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2020

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Download a PDF of all my Rhysling Award eligible poems here

  • Liminality: A Magazine of Speculative Poetry (Issue #23 – Spring 2020): Daughters Saving Mothers
  • Eye to the Telescope (Issue 36, April 2020, House & Home, edited by Emma J. Gibbon): Now the Patient Recounts the Houses in Her Mind
  • Liminality: A Magazine of Speculative Poetry (Issue #24 - Summer 2020): Acacia
  • Star*Line (Issue 43.3, Summer 2020): Dear Future
  • Twisted Moon Mag (Issue 5, August 2020): We Hold Up Eternity​
  • Liminality (Issue #25, Autumn 2020): Divergent and Rotten to the Core​​
  • Analog Science Fiction and Fact (Sep/Oct): Yes, Antimatter Is Real
  • Analog Science Fiction and Fact (Nov/Dec): So Many Blank Moons 
  • Pork Belly Press (Love Me, Love My Belly Zine No.5): It's Never Going to Stop ​


​2019

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  • Kaleidotrope (Winter 2019) - "All the Glory of Her Earthly Shell" ​
  • The Knicknackery Issue 6 (February 2019) - Bayou Dream
  • Dreams & Nightmares Magazine (Issue #111, January 2019)  - An Unknowing Breach of the Law 
  • The Avenue: Issue V: Music (April 2019) - Chopin Falls in Love with the Night (1827-1846)
  • Space & Time Magazine #133 (April 2019) - The Space Between Us
  • Not One of Us #61 (April 2019) - ​A Book Is a Tomb and Words Are Souls 
  • Mirror Dance Issue 44 (Spring 2019) - Farewell Dead Men​
  • Apparition Lit #8 (October 2019) - Belly of the Beast​
  • The 2019 Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association Contest
    • Winner: Short Form Category: The Fox and the Forest (Erasure of Ray Bradbury) 
    • Winner: Long Form Category: The Mining Town


​2018


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  • Texas Poetry Calendar 2019 (Kallisto Gaia Press, 2018) - Dear Childhood
  • Dreams & Nightmares Magazine (Issue #110, November 2018) - How We Got Here
  • ​Star*Line 41.4 (October 2018) - A Terrible Meat Eating God​
    • Reprinted in Blood Bath Lit Zine (November 2018)
  • ​Terse Journal (Oct. 3, 2018) - What it Feels Like to Play Video Games as a Woman
  • ARTHouston Magazine Issue#7 (September 2018) - Erasure (after Ralph Waldo Emerson)  ​
  • Liminality Issue #17 (Autumn 2018) - Dead-Eye Girl ​
    • Nominated for a 2019 Rhysling Award (Order the anthology here)
  • ​Nice Cage (Issue 006, Climate Change And/Or Die, Summer/Spring 2018) - Boll Heart, And Farther Death Goes, A Deep Enough Abyss
  • Really System(Issue 19: Stymy a Seller, Summer 2018)- Orbital Debris
  • Isacoustic (July 30, 2018) - When Darkness Leaves and Diary Outside of April​
  • Undead: A Poetry Anthology of Ghouls, Ghosts, and More (Apex Book Company, July 17, 2018) - Sea Fog ​​
  • Storyscape (Issue 20, July 2018) - A Woman (erasure of William Faulkner) and She was a Nice Little Nothing (erasure of Jack Kerouac) ​
  • 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) ​



​2017


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  • Grievous Angel, October 12, 2017 - Confessions of a Supermassive Black Hole
    • Reprinted in Audio on the Simultaneous Times Podcast 
  • Nonbinary Review, Issue#15 (November) - We Have Always Lived (Erasure of Shirley Jackson's We Have Always Lived in the Castle
    • ​​Available in Kindle format on Amazon
  • ​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 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​
  • ​​Alyss Magazine (September 24, 2017) - Dear John Cusack
  • Houston Chronicle (September 9, 2017): After Harvey: Poems from the Flood) - Hazard Pay
  • Strange Horizons (August 7th, 2017) - Bird House
    • 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
    • Reviewed at Quick Sip Reviews.
    • Purchase this issue on Amazon.
  • Mithila Review (Issue 8) - Two Visual Poems - Lunar Girl Drinks Poetry from the Stars & Reflection ​
    • Listen to recordings of my poems from this issue: ​
      • The Santa Monica Prophecies - My City of Ruin
      • Lunar Girl Drinks Poetry from the Stars
      • Reflection
  • By & By Poetry (Issue 7) - Grayslick
  • Abyss & Apex (Issue 62: 2nd Quarter 2017) - Spring Will Come Again
    • Appears in The Best of Abyss & Apex: Volume 3
  • Liminality (Issue #11: Spring 2017) - Pine Song, Robin Song, Star Song
  • 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)
  • Unlost Journal (Issue 8, Jan. 8, 2017) - Man, Erased (An Erasure of Pessoa)
  • Kaleidotrope, (Winter 2017) - Ship of Jinn

2016

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  • Ghost Proposal, Dec. 2016 - Loomings
  • Eastext (October 2016) - Without People & Out of the Labyrinth​
    • ​Read more at Arts & Culture Texas
    • ​Read more at Free Press Houston
    • Read an excerpt of my poetry at Literal Magazine
  • Eye to the Telescope (Issue 22: October 2016, Theme: Ghosts) - Hart Island
    • ​Read Editor Shannon Connor Winward's thoughts on picking poems for this issue, ​which includes a lovely write-up of my work here.
    • ​Reviewed in Spectral Realms No. 6 
  • Star*Line (Issue 39.4: Fall 2016) - Cetecean Prosthesis
  • ​​Liminality Magazine (Issue 9: Autumn 2016) - For Lonnie
    • ​*Nominated for the 2016 SFPA Rhysling Award*
  • Literary Orphans (Issue 26: Shirley) - Peony Red
  • Sixfold Journal (Summer 2016) - A Tourist of Sorts and Other Poems
  • ​​Zetetic: A Record of Unusual Inquiry (June 2016) - Night Raven
  • Zetetic: A Record of Unusual Inquiry (May 2016) - Woven
  • ​Abyss & Apex (Issue 58: 2nd Quarter 2016) - Revolution
    • ​​*Nominated for the 2016 SFPA Rhysling Award*
  • Penumbra, 2016 - "Bearing the Light" ​
  • ​Sixfold Literary Journal (Poetry Winter 2015/2016) - "Behind the Glass," "Housewife," "She Learns How to Disappear," "Two Young Wives," and "Aerie." ​
  • Page & Spine (March 11, 2016) - "Sheaves of Wheat," and "Break of Day." ​
  • ​​Silver Blade Issue 29 (Winter 2016) - "Powder Keg"

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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  • "Sacrum" forthcoming in Barely South Review
  • "We’re Refugees Who Found Love Searching for Atlantis" in Mithila Review
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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, Daily Science Fiction, Luna Station Quarterly, Liminality, and elsewhere. She is the author of the chapbooks Glimmerglass Girl (Finishing Line Press, 2018), Numinose Lapidi (in Italian, Kipple Press, 2020), and The Smallest of Bones (Clash Books, 2021). 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. 
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