Literary Award for Speculative Fiction.[6] Killjoy contributed the short story "We Won't Be Here Tomorrow" to A Punk Rock Future, a 2019 anthology of speculative science fiction and fantasy.

Killjoy has also edited and written non-fiction works, including the 2009 book Mythmakers & Lawbreakers: Anarchist Writers on Fiction (AK Press), a collection of interviews with anarchist authors of fiction including Ursula K. Le Guin and Alan Moore.[7] She also was an editor of SteamPunk Magazine, which was in print from 2007 to 2016.[8]

Music

Killjoy founded the feminist black metal band Feminazgûl in 2018.[9] She released the band's first EP, The Age of Men Is Over, as a solo project the same year. Joined by Laura Beach as lead vocalist and Meredith Yayanos as violinist and theremin player, the band released its first full-length album, No Dawn for Men, in 2020.[10]

Killjoy is involved in several other musical projects: neofolk Alsarath, blackened doom Vulgarite, and electronica Nomadic War Machine.

Podcasting

Killjoy hosts the anarchist survivalist podcast Live Like the World Is Dying.[11] She launched her history podcast Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff, described as highlighting "complex stories of resistance that offer lessons and inspiration for us today," on May 2, 2022 at IHeartRadio.[12]

Written works

Fiction

Non-fiction

Discography

Alsarath

Feminazgûl

Nomadic War Machine

Vulgarite

External links

Notes and References

  1. Killjoy. Margaret. George Parr. Inside Margaret Killjoy of Feminazgûl's Self-Built Home in the Woods. Astral Noize. March 31, 2020. June 25, 2021. June 25, 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210625191332/https://astralnoizeuk.com/2020/03/31/inside-margaret-killjoy-of-feminazguls-home/. live.
  2. Web site: Colyard. K. W.. December 31, 2018. 20 Books Like 'Black Mirror: Bandersnatch' To Read After You Finally Finish It. live. June 24, 2021. Bustle. en. June 24, 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210624230751/https://www.bustle.com/p/20-books-like-black-mirror-bandersnatch-to-read-after-you-finally-finish-it-15577930.
  3. Web site: Liptak. Andrew. April 7, 2018. Margaret Killjoy's Danielle Cain books are razor-sharp anarchist urban fantasies. live. June 24, 2021. The Verge. en. June 24, 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210624225741/https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/7/17205838/margaret-killjoy-danielle-cain-books-fantasy-review.
  4. Web site: Stubby the Rocket. May 10, 2018. The 2017 Shirley Jackson Awards Nominees have been Announced. live. June 24, 2021. Tor.com. en-US. June 24, 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210624231411/https://www.tor.com/2018/05/10/announcing-the-nominees-for-2017-shirley-jackson-award-honoring-dark-fantasy-horror-and-suspense/.
  5. Web site: Dunn. Thom. October 9, 2020. This new fiction anthology is punk as f*ck. live. June 24, 2021. Boing Boing. en-US. June 24, 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210624231744/https://boingboing.net/2019/10/09/this-new-fiction-anthology-is.html.
  6. Web site: March 7, 2019. 31st Annual Lambda Literary Award Finalists -. live. June 24, 2021. Lambda Literary. en. August 15, 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210815071712/https://lambdaliterary.org/2019/03/31st-annual-lammy-finalists/.
  7. Web site: Baker. Jeff. February 27, 2010. Northwest Writers at Work: Ursula K. Le Guin is 80 and taking on Google. live. June 25, 2021. Oregon Live. en. May 11, 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210511042554/https://www.oregonlive.com/books/2010/02/northwest_writers_at_work_ursu.html.
  8. Web site: Allegra. 2016. Steampunk Magazine » Final Ever Issue! (and funding drive). dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20190118205810/http://www.steampunkmagazine.com/2016/01/1898/. January 18, 2019. June 25, 2021. SteamPunk Magazine.
  9. Web site: Kelly. Kim. November 12, 2020. Inside Heavy Metal's Battle Against White Supremacy. live. June 22, 2021. Esquire. en-US. August 29, 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210829022945/https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/music/a34633291/heavy-metal-nazi-anti-fascist-movement/.
  10. Web site: Kendrick. Monica. April 17, 2020. Feminazgûl spins anarchy, feminism, and literature into atmospheric black metal on No Dawn for Men. live. June 22, 2021. Chicago Reader. en. June 24, 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210624205800/https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/feminazgul-spins-anarchy-feminism-and-literature-into-atmospheric-black-metal-on-no-dawn-for-men/Content?oid=79287105.
  11. Web site: Sugar. Rachel. December 29, 2020. Are we doomed? An investigation. June 24, 2021. Vox. en. July 17, 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210717085216/https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/22201977/2020-doomsday-apocalypse-astrologers-memes-investigation. live.
  12. magpiekilljoy . 1504877798015606791 . on May 2, my new podcast is launching on @coolzonemedia. it's called Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff. it's about... cool people... who did cool stuff. come for the history of revolt, stay for the, i don't know, more history of revolt..
  13. Web site: We Won't Be Here Tomorrow . August 15, 2023 . AK Press.
  14. Web site: Escape from Incel Island . July 11, 2024 . . en.

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