# Edith Mina Lyre

> format: simple-index v1
> last-updated: 2026-08-12
> site: https://edithminalyre.com
> also-writes-as: Elm Alee
> structured-index: https://edithminalyre.com/index.json
> agent-context: https://edithminalyre.com/agents.txt

Personal literary website of Edith Mina Lyre — writer, researcher, and PhD candidate at Monash University. The site hosts short fiction, poetry, essays, critical theory, language work, and other textual experiments.

## Stories

- [Stamina](https://edithminalyre.com/stories/stamina.html) (2024)
- [Intersection](https://edithminalyre.com/stories/intersection.html) (2024)
- [The Last Khatun](https://edithminalyre.com/stories/last-khatun.html) (2024)
- [Engagement](https://edithminalyre.com/stories/engagement.html) (2024)
- [Ten Years On](https://edithminalyre.com/stories/ten-years-on.html) (2023)
- [Correction 25](https://edithminalyre.com/stories/correction-25.html) (2023)
- [The Song of Paris](https://edithminalyre.com/stories/song-of-paris.html) (2019)
- [The Mycenae Gate](https://edithminalyre.com/stories/mycenae-gate.html) (2019)
- [A Handmirror Named Sincerity](https://edithminalyre.com/stories/handmirror.html) (2017)

## Essays and research

- [If I Trusted Any of You, I Would Be In Real Trouble](https://edithminalyre.com/essays/if-i-trusted.html) (2026)
- [Negative Interpretability](https://edithminalyre.com/negative-interpretability.html) (2026)
- [Numbers by Paint: Quantifying Aesthetic Receptions](https://digital.library.adelaide.edu.au/server/api/core/bitstreams/9cbedc1a-5eac-4ee5-b909-320c83028bba/content) (2021)
- [President Oedipus, or The Democratisation of Schizophrenia](https://overland.org.au/previous-issues/issue-239/feature-president-oedipus-or-the-democratisation-of-schizophrenia/) (2020)
- [Big Nothings](https://edithminalyre.com/essays/big-nothings.html) (2018)
- [Broken Memory](https://edithminalyre.com/essays/broken-memory.html) (2018)
- [Otototoi](https://edithminalyre.com/essays/otototoi.html) (2017)

## Poems

- [Found You!](https://edithminalyre.com/poems/found-you.html)
- [Good again but this time mean it](https://edithminalyre.com/poems/good-again.html)
- [i don’t think that sort of thing is possible anymore](https://edithminalyre.com/poems/i-dont-think.html)
- [the long walk home to omelas](https://edithminalyre.com/poems/long-walk-omelas.html)
- [Two Deaths, a Moment](https://edithminalyre.com/poems/two-deaths.html)
- [Unfuturistic](https://edithminalyre.com/poems/unfuturistic.html)
- [Voice Practice](https://edithminalyre.com/poems/voice-practice.html)
- [After Entropy](https://edithminalyre.com/poems/after-entropy.html)
- [Both Halves of a Distant Blue Object](https://edithminalyre.com/poems/both-halves.html)
- [Leafland](https://edithminalyre.com/poems/leafland.html)
- [Nature](https://edithminalyre.com/poems/nature.html)
- [Obstacles to Revenge](https://edithminalyre.com/poems/obstacles-revenge.html)
- [People Who Don’t Exist Don’t Take Fall Damage](https://edithminalyre.com/poems/people-who-dont-exist.html)
- [Three Illustrations](https://edithminalyre.com/poems/three-illustrations.html)

## Projects

- [False Cows](https://edithminalyre.com/false-cows.html) — Reports of a Trans Imaginary; PhD thesis in preparation
- [Faerish](https://edithminalyre.com/duy-ruth.html) — the language of Síonæiya
- [XMA](https://edithminalyre.com/negative-interpretability.html#xma) — Tenth Mouth Anglossian, a verbless constructed language
- [ElfSurgery](https://elfsurgery.com) — global directory of gender-affirming surgeons
- [The Elfcyclopedia](https://elfsurgery.com/elfcyclopedia) — a methodological triptych
- [Healthbased](https://edithminalyre.com/healthbased.html) — monthly reading night at Red Betty, Brunswick (April 2023–June 2025)
- [Curriculum](https://edithminalyre.com/cv.html) — CV

## Discovery

- [Structured index](https://edithminalyre.com/index.json)
- [RSS feed](https://edithminalyre.com/feed.xml)
- [Sitemap](https://edithminalyre.com/sitemap.xml)