books
Sara or 'I lived my life as a cloud that followed overhead' by Never Angeline Nørth
Coming August 17 2025 from Inside the Castle
Sara or 'I lived my life as a cloud that followed overhead' is a novel in fragments about a girl named Sara and her nameless dog. Sara was born to a mother who was a cloud of moths and a father who is a wolf for some reason. We follow the story of her, among other things, waking up inside a play, finding bears in her house, dying multiple times, going to outer space, and being milked while pretending to be a rat. Think of this as an expansion of Sara or the Existence of Fire made a decade later that is twice as long and turned into something new.
Rainbear!!!!!!!!! by Never Angeline N☼rth
2022, Apocalypse Party
Rainbear!!!!!!!!! is the story of a woman who lives in a coffee shop where she makes a job out of loving people while inventing worlds in her dreams. The coffee shop is staffed by a barista-cum-border-guard who people show up to stab every week. Later, the narrative channels 18th century Jewish folktales as she is told a bedtime story about two queer lovers, who are themselves then told a dreamlike, quasi-erotic tale of a pagan prophet without a home. In this way, narratives eat each other and turn inside out as stories are found within stories and new adventures are told by unexpected rainbow bears that are also mountains and pages of journals are found papered inside the nests of vomitbirds.
Sea-Witch by Never Angeline Nørth
2020, Inside the Castle
print or free digital.
Sea-Witch is a semi-autobiographical, dream-logic radical trans fantasy novel told in scribbles & nudes, bits & parts. Monsters are under ambient attack by the 78 men who cause pain. They take shelter in the body of a Witch-God named Sea-Witch. We learn about Sea-Witch's sisters, created by the primordial Dog-Witch. Angels & Aangels, drugs & fetish & ma(j)gic(k). Reality is fake, time is an illusion. Sea-Witch is not a creature that was born. She is a fire that was set. Come closer.
Careful Mountain by Sara June Woods
2016, Civil Coping Mechanisms / 2019, oh! map books
get print or pay-what-u-want digital
Careful Mountain is a kaleidoscope of nature, broken love poems, run-on sentences, and letters full of digressions that take on a life of their own. This volume has Woods/Angel/Nørth approaching lyric poetry but never quite letting it take hold. Featuring an 8-part poem titled Speckled Flowers that spills into the 16-part poem Warm Morning, that spills into a mess of romantic, broken, playful surrealist letters to various subjects and fictional characters. This book lives in a world of its own, and, as is usual for Woods/Angel/Nørth, makes gestures toward prior books (Sara or the Existence of Fire) and those to come (Sea-Witch).
Sara or the Existence of Fire by Sara Woods
2014, Horse Less Press / 2019, oh! map books
get print or pay-what-u-want digital
Sara or the Existence of Fire is a dreamy and strange prose-poem novella about a girl named Sara and her dog. Written pretransition, the author imagines a dream version of herself as she could be after transition while confusing danger seems to lurk around every corner. Sara or the Existence of Fire establishes many of the conventions that would be later referenced and explanded upon throughout both the Sea-Witch series and the poetry collection Careful Mountain.
Wolf Doctors by
2014, Artifice Books (out of print)
selected chapbooks/zines
its ok, ratdaughter (glass beach press, 2018, digital/print)
its ok, ratdaughter #2 (oh! map books, 2019, digital/print)
It's Okay Ratdaugher is an ongoing autobiographical experimental comic zine about transition, family, alienation and loss told through grayscale scribbles, doodles and tracings.
~yr various hairlessnesses~ (oh! map books, 2015, digital)
Originally part of an unfinished project where the author wrote custom epistolary poems to people who contributed money for her laser hair removal at the beginning of her transition, this digital chapbook is full of wandering one-way correspondance and dreamlike digressions. A sylistic companion to the letter-poems in the third section of Careful Mountain.
Cloudbusting (audio chapbook, Black Cake Records, 2014)
stonepoems with Carrie Lorig (solar ▲ luxuriance, 2014)
rootpoems with Carrie Lorig (Radioactive Moat Press, 2013)