Making Kin II

It includes contributions by: Alice Ahad (Italy and Iran) Bianca Baldi (South Africa) Fatma Belkis (Turkey) Alix Breda (Brazil) Kai Edwards (UK) Anastasia Eggers (Russia) Katie Goss + Rebecca Reynolds (UK + US) Moselle K (US) Evie Muir (UK) Yuri Pascacio Montijo (Mexico) Christian Salablanca Diaz (Costa Rica) Javier Velázquez Cabrero (Spain) Josefina Vidal Miranda (Chile) Madrid, June 2025. - Making Kin II: Plants is the latest addition to Cthulhu Books. It is the second volume in the editorial’s collection of xeno-fiction anthologies. Xeno-fiction is a genre of fictional literature where the author embodies a non-human other and narrates their story through this foreign perspective. Following from Making Kin I: Animals (published in 2023 and distributed across Europe, UK, US and Mexico), this second volume launches in June 2025 and will be first presented during Miss Read, Berlin (HKW, 13–15 June). At a time when our understanding of plant life and the vegetal world is being consistently and dramatically reshaped, the book extends an invitation to inhabit the world of these all-but-static beings that surround us. Following the slightly defamiliarizing paths that plants and their rooted beings open for our mobile bodies, Making Kin II: Plants becomes a space in which to exercise empathy with this other form of life. “Making Kin II is published to coincide with the fictional birth date of Camille, in Donna Haraway’s famous collection of stories. Haraway has been teaching us to make kin for decades!” wrote Editor and Director of Cthulhu Books, Catalina Imizcoz. The book presents each contribution with an editorial blurb, accompanying the reader in their exploration of xenofictional narratives. Each entry ends on the author’s short bio, providing detail into the multiplicity of authors grouped in the volume. Recalling the experience of contributing to the publication, Chilean author Josefina Vidal Miranda adds that “This writing has helped me ask myself questions I’d never thought about before, and now plants play a very important role in my research project and in my perception of life in general.” Making Kin II: Plants contains twelve short stories and a visual essay by writers and non-writers, artists, researchers, teachers, editors and activists commissioned by Cthulhu Books to narrate stories from the perspective of plants