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Thomas Ha

Writer of Speculative Fiction - Pretty Okay Dad - Spam Musubi Promoter

"Window Boy" (Reprint) Best American SFF (2024)

"St. Fario's Feast" New Edge Sword & Sorcery (2024)

"In That Crumbling Home" (Reprint) NoSleep Podcast (2025)

"Old Wells" Three-Lobed Burning Eye (2025)

"Window Boy" (Reprint) Nebula Showcase 59 (2025)

"Cry, the Carob King," Beneath Ceaseless Skies (2025)

"The Patron" The Sunday Morning Transport (2025)

"Window Boy" (Reprint) Cast of Wonders (2025)

"The Brotherhood of Montague St. Video" (Reprint) Nebula Showcase 60 (2025)

"The Mub" (Reprint) The Drabblecast (2025)

"Uncertain Sons" Uncertain Sons and Other Stories (2025)

"The Brotherhood of Montague St. Video" (Spanish Trans.) Cuentos Para Algernon (2025)

"The Sort" (Reprint) Best American SFF (2025)

"Alabama Circus Punk" (Reprint) The Best Weird Fiction of the Year (2025)

"The Brotherhood of Montague St. Video" (Reprint) Think Weirder

"House Traveler" (Reprint) Pseudopod (2025)

"Window Boy" (Reprint) Drabblecast (2025)

"The Sort" (Reprint) It's Story Time, w/Wil Wheaton (2025)

"The Folded Balloon" Simultaneous Times (2026)

"In My Country" and "Uncertain Sons" (Reprints) Nebula Showcase 61 (2026)

"On Planetary Palliative Care" (French Trans.) Bifrost (2026)

"In My Country" and "The Patron" (Reprints) BASFF (2026)

"Hold on Tight"

The Colored Lens (2020) — "Hold on Tight" The Colored Lens (2020)

"Where the Old Neighbors Go"

Metaphorosis (2020) — "Where the Old Neighbors Go" Metaphorosis (2020)

"Balloon Season"

Fusion Fragment (2020) — "Balloon Season" Fusion Fragment (2020)

"Horangi"

Cossmass Infinities (2021) — "Horangi" Cossmass Infinities (2021)

"A Compilation of Accounts Concerning the Distal Brook Flood"

Metaphorosis (2021) — "A Compilation of Accounts Concerning the Distal Brook Flood" Metaphorosis (2021)

"Where the Old Neighbors Go" (Reprint) Best Vegan Science Fiction & Fantasy 2020 (2021)

"Balloon Season" (Reprint) Dark Matter Magazine (2021)

"Where You Left Me" Lightspeed Magazine (2021)

"The Liminal Men" Dark Matter Magazine (2021)

"Where the Old Neighbors Go" (Reprint) The Year's Best Dark Fantasy And Horror Ed. by Paula Guran (2021)

"Where the Old Neighbors Go" (Reprint) PodCastle (2022)

"To People Who'd Never Known Good" Beneath Ceaseless Skies (2022)

"Horangi" The Future Fire Noir Anthology (Reprint, Print Version Only) (2022)

"Balloon Season" (Reprint) Pseudopod (2022)

"In That Crumbling Home" Bourbon Penn (2022)

"Our Quiet Guests"
Three-Lobed Burning Eye (2022) — "Our Quiet Guests" Three-Lobed Burning Eye (2022)

"The Liminal Men" (Reprint) Fusion Fragment (2022)

"The Liminal Men" (Reprint) Zero Dark Thirty (2023)

"For However Long" Khōréō Magazine (2023)

"On Planetary Palliative Care" Interzone Digital (2023)

"Balloon Season" (Reprint) NoSleep Podcast (2024)

"Behind the Gilded Door" Haven Spec (2024)

"The Brotherhood of Montague St. Video" Clarkesworld (2024)

"In That Crumbling Home" (Reprint)
Brave New Weird Vol. 2 (2024) — "In That Crumbling Home" (Reprint) Brave New Weird Vol. 2 (2024)

"On Planetary Palliative Care" (Spanish Trans.) Cuentos Para Algernon (2024)

"Window Boy" (Chinese Trans.) Science Fiction World (2024)

"Our Quiet Guests" (Reprint) NoSleep Podcast (2024)

Thomas Ha is a writer of speculative short fiction whose work has won the Nebula, Locus, and Philip K. Dick Award Special Citation. He has also been nominated for the Hugo, Ignyte, and Shirley Jackson Awards, among others. You can find his stories in publications including Clarkesworld, Lightspeed Magazine, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Weird Horror Magazine, and more. His work has also appeared in The Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy and The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror. His debut short story collection, Uncertain Sons and Other Stories, is available at Undertow Publications and wherever books are sold. Thomas grew up in Honolulu and, after a decade plus of living in the northeast, now resides in Los Angeles with his family.

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LOCUS AWARD WINNER

NEBULA AWARD WINNER (“Uncertain Sons” Novelette)

PHILIP K. DICK AWARD SPECIAL CITATION

BRAM STOKER AWARD® NOMINEE (“Uncertain Sons” Novelette)

BRITISH SCIENCE FICTION ASSOCIATION AWARD FINALIST

IGNYTE AWARD FINALIST (“Uncertain Sons” Novelette)

NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY BEST NEW HORROR 2025

Uncertain Sons and Other Stories, a debut short story collection of dark science-fiction, strange fantasy, and weird horror, from award-winning publisher Undertow Publications.

Featuring stories of familial love and trauma; societal and technological anxieties; identity and class; and alternate near-future irrealities.

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A.C. Wise at Locus Magazine recommends Gothic sci-fi novella, “Scion.”

“Uncertain Sons” (Novelette) is a finalist for the Ignyte Awards!

Locus Magazine Reviewer Maria Haskins recommends Bourbon Penn short story, “Middle Song.”

“Uncertain Sons” (Novelette) won the Nebula Award!

“Uncertain Sons” (Collection) and “In My Country” (Short Story) are Locus Award Winners!

“In My Country” originally published in Clarkesworld and “The Patron” originally published in The Sunday Morning Transport were selected for The Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy 2026, edited by Olivie Blake and John Joseph Adams!

Reviewer Tar Vol recommends “Middle Song.”

“In My Country” is a Hugo finalist!

Uncertain Sons and Other Stories (Collection), “Uncertain Sons” (Novelette), and “In My Country” (Short Story) are Locus Finalists!

Uncertain Sons and Other Stories is the special citation recipient for the 2026 Philip K. Dick Award!

“Uncertain Sons” is a Nebula Finalist for Best Novelette, and “In My Country” is a Nebula Finalist for Best Short Story!

Uncertain Sons and Other Stories is a BSFA Finalist for Best Collection!

Reactor Magazine recommends strange short fiction collections, including Uncertain Sons and Other Stories.

“Uncertain Sons,” the titular novelette in Uncertain Sons and Other Stories, is a Bram Stoker Award Nominee!

Uncertain Sons and Other Stories is a 2026 Philip K. Dick Award Nominee!

Reviewers at Strange Horizons, Jake Casella Brookins, Dan Hartland, Jacqueline Nyathi, and William Shaw, recommend Uncertain Sons and Other Stories in their 2025 Year-in-Review.

Ancillary Review of Books on Uncertain Sons and Other Stories:“[F]ans of speculative fiction of any substrata will find something to get hooked by here….Ha puts me in mind of Kelly Link for the almost inexcusable speed with which he invokes compelling characters, and of Julio Cortázar for the intricate and forceful strangeness of his stories.”

“The Sort” was featured on It’s Storytime with Wil Wheaton; “House Traveler,” came out in PseudoPod as well. Both fantastic audio productions.

Czech translation rights to Uncertain Sons and Other Stories sold to publisher Planeta9.

The Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy 2025, which includes “The Sort,” is now available at all major booksellers.

Uncertain Sons was recently highlighted as a “knockout short story collection” by Book Riot and one of the top 20 Horror books of 2025 by The New York Public Library. And is also on A.C. Wise’s favorite collections of 2025 list.

Uncertain Sons and Other Stories is now officially out in the world! Available wherever books are sold.

William Shaw at Strange Horizons calls Uncertain Sons and Other Stories: “[A]n engaging, kinetic, and profoundly well-crafted set of stories.”

Happy to announce I am now represented by Michael Curry at the Donald Maass Literary Agency!

Sam Reader of Strange Library reviews Uncertain Sons and Other Stories: “[S]trange, affecting, and beautiful….one of the best collections of the year.” Reviewer Tar Vol says, “If you like weird horror at all, don’t wait, preorder this collection immediately.”