About

Hello there! I’m Kristin Yuan Roybal (she/they). Corin Reyburn is my pen name, forged as a representation of ethnic ambiguity and the non-binary. “Yuan” (袁) is my mother’s maiden name. “Roybal” is Spanish for “Red King.” “Reyburn” is the name of a redshirt who was killed on Star Trek.

I have moved up and down the West Coast from Northern to Central to Southern California, then to Oregon, then back to Northern California again. I have never really found location to be a strong component of my identity but do believe that weather is important. I teach college writing courses and earned my M.F.A. in fiction from Oregon State University. Some places my work has appeared include Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, Mojo, M-BRANE SF, Subtopian Magazine, The Molotov Cocktail, Jersey Devil Press, and The Gateway Review: A Journey of Magical Realism. Past projects include co-producing the speculative fiction podcast SubverCity Transmit and serving as fiction editor for 45th Parallel magazine.

My writing areas of interest include speculative fiction, sci-fi, magical realism, genre-bending experiments, embodiment, gender, sexuality, technology, time, Taoism, Buddhism, yoga, Hinduism, and the otherwise beyond. I enjoy transmuting cosmic energy, the use of unconventional instruments in rock n’ roll music, and of course have a cat—a chubby bluepoint Siamese named Isis.

My debut novel, The Rise of Saint Fox and The Independence, was released in 2018 by Unsolicited Press. My sophomore novel, Binary Stars, about a high-tech agricultural society on a planet called Vox where music, metaphysics, and robots collide, was released in May 2022.