ELIZA CHAN

MEET THE WRITER OF FATHOMFOLK, A FANTASY ABOUT A FLOODED CITY

Tell us about your POV characters. There are three: Nami, a newly arrived water dragon from an elite family, impatient for change. Mira, a half-siren raised in the slums, hoping to transform the system from within, and Cordelia, a duplicitous seawitch shapeshifter whom nobody trusts. What folklore does it draw upon? The city’s populated by humans and mythological sea creatures. The majority are from East and Southeast Asia, including water dragons, kappa, jangjamari, but there are also kelpies, rusalka and a mermaid or two. Does it have a social message? This is a story about migration. It felt apt that the fathomfolk underclass literally come out of the water. It also comes from my frustration at how women are depicted in mythologies as damsels or seductresses. How long did it…

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SFX (Digital) - 1 Issue, March 2024

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