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The Cover of The Deep Sky, A Novel, by Yume Kitasei includes wavy strips reminiscent of plaents and a woodcut print of waves. In the center of the image are the feet and tail of a black bird taking flight.

The cover of The Stardust Grail, A Novel, by Yume Kitasei, Author of The Deep Sky, includes red clouds with elliptical openings revealing glowing tentacles in the center. A quote on the top right corner by Veronica Roth says "An Indiana Jones-syle outer space heist adventure."

The cover of Saltcrop, A Novel by Yume Kitasei, Author of The Deep Sky, depicts a smoth ocean with a sailboat crossing the horizon, overlaid by wavy strips of sky and a crescent moon in the top left.

An image of a rocket launching into the night sky, with silhouettes of people lined up along the water in the foreground watching. The text says: Envoy A Novel, Yume Kitasei, Author of the Deep Sky, and "Five astronauts. One killer." A post-it note over it says "Cover to come."

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Short Fiction

"Ghosts in the Ash," Planet Scumm, Issue #15, May 2023. (available online)

"The Gratitude of Mice," Strange Horizons, March 2023. (available online)

"The Last Tenants," New England Review, December 2022. (available online)

"The Hole," Nashville Review, April 2022. (available online)

"Whale Fall," Catapult, December 2021. (available online)

"Sleeping Giants," The Waking (Ruminate Magazine online), November 2021. (Nominated for Best Small Fictions 2022) (available online)

"Leaving," Sunlight Press, August 2021. (available online)

"A Too Small Room," Fractured Lit, August 2021. (Ghost, Fable, and Fractured Fairy Tale Prize judged by Kevin Brockmeier, 3rd place, and Spotlighted Story for Best Small Fictions 2022) (available online)

"Eating Stale Biscuits in the Middle of the Pacific Ocean," SmokeLong Quarterly, Issue 72, June 2021. (Nominated for a Pushcart Prize) (available online)

"Love at the End of the World," Qwerty, Issue 42, January 2021.

"Sara's City," Baltimore Review, Spring 2020. (available online)

"Tomorrow, When the Sun Rises," Room Magazine, 43.2: Devour, June 2020.

"Hatch," Forge Literary Magazine, 2019. (available online)

"The Mechanical Mind," LampLight Magazine Vol. 8 Issue 1, 2019.

"Super," Metaphorosis, 2019. (available online)

"Two Shoes," Punchnel's, 2015.

Essays

"It’s Okay But It’s Also Really Not. When Dystopian Fiction is No Longer a Thought Experiment," LitHub, October 2025. (available online)

"Reading with...Yume Kitasei," Shelf Awareness, September 2025. (available online)

"Five SFF Books About Searching for a Missing Sibling," Reactor, September 2025. (available online)

"Why Compassion Is a Common Theme in Space Opera," Reactor, August 2024. (available online)

"Apocalypse Now: Why It’s Cathartic To Read About the End of the World," LitHub, August 2023. (available online)

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