APRIL 18, 2026
PAPERBACK | 4 x 6 | 48 PAGES | $15.00
978-1-954992-18-4
FICTION | SHORT STORY | CHAPBOOK
What would you sacrifice to save the one you love?
When her infant daughter’s failing heart leaves her desperate for a miracle, a mother is drawn to a mysterious pond. Confronted by a giant, talking frog, she faces an impossible choice: surrender to nature’s limits or embrace a transformation that blurs the line between human and animal.
Baglio masterfully blends fairy-tale magic with raw emotional realism, crafting a tale that is as unsettling as it is beautiful. Frog Heart lingers long after the final line, asking readers to consider the lengths we go to preserve life—and the strange bargains love demands.
Joy Deva Baglio is a speculative-literary fiction writer whose fiction has appeared widely in journals such as One Story, Ploughshares, The Missouri Review,The Iowa Review, American Short Fiction, Conjunctions, Tin House, The Fairy Tale Review,and elsewhere. She is the founder of Pioneer Valley Writers’ Workshop, a literary arts organization based in Northampton MA (and virtually).
APRIL 18, 2026
PAPERBACK | 4 x 6 | 48 PAGES | $15.00
978-1-954992-18-4
FICTION | SHORT STORY | CHAPBOOK
What would you sacrifice to save the one you love?
When her infant daughter’s failing heart leaves her desperate for a miracle, a mother is drawn to a mysterious pond. Confronted by a giant, talking frog, she faces an impossible choice: surrender to nature’s limits or embrace a transformation that blurs the line between human and animal.
Baglio masterfully blends fairy-tale magic with raw emotional realism, crafting a tale that is as unsettling as it is beautiful. Frog Heart lingers long after the final line, asking readers to consider the lengths we go to preserve life—and the strange bargains love demands.
Joy Deva Baglio is a speculative-literary fiction writer whose fiction has appeared widely in journals such as One Story, Ploughshares, The Missouri Review,The Iowa Review, American Short Fiction, Conjunctions, Tin House, The Fairy Tale Review,and elsewhere. She is the founder of Pioneer Valley Writers’ Workshop, a literary arts organization based in Northampton MA (and virtually).
