Rivers Solomon

Rivers Solomon (born 1989) is an American author.

Quotes

 * Part of me wonders if I should’ve labelled by characters according to contemporary definitions of gender and sexuality so there’d be no doubt in anyone’s mind. To me, all of these labels are context dependent and therefore it does not feel authentic or organic to use words that have developed out of our contemporary discourse to describe my characters…
 * On whether fae should use traditional labels of gender in “An Interview with Author Rivers Solomon" in Intellectual Freedom Blog (The Office for Intellectual Freedom of the American Library Association; 2018 Oct 10)


 * Once upon a time I wrote the way a very young child draws, with absolute confidence that the work is genius. A splotch of colour there. A smear. Spirals and zigzags. Exploration and process are at the heart of art when we are only beginning. My writing has always been intentional. Both intensity of feeling and lushness of language have been primary goals of mine from the get go, but it did not always involve this level of anxiousness, of desperation…
 * On how faer writing style has evolved in “2019 Contest: Interview with Fiction Judge Rivers Solomon” in BWR (University of Alabama; 2019 Apr 17)


 * It probably won’t surprise anyone to hear me say that boundaries between genres are not borders to be respected so much as walls to tear down. I can’t imagine being a writer of only one genre, and I find that most of the time, even works that I’m writing to fit a particular genre are influenced by my experience of other genres. I think that everything I write is “literary,” but we also have to understand that these terms have marketing implications and so on…
 * On straddling various genres in “2019 Contest: Interview with Fiction Judge Rivers Solomon” in BWR (University of Alabama; 2019 Apr 17)


 * I’ve been really intrigued by the idea of the end of the world — how it’s never really real, though it may feel like it is to us living in the midst of climate change as we are. Except on the scale of billions of years, according to the kind of timeline where suns birth and die and so on, worlds are quite adaptive creatures. Earth has had five or so ice ages. Dinosaurs have come and gone, many dying, others living on as birds. Mass extinction is par for the planet’s course…
 * On the end of the world framing faer story “St. Juju” in “Rivers Solomon on colonialism, the apocalypse, and fascinating fungus” in The Verge (2019 Jan 28)