Published
Even if the Light Forgets — Volume I
An adult fantasy of alchemy, ruin, slow-burn romance, found family, and fragile hope.
Ys Goldt
creator of strange and tender things
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Published
An Index of Vanishing — Part I
A slow-burn historical romance about obsession, longing, and the cost of being seen, set in Tibet in 1938.
Published
Shelves of Memory
A contemporary poetry collection about grief, longing, love, memory, and the moments that resist being named.
Ongoing free serial
How Long Things Hold
A free science-fantasy web serial about memory, loss, and an impossible meeting.
Forthcoming · November 6, 2026
One Small Proof
A quiet short story about grief, tenderness, and the strange ways a brief connection can outlast the people who made it.
Forthcoming
If Not Heaven
An intimate historical romance about two lonely people who learn to be known, and what it costs to finally let someone in.
Conversation
Interview topics
- Body, consciousness, and identity
- Grief, memory, and remembrance
- Writing altered and non-human bodies
- Slow-burn intimacy without instant healing
- Alchemy as technology
- Building cultures through their ruins
- Character-first fantasy writing
- Choosing the truest form for an idea across fiction, image, interface, and object
- Developing Nachtljocht's editorial, visual, and material language
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Biographies
Short biography
Ys Goldt is a Southwest Florida–based multidisciplinary writer and artist working across fiction, interactive media, design, and performance. Her work explores attention, devotion, psychological transformation, memory, and the interior cost of being seen. She is the founding editor of Nachtljocht and lives in the Everglades, among things that may or may not exist.
Extended biography
Ys Goldt is a Southwest Florida–based multidisciplinary writer and artist working across fiction, interactive media, design, and performance. The form changes, but the question remains: What is the truest form for an idea? And what can be removed until that form becomes unmistakable?
Her practice moves between the sentence, the image, the interface, and the object. Across these forms, she returns to attention, devotion, psychological transformation, memory, and the interior cost of being seen. She is the founding editor of Nachtljocht, a quarterly journal for fiction and short plays, whose editorial, visual, and material language she developed. Born and raised in the Everglades, Ys still lives there among things that may or may not exist.
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