Romie Stott (pronounced like Romeo without the ending o) is an editor at the Hugo, Ignyte, and British Fantasy Award-winning magazine Strange Horizons. Her short story “A Robot Walks Into a Bar…” won the 2012 Intel/Arc Tomorrow Project “Future Pleasures” Prize, and her historical fantasy feature screenplay Ratcatcher was a top 10 finalist in the 2012 American Zoetrope Screenplay Competition. From 2014-2016 she posted daily speculative microfiction at postorbital.tumblr.com. She has most recently been published by Analog (“A Reclamation of Beavers”) and her work as a playwright was most recently featured in Theatre Now’s Sound Bites XII festival of short musicals in New York City (“First, Contact”). Her domestic horror novel Nothing in the Basement (Dybbuk Press) is releasing in 2025. For a complete bibliography of Romie’s published work, visit romiesays.tumblr.com/biobib.
As a narrative filmmaker (working mainly as Romie Faienza), Romie has been a guest artist at the Institute of Contemporary Art (Boston), the Dallas Museum of Art, and the National Gallery (London). She is the writer/director of the short films “The Origin of the Milky Way,” “The Sleeping People” (part of Jonathan Lethem’s Promiscuous Materials Project), and “Aperture,” and the feature film Hayseeds & Scalawags. She has worked in various roles on more than 100 movies, including After The World Ended; for a more extensive list and to view her work, visit romiesays.tumblr.com/resume.
Romie has degrees in filmmaking, economics, and music, and is half of the electronica duo Stopwalk, whose singles you can find or buy on any streaming platform. Her cheerfully morbid “Birthday Song” has been featured on KCRW and The Believer’s “The Organist” podcast and is particularly well-loved by ukulele players and English-speaking Germans.
Romie is on bluesky at romiesays.bsky.social, and you can e-mail her at romiesays@gmail.com, or join her infrequent email list at romiesays.kit.com.