2018


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Really System - "Orbital Debris" 
Undead: A Poetry Anthology of Ghouls, Ghosts, and More (Apex Book Company, July 17, 2018) - "Sea Fog" 

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Undead: A Poetry Anthology of Ghouls, Ghosts, and More offers over seventy contemporary poets contending with a time-honored topic: what lies beyond ‘the great beyond.’ The breadth of selection showcases poems ranging from deceased relatives and celebrities to other undead entities such as, vampires, automatons, angels, and yes, zombies. This anthology makes for a definitive addition to any speculative lit library.

Features my poem "Sea Fog" 
Ekphrastic Review - "Anvil Crawler" 
First appeared in ARTHouston Magazine Issue#5 
Also published in Dreamlike Art & Deviations
​(Ekprhastic inspired by the artwork of John Bernhard.)
Isacoustic, April 14, 2018 -  "espejitos" (excerpt from Glimmerglass Girl) 

Available for purchase in isacoustic* volume fourth (July 2018) 



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Grievous Angel, October 12, 2017 - Confessions of a Supermassive Black Hole
Dreams & Nightmares Magazine, Sept 2017 - "The Hearts of Robots"
​My poem "Lace at the Throat" won 3rd place in the Dwarf Category in the SFPA contest. "Witches" received an honorable mention in the long poem category.

​This poem is also going to be reprinted in the SFPA Dwarf Stars Award Anthology, where it will be eligible for the award for the best speculative poem of 1-10 lines published in 2017. 
Liminality Magazine (Issue #13, Autumn 2017) - How I Lost My Chastity

I’ll still be here beneath it all, I just / can’t bear for you to see all my / debris like this.
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Alyss Magazine (September 24, 2017) - Dear John Cusack
Thank you for age sixteen when I, bashed apart by loneliness, / curled up in your dark hair and white skin and the spaces / between your crooked teeth.
Houston Chronicle (September 9, 2017): After Harvey: Poems from the Flood) - Hazard Pay

Hurricane Harvey is about to release its dead. / It's hard to get that news item out of my head. / Driving home past abandoned cars in the underpass / my mind won't stop playing the word game / carcass, carcass, carcass.

Strange Horizons (August 7th, 2017) - Bird House
Quiscalus quiscula
Mind the grackles on your car, in the driveway here. They love side-view mirrors where they stare into their own button eyes. Hear them laugh? They cherish the bouncing sound of their own voices like sand passing through glass—the scrape of crystal in their gullets...
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Listen to "Bird House" on the Strange Horizons Poetry Podcast

Read a review of "Bird House" at Quick Sip Reviews
Eye to the Telescope (Issue 25: July 2017, Theme: Garbage) - Dear Shotgun City
​Mithila Review (Issue 8) - My City of Ruin in The Santa Monica Prophecies: A Collaborative Triptych

​The idea for this triptych of poems was conceived when Layla, Holly, and Bonnie spent an evening at Santa Monica Pier in LA, where they had their futures foretold by a fortune-telling machine. Each writer’s poem is directly inspired by her fortune, borrowing words, phrases, and themes.​

Reviewed at Quick Sip Reviews.
Mithila Review (Issue 8) - Two Visual Poems - Lunar Girl Drinks Poetry from the Stars & Reflection 
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By & By Poetry (Issue 7) - Grayslick

My holy skin is stainless
stretched over my hands
open to her fresh seabed air.
Abyss & Apex (Issue 62: 2nd Quarter 2017) - Spring Will Come Again

​What part of themselves did these souls, these ghost riders, misplace?
What plane did they transgress? What crime did they commit
binding them to the darkness, to the death trees,
where twin hearts await, eager to blossom once more?
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"Gibson House" by Bert Cash
Liminality (Issue #11: Spring 2017) - Pine Song, Robin Song, Star Song

When men came to cut me down I lingered over the stump,
marveling at the many rings of myself.
I never knew so much was hidden inside me.
Crab Fat Magazine (March 2017) - Of Whales in Paint and Other Poems

​The Fem (1/11/17) - Lolita and City Visible (Erasures of Nabokov and Rushdie)
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Unlost Journal (Issue 8, Jan. 8, 2017) - Man, Erased (An Erasure of Pessoa)
Man is conviction ridiculous.
Whenever ridiculous annihilates him
the superior man enjoys superiority perfect.

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Kaleidotrope, (Winter 2017) - Ship of Jinn
My skin boils beneath ice/ milk and cream curdling/ uncoiling, it asks/ not for forgiveness./Close in the dark/ their breath is victim/ to the night

2016

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2015
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  • Vine Leaves #16 (October 2015) - "A Red Sky." 
  • Our Space: Shorts & Poetry from the Houston Community (2015) "Morning Song." Edited by Writespace staff and volunteers. 

forthcoming
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About the Author

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Holly Lyn Walrath’s poetry and short fiction has appeared in Strange Horizons, Fireside Fiction, Luna Station Quarterly, Liminality, and elsewhere. Her chapbook of words and images, Glimmerglass Girl, will be published by Finishing Line Press in 2018. She holds a B.A. in English from The University of Texas and a Master’s in Creative Writing from the University of Denver. She is a freelance editor and host of The Weird Circular, an e-newsletter for writers containing submission calls and writing prompts.