j/j hastain is a collaborator, writer and maker of things. j/j performs ceremonial gore. Chasing and courting the animate and potentially enlivening decay that exists between seer and singer, j/j simply hopes to make the god/dess of stone moan and nod deeply through the waxing and waning seasons of the moon.

j/j hastain is the inventor of The Mystical Sentence Projects and is author of several cross-genre books including the trans-genre book libertine monk (Scrambler Press), Apophallation Sketches (MadHat Press, forthcoming), Luci: a Forbidden Soteriology (Black Radish Books), The Non-Novels (forthcoming, Spuyten Duyvil) and The Xyr Trilogy: a Metaphysical Romance of Experimental Realisms. j/j’s writing has most recently appeared in Caketrain, Trickhouse, The Collagist, Housefire, Bombay Gin, Aufgabe, and Tarpaulin Sky.

“Copulatory Lock,” “Horns,” “Amiss and Amok,” and “Memoir Recalls” – FLAPPERHOUSE #4 (Winter 2015)

“Weight Of The World On My Shoulders Or Weight Of The World In Her Shudder,” “Plight,” “Saving Earthworms In My Mountain Cave,” and “1930’s Butches Referred To Themselves As Stallions” – FLAPPERHOUSE #5 (Spring 2015)

excerpts from Priest/ess 4 – FLAPPERHOUSE #9 (Spring 2016)

“Never Be Stuck” (with Juliet Cook) – FLAPPERHOUSE #13 (Spring 2017)

“How to Grow Rat Teeth” and “The Moon Made Out of Bloated Cheese” (with Juliet Cook) – FLAPPERHOUSE #19 (Fall 2018)