Sex, death, nature and the 'feminine': an autofiction romance in four acts.
Your Body of Water is an interweaving of autofiction with hydro-feminist mythologies, exploring via the emotional landscapes of four rivers and four "tragic feminine characters" (Ophelia, Leda, the Lady of Shalott and Sappho) the author's own real life journey, with a dose of tongue-in-cheek humour - through coming out in Australia, an abusive relationship in Berlin, and navigating queer love in the context of a world literally burning around us - and finding hope for the future in the stories of her ancestors before her.
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Siouxzi Connor is an Australian-born writer and filmmaker based in Berlin, exploring hydrofeminisms and queerness, and how the story-making process could be used to advocate for more-than-human nature. Her autofictional book, Your Body of Water, was published by Repeater Books in 2025 and launched with scent and textile responses to the book. Siouxzi teaches creative writing courses for The Reader, at Aix Marseille University and was recently featured in The Berliner Magazine and LitHub.
Her first book was published in 2017, Little Houses, Big Forests (desire is no light thing), receiving coverage on the BBC World Service. Siouxzi’s other writing has appeared in many anthologies and in literary magazines such as The Offing (LA Review of Books).
She is also a former research fellow of the Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry.
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Ambika Thompson (they/them) is a Berlin-based writer with over 35 stories published internationally. They hold an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Guelph (2019), served as fiction editor at SAND Journal (2022–2025), and, since 2024, teach creative writing and serve as Managing Director of The Reader Berlin, an international platform offering workshops and mentoring for writers. They are currently working on a poetic memoir exploring the meaning of “home.”
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