Work samples

  • A Horror Story About Lemons

    Short story from my Baltimore Gothic collection, published in The Hopkins Review

  • Mouse House

    Short story published in The Spectacle

  • Zephyr

    Short story published in The Maine Review

About Shelby

Shelby Switzer is a queer writer from the American South now based in Baltimore, MD, USA. They write short stories and novels, as well as the occasional essay or paper on society and community infrastructure. As a fiction writer, they investigate relationships and how we build our identity through them or in opposition to them. They enjoy portraying the humor and absurdity in relationships and in the mundane, playing with surrealism as an avenue for absurdity, joy, and creative authenticity… more