An Interview with MJ Lyons

I recently had a chance to chat with MJ Lyons about his ongoing speculative fiction writing and his exploration of fabulous smut. I think there is so much power in the ability to explore the fantastic and the unabashedly sexy, and am excited that I was able to hear from MJ about his work, including his latest work Queer Werewolves Destroy Capitalism. Of course, we didn’t just stick to talking about smut, we also talked about capitalism and the need for Queer voices in fiction as well as exploring some key and problematic tropes in literature.

MJ Lyons is a writer and game maker. His debut novel, Murder at the World’s Fair, was published by Renaissance Press, and his collection of queer erotica short stories, QUEER WEREWOLVES DESTROY CAPITALISM, was published by Microcosm Publishing in spring 2021, the first entry in their “Queering Consent” series, which was also nominated for a Lambda Literary award. He occasionally publishes zines and chapbooks by emerging LGBTQ artists under the name Goblin Cat. You can follow him on Instagram or Bluesky at mjlyonswrites.

Any of these links:

https://www.ursulakleguin.com/nbf-medal

https://bsky.app/profile/mjlyonswrites.bsky.social

https://www.instagram.com/mjlyonswrites
https://microcosmpublishing.com/catalog/books/12924

https://renaissance-107765.square.site/product/murder-at-the-world-s-fair/114