Chandra Steele is a writer and journalist from New York. Her work has appeared in superfroot, No Contact, Wigleaf, Storm Cellar, Ample Remains, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, and other places. Rick Moody once said she wrote the best description of a racetrack he has ever read. She has never been to a racetrack.
Writing
Short Fiction
Not My Baby, superfroot
Bill of Goods, No Contact
Lives of the Saints, Storm Cellar
Take a Number, Ample Remains
The Copy Artist, Wigleaf
Thursday Night Special, Vol. 1 Brooklyn
Pushed, Vol. 1 Brooklyn
Striya of Celenia, The Hallowzine
A Thousand Beautiful Things, Newtown Literary
Sic Transit Memoria, Meat for Tea: The Valley Review, Volume 13, Issue 2 - Street
Out of the Blue, Litro Magazine
The Black Cat’s Breakfast, The Molotov Cocktail
(also appears in The Molotov Cocktail: Prize Winners Anthology Vol. 5)
Respiration, Pieces: A Collection of New Voices
Poetry
Astro Things, No Contact
Spat and Cultch, Newtown Literary
Ghosts in the Machine, Poets Reading the News
For Yayoi Wherever You Might Find Her, Pink Plastic House
Essays, Reviews, and Interviews
This Barbie Is an Assimilated Jew, Hey Alma
How to Recycle Your Worry, Capsule Stories Second Isolation Edition
Monet Was Such an Influencer, Hyperallergic
Dear Wigleaf postcard, Wigleaf
At Home in the House of DVF, Entropy
Russian Doll Wears Its Jewishness On Its Sleeve, Entropy
Please Do Say Forgive Me: Tupac’s Apology to Madonna, Medium
Personal Alarm, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Key Ring Chronicles
At Home in All Worlds: A Conversation with Banana Yoshimoto, The Scofield, Issue 3.1 - Kōbō Abe & Home - Winter 2018
Opinion
Why putting people on the moon (again) is so worth the expense, NBC Think
Richard Branson space flight beats out Jeff Bezos. But all of humanity loses., NBC Think
Humor
Jesus Harvest Seeds, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Reviews of New Food, The Tenth Batch
Union of Soviet Soda Republics: Krushka & Bochka Kvass, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Reviews of New Food, The Eighth Batch
Hallmark Hanukkah Movies, Weekly Humorist
CAPTCHAs for Women, Weekly Humorist