Joseph Sidari

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My Winning Story in Volume 42, WOTF

A GIRL AND HER DRAGON: A LIFE IN FOUR PARTS

Across decades, a girl grows into a journalist, activist, and outlaw—her lifelong devotion to a captive dragon never dimming as she battles a fearful world to return him to the sky.

Can't wait until 4/26 to see it in print?

Me Neither!

WICKED LOCAL

FIND my article on WICKED LOCAL. For those non-Massachusetts residents, WICKED is regional slang for an extreme superlative, ie, "The traffic was wicked bad at rush hour on the Mass Pike today."

ASTRO-NERD

READ my latest MG speculative fiction appearing in the NOV 2025 online issue of EMBER: A Journal of Luminous Things. "Astro-Nerd" is the story of 13-year-old lunar refugee, Amari, whose family vacation to Earth goes very, very wrong.

The Author's Quill Podcast

WATCH my 45-minute interview with host Joe Montaldo and Publisher John Goodman on the Writers of the Future contest and my winning short story on YouTube.

About the Author

Joseph Sidari lives in the Boston suburbs with his wife and a labradoodle named Chloe, who firmly believes it is her responsibility to make sure they both get daily exercise. He is a practicing physician, which means he spends his days trying to keep real people alive and his nights finding inventive ways to endanger fictional ones. He is a member of the Grub Street Writers' Group of Boston and SFWA. He has three grown sons and a daughter-in-law in New York City.

A lifelong reader of speculative fiction, Joseph began writing it after flipping his bicycle during triathlon training and concluding that typing involved fewer emergency room visits. Thankfully, once his wrist healed, his writing habit did not. After several novels and an agent's helpful suggestion, he discovered a fondness for short fiction.

He has over twenty short stories in print and online, spanning the fantasy, science fiction, and horror genres. He is a recent winner in the Writers of the Future Contest, and his story, “A Girl and Her Dragon: A Life in Four Parts,” will be featured in Volume 42 of the Writers of the Future anthology, to be published in April 2026.

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A Girl and her Dragon: A Life in Four Parts

Announcements

My Winning Story in Volume 42, WOTF

WICKED LOCAL

ASTRO-NERD

The Author's Quill Podcast

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NOVELS

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Can't wait to read my winning story? It’s almost here!

A Girl and her Dragon: A Life in Four Parts

Announcements

My Winning Story in Volume 42, WOTF

WICKED LOCAL

ASTRO-NERD

The Author's Quill Podcast

Join my READERS LIST to get my monthly newsletter

My Blog

Contact Me

Contact Me

Questions or Comments?

Joseph Sidari

Get in Touch

About the Author

Social

Bibliography

SCIENCE FICTION

SCIENCE FICTION

SCIENCE FICTION

Fantasy

SCIENCE FICTION

SCIENCE FICTION

Horror

SCIENCE FICTION

YA/MG fiction

YA/MG fiction

YA/MG fiction

YA/MG fiction

microfiction

YA/MG fiction

microfiction

NOVELS

YA/MG fiction

microfiction

Can't wait to read my winning story? It’s almost here!

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