Dmitri Akers is a multimedia artist, working in photography, poetry, and prose; he lives on unceded Kaurna country. Currently, he is working on a photographic series called FORLORN; it will be exhibited with the Artist Run Initiative at Gallery 42.
Dmitri Akers is a multimedia artist, working in photography, poetry, and prose; he lives on unceded Kaurna country. Currently, he is working on a photographic series called FORLORN; it will be exhibited with the Artist Run Initiative at Gallery 42.
Cribbing a social media handle from characters in Vineland, Dmitri's most favourite author ever is Thomas Pynchon!
Cribbing a social media handle from characters in Vineland, Dmitri's most favourite author ever is Thomas Pynchon!
Accruing credits in various literary magazines and anthologies, Dmitri is most interested in recasting the weird tradition in new, ghostly light. His bibliography includes:
Accruing credits in various literary magazines and anthologies, Dmitri is most interested in recasting the weird tradition in new, ghostly light. His bibliography includes:
Short Fiction
Short Fiction
• "When Mount Pulag Awoke" (2023), Penumbra, No. 4, Hippocampus Press
• "When Mount Pulag Awoke" (2023), Penumbra, No. 4, Hippocampus Press
• "Punch in Hell" (2024), Spawn II: More Weird Horror Tales About Pregnancy, Birth, and Babies, IFWG Publishing
• "Punch in Hell" (2024), Spawn II: More Weird Horror Tales About Pregnancy, Birth, and Babies, IFWG Publishing
• "Meander" (2025), Skull & Laurel Magazine, Issue 002, Tenebrous Press
• "Meander" (2025), Skull & Laurel Magazine, Issue 002, Tenebrous Press
• "Eternal Circles" (2025), Penumbra, No. 6, Hippocampus Press
• "Eternal Circles" (2025), Penumbra, No. 6, Hippocampus Press
• "On the Anthology Entitled 'Frames of Colour and Un-Colour'" (2026), The Deadlands, No. 41, Psychopomp
• "On the Anthology Entitled 'Frames of Colour and Un-Colour'" (2026), The Deadlands, No. 41, Psychopomp
Poems
Poems
• The Whale Road (2023), Spectral Realms (Hippocampus Press)
• The Whale Road (2023), Spectral Realms (Hippocampus Press)
• Iron-Sceptred Skeleton (2023), Spectral Realms (Hippocampus Press)
• Iron-Sceptred Skeleton (2023), Spectral Realms (Hippocampus Press)
• Siren Song (2023), Midnight Echo (AHWA)
• Siren Song (2023), Midnight Echo (AHWA)
• Reading by Ghost Light (2024), Spectral Realms (Hippocampus Press)
• Reading by Ghost Light (2024), Spectral Realms (Hippocampus Press)
• Song for the Devouring One (2024), Spectral Realms (Hippocampus Press)
• Song for the Devouring One (2024), Spectral Realms (Hippocampus Press)
• To Vathek (2024), Infernal Mysteries, or, A Compendium of Gothic Reveries & Dolorous Tales (Egaeus Press)
• To Vathek (2024), Infernal Mysteries, or, A Compendium of Gothic Reveries & Dolorous Tales (Egaeus Press)
• Butterfly-Boy (2025), Spectral Realms (Hippocampus Press)
• Butterfly-Boy (2025), Spectral Realms (Hippocampus Press)
• To Sobek (2025), Spectral Realms (Hippocampus Press)
• To Sobek (2025), Spectral Realms (Hippocampus Press)
• Song of Fae-Land (2025), Witches and Witchcraft: An Anthology of Stories, Poems, and Essays (Hippocampus Press)
• Song of Fae-Land (2025), Witches and Witchcraft: An Anthology of Stories, Poems, and Essays (Hippocampus Press)
• A Song for Pan (2026), Spectral Realms (Hippocampus Press)
• A Song for Pan (2026), Spectral Realms (Hippocampus Press)
And I have more forthcoming!
And I have more forthcoming!
Honorable Mentions
Honorable Mentions
Reactor Magazine, the online speculative fiction magazine of Tor Books, mentioned Dmitri Akers' short story in "Must Read Short Speculative Fiction: January 2026"!
Reactor Magazine, the online speculative fiction magazine of Tor Books, mentioned Dmitri Akers' short story in "Must Read Short Speculative Fiction: January 2026"!