Caroline M. Yoachim


Caroline Mariko Yoachim is an author of speculative fiction who writes as Caroline M. Yoachim and Caroline Yoachim.
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Life

Yoachim was born in Hawaii and raised in the Pacific Northwest. As an adult, she lived with her husband Peter in Austin, Texas, and later in Seattle. She has two children. She received a master's degree in child psychology. When not writing, she "dabbles" in photography, selling her work through various stock photo companies. Other hobbies include graphic design, cooking, skiing, yoga and reading.

Writing career

Yoachim started writing speculative fiction in 2005 and attended the 2006 Clarion West Writers' Workshop. She has been active as an author since 2007 when her first published short story, "Time to Say Goodnight", appeared in the December issue of Fantasy Magazine. She has collaborated on a few pieces with Tina Connolly.
Yoachim's work has appeared in various periodicals and anthologies, including Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, Apex Magazine, Artemis Rising, Asimov's Science Fiction, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Clarkesworld, Daily Science Fiction, Drabblecast, Electric Velocipede, Escape Pod, Fantastic Stories of the Imagination, Fantasy Magazine, Fireside, Flash Fiction Online, Gigantosaurus, Greatest Uncommon Denominator, Humanity 2.0, Infinity Wars, Interzone, Kazka, Lightspeed, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Mechanical Animals, Nature, Nebula Awards Showcase 2018, Oceans: The Anthology, Sum of Us, PoC Destroy Science Fiction, Selfies From the End of the World, Shimmer, Talebones, Uncanny, Unidentified Funny Objects and Unlikely Story.

Short fiction

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;Stories
TitleYearFirst publishedReprinted/collectedNotes
Time to say goodnight2007
Ninety–five percent safe2015
We will wake among the gods, among the stars2016Novelette

  • "Setting My Spider Free"
  • "The Best Last Choice I Ever Made"
  • "Firefly Igloo"
  • "The Land of Empty Shells"
  • "Tending the Mori Birds"
  • "Pageant Girls"
  • "Stone Wall Truth"
  • "Blood Willows"
  • "The Sometimes Child"
  • "What Happens in Vegas"
  • "Shades of Orange"
  • "Deathbed"
  • "Mother Ship"
  • "After the Earthquake"
  • "Flash Bang Remember"
  • "Blue Sand"
  • "The Philosophy of Ships"
  • "The Safe Road"
  • "The Carnival Was Eaten, All Except the Clown"
  • "Harmonies of Time"
  • "Ten Million Sheets of Paper, All in Black and White"
  • "A Crown of Woven Nails"
  • "Elizabeth's Pirate Army"
  • "Beneath the Willow Branches, Beyond the Reach of Time"
  • "One Last Night at the Carnival, Before the Stars Go Out"
  • "Current and Still"
  • "Paperclips and Memories and Things That Won't Be Missed"
  • "Pieces of My Body"
  • "Five Stages of Grief After the Alien Invasion"
  • "Do Not Count the Withered Ones"
  • "Honeybee"
  • "Carla at the Off-Planet Tax Return Helpline"
  • "Bread Babies"
  • "A Million Oysters for Chiyoko"
  • "Red Planet"
  • "Meat That Grows on Trees"
  • "Temporary Friends"
  • "Coin Flips" with Tina Connolly
  • "Goat Milk Cheese, Three Trillion Miles from Earth"
  • "Sugar Showpiece Universe"
  • "Garbage Trucks of Discontent"
  • "Everyone's a Clown"
  • "Goodbye, First Love"
  • "Four Seasons in the Forest of Your Mind"
  • "Dancing with Fire"
  • "Seasons Set in Skin"
  • "Seven Wonders of a Once and Future World"
  • "An Impromptu Guide to Finding Your Soulmate at a Party on the Last Night of the World"
  • "The Little Mermaid of Innsmouth"
  • "Grass Girl"
  • "Betty and the Squelchy Saurus"
  • "Please Approve the Dissertation Research of Angtor"
  • "Rock, Paper, Scissors, Love, Death"
  • "Birthday Child"
  • "We Will Wake Among the Gods, Among the Stars"
  • "Welcome to the Medical Clinic at the Interplanetary Relay Station │ Hours Since the Last Patient Death: 0"
  • "You Are Not the Hero of This Story"
  • "An Army of Bees"
  • "The First Snow of Winter"
  • "Chocolate Milkshake Number 314"
  • "Love Out of Season"
  • "The Words on My Skin"
  • "On the Pages of a Sketchbook Universe"
  • "Press Play to Watch It Die"
  • "Exquisite Corpse"
  • "Best Chef Season Three: Tau Ceti e"
  • "The Right Place to Start a Family"
  • "A Letter to My Best Friend on the Most Important Day of Her Life, Undelivered, No Known Forwarding Address"
  • "Shadow Station"
  • "Carnival Nine"
  • "The Ivory Hummingbird"
  • "Building a Bridge Too Vast to Cross"
  • "Until the Day We Go Home"
  • "Faceless Soldiers, Patchwork Ship"
  • "Dreams as Fragile as Glass"
  • "Dancing in the Midnight Ocean"
  • "A Rabbit Egg for Flora"
  • "The Clockwork Penguin Dreamed of Stars"
  • "Colors of the Immortal Palette"
  • "We Will Teach You How to Read We Will Teach You How to Read", Lightspeed Magazine, winner of the 2025 Ignyte Award for Best Short Story

Nonfiction

  • "Penguins, Robins, and Science Fiction"
  • "Author Notes"
  • "Introduction"
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Awards