Margaret Killjoy (she/they) is a transfeminine author, podcaster, and musician based in the mountains of Appalachia. She is the host of the radical history podcast Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff and co-host of the preparedness podcast Live Like the World is Dying. She is the author of The Sapling Cage, Escape From Incel Island, The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion, and many other books. She the principal songwriter for the feminist black metal band Feminazgûl. Her work commonly explores themes of anarchism, magic, hope, and death.
Podcasts
Live Like the World is Dying
individual and community preparedness
Strangers In a Tangled Wilderness, 2020-
[apple] /// [spotify]
Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff
radical history
Cool Zone Media, 2022-
[apple] /// [spotify]
Books
The Immortal Choir Holds Every Voice
Book #3 of the Danielle Cain series
Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness, coming June 2025
[kickstarter]
The Sapling Cage
Book #1 of The Daughters of the Empty Throne trilogy
Feminist Press, 2024
[print] /// [audiobook] /// [ebook]
Penumbra City
a tabletop roleplaying game
Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness, 2024
[hardcover] /// [digital]
Escape From Incel Island
Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness, 2023
[print] /// [ebook]
We Won’t Be Here Tomorrow
and other stories
AK Press, 2022
[print] /// [ebook]
A Country of Ghosts
AK Press, 2021
[print] /// [audiobook] /// [ebook]
The Barrow Will Send What It May
Book #2 of the Danielle Cain series
Tor.com, 2018
[print] /// [ebook]
The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion
Book #1 of the Danielle Cain series
Tor.com, 2017
[print] /// [ebook]
What Lies Beneath the Clock Tower
Combustion Books, 2011
[ebook]
Mythmakers & Lawbreakers: Anarchist Writers on Fiction
AK Press, 2009
[currently out-of-print]
Music
Feminazgûl
feminist atmospheric black metal
[bandcamp] /// [spotify]
Nomadic War Machine
dance music for spooky kids who hate cops
[bandcamp] /// [spotify]
The Lathe
post-punk
[bandcamp] /// [spotify]
Vulgarite
one-woman doom metal project themed around the works of William Blake
[bandcamp] /// [spotify]
