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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

Books

 
The Black Cat’s Breakfast available on Kindle

The Black Cat’s Breakfast
available on Kindle