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K. Ibura is a writer, painter, and traveler from New Orleans, Louisiana. The middle child of five, she grew up in a hardscrabble neighborhood with oak and fig trees, locusts and mosquitoes, cousins and neighbors. K. Ibura's work delves into spheres of human liberation, human connection, and evolution. She employs speculative fiction and creative nonfiction to take readers through mind-bending journeys into the transcendent, the mystical, and the fantastic.
Reviews
The Next Best Book Blog: Page 69 Test
When the World Wounds is my second short story collection, in which I explore the dark, the sensual, and the mysterious. The three stories, two novelettes and one novella collected in When the World Wounds examine the tumultuous nature of the human condition through such wild imaginings as sensual encounters with deer, escapism in a… »
Bogi Reads the World: 2016 SFF Novella Recommendations
New Orleans after the Katrina flood, with ghosts – or are they? – Mardi Gras dancers, death and the difficult process of rebirth. This is a story that does not shy away from destruction of a perfectly non-fantasy sort, and examines in great detail how natural disasters can further amplify preexistent inequalities… but it is… »
Medium.com: Three Quarters Wolf Moon
A few pages into “The Pull of the Wing,” one of the stranger stories in K. Ibura’s very strange collection When the World Wounds, the “message-center” of the protagonist, WaLiLa, pulses, as it calculates “the risk at getting caught” trying to sneak into the chamber of the elders. The result? “Two slivers less than three-fourths moon.”
Seattle Review of Books: The Future Alternative Past: Besties
When the World Wounds (Third Man Books) is K. Ibura’s second short fiction collection. Her first,Ancient, Ancient, won the 2012 Tiptree Award with its fantastical and exuberantly sensual depictions of nonstandard gender roles. In language as richly raunchy as ever, she writes here of sentient wolves on the prowl, swamp witches caught up into the sky… »
Locus.com: New & Notable Books, December 2016
This debut collection by the one of our most original and dazzling new talents, author of Tiptree Award winner Ancient, Ancient, gathers six unforgettable stories of dystopian prisons, volcano women, wars between gods, and desolate contemporary landscapes.
Writing While Distracted: Review: When the World Wounds
In October I had the good fortune to meet K. Ibura at a writer’s conference. She gave a wonderful keynote address and I was able to spend some time with her talking about our mutual love of short stories and travel. Her latest collection of short fiction When the World Wounds (2016) is as seductive as her first… »
Modern Griots: When the World Wounds
BREAKING OPEN THE BOUNDARIES OF SELF Who we think we are is a fluid concept. We might have a stable image of ourselves but in reality we are constantly in flux as we come into contact and collide with others. And it’s not just other bodies but other possibilities of your self that disrupts who… »
Bogi Reads the World: When the World Wounds by K. Ibura
I really enjoy K. Ibura’s writing, so when I heard that she’d soon have a new collection out, I started to spread the word about the preorder right away. The author sent me an ebook ARC, but I ended up just buying the physical book myself, because I read the beginning and felt that I wanted… »
B R Sanders Reviews Ancient, Ancient
Salaam is a lovely, poetic writer. From her language choice to the actual structure of the stories themselves, most of the stories in this collection are lyrical and haunting.
11 Sci-Fi Books Every Woman Should Read
You might call K. Ibura something more like a “sci-fi erotica writer.” All of her stories in Ancient, Ancient are tied up in sexuality. From the story about time travel as punishment to the one about aliens who feed on human sexual energies, each story is doused in sexuality and identity, not unlike our own real… »