Joy Deva Baglio

We’re thrilled to share that IKE: A Publishing Project will be publishing Frog Heart, a luminous and unsettling short story by Joy Deva Baglio as a standalone chapbook—arriving April 18, 2026.

Joy Deva Baglio writes with a rare, electric clarity—the kind that makes the familiar feel newly charged and the uncanny feel inevitable. Her stories move with precision and emotional depth, revealing the strangeness humming beneath everyday life. She has an instinct for transformation, for the moment a character slips into a new shape or understanding, and she renders those shifts with both wonder and ache. Baglio’s fiction lingers long after the final line, not because it shocks, but because it illuminates something true and quietly profound about being human.

Baglio’s work has captivated us with its blend of the uncanny and the deeply human, and Frog Heart is no exception: a story that pulses, transforms, and lingers.