book
- North Continent Ribbon (a mosaic novel formed from short stories), Neon Hemlock Press.
- Shortlisted, 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize in Fiction.
- The 30 Best Sci-Fi Books of 2024, Esquire.
- Starred review, Publishers Weekly.
- UW alum Ursula Whitcher talks short story collection, University of Washington Daily.
- North Continent Ribbon review, Tristan Beiter, Strange Horizons.
- Small Press Dispatch: Form and Function in Ursula Whitcher’s North Continent Ribbon, Ancillary Review of Books.
- My Favorite Bit.
- Interview at Night Beats with Rachel A. Rosen.
- Interview about building a collection with Marie Vibbert.
- Cover reveal interview with Yoon Ha Lee.
Book sources
Accolades
Press and interviews
short fiction
- "Flannelfeet" (Frivolous Comma)
- "Closer than your kidneys" (Frivolous Comma)
- "The Fifteenth Saint" (Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, May/June 2023)
The Asimov's blog interviewed me about the story and some of my literary influences. - "The Last Tutor" (Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, May/June 2022)
Stringing Pearls on the Asimov's blog is an essay about some family history that influenced the setting of "The Last Tutor." - "The Spirits of Cabassus" (The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast)
- "The Association of Twelve Thousand Flowers" (Cossmass Infinities, January 2021)
- "Alphabet of Signs" and "Jade Generals", on the Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast or transcribed at Alpennia.com
poetry
- "Secondary Filters" (Strange Horizons).
- "Fine Print" (Asimov's).
- "Beyond the Standard Model" (Analog)
Finalist for the 2026 Rhysling Award. - "Hexavalent" (Analog).
- "Persephone takes up the garnets" (The Deadlands).
Finalist for the 2024 Dwarf Stars award. - "Circle Packing," Rosalind's Siblings (Atthis Arts).
- "Olympia" (Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine).
- "Packing Up", Polu Texni.
- "Going up to Hanford" (Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine)
- "Ansibles" (Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine)
An interview about poetry and "Ansibles" at the Asimov's blog.
Anthologized in The Heartbeat of the Universe (Interstellar Press). - "Unmarked Country Roads" and "Marseille" (Cirque Journal)
- "Physics 6" (Climbing Lightly Through Forests)
- "The ten categories of being believed by Aristotle" (Liminality)
Video of me reading "Physics 6" and "The ten categories" for the 2021 Bridges poetry reading. - "Gifts for a dry country" (Rough Cut Press)
- "Weighted graph" with S. Brackett Robertson (Liminality)
Video of us reading the poem for the 2021 Bridges poetry reading. - "Difference Equations" and "K-Theory" (Bridges 2020 Poetry Anthology)
Also includes reprints of "Tuesday" and "Confidence Interval"
Video of me reading these four poems. - Tuesday (Journal of Humanistic Mathematics)
- "Chosen" (The Cascadia Subduction Zone)
- "Confidence Interval" (Journal of Humanistic Mathematics)
A recording of me reading "Confidence Interval" - "Three facts about sperm" (VoiceCatcher)
- "Boundary Conditions" (College Math Journal)
- "To seek her fortune" (Goblin Fruit)
- Translations of animal poems
