Mei Backof
She/her | grant-funded horror freak
Mei Backof is more scared of you than you are of her. A strange and crooked animal, her writing veers grotesque and shies from cleanness. She's got a bad case of mold growing in her brain. More professionally, Mei is an Isabel Sparks President's Award winner, and is developing a horror short story and essay collection entitled "Bitter-Milk Drunk." She was one of Santa Clara University's two Canterbury Scholars, and is currently a Creative Writing MSc student at the University of Edinburgh.
Books
Bitter-Milk Drunk: Knowing Horror Gently, Intimately, Uneasily
Soon
Selected work
Sweetbreads and Chicken Soups
Soon
F(r)iction
All the Delaware Angels
The /temz/ Review, 2026
The Fall of Mammon
Blood+Honey, 2026
Of Sacred Skins
Fish Girl Collective, 2026
I Am 22 Now
Soon
Kitchen Table Quarterly
Someday I’ll Be Eaten by a Passerine
the engine idling, 2026
Do Stop Asking, Please
manywor(l)ds, 2026
The World Ender Card: A Tribute to Lord Huron
Viridine Literary, 2026
ON ALL FOURS
The Morgue, 2026
BIBLICALLY-ACCURATE SENSORY OVERLOAD
Corporeal, 2026
There's Something About Fish in Horror Games
Paw&Claw Anthology Series, 2026
Last Words of Sohal Malhotra
The Owl, 2025
Flower Mother, Fever Daughter
Poem-a-Day, 2024
turnover
The Owl, 2024
