Artist: Isabelle Albuquerque
Fiction
Starving Time • BOMB Magazine • forthcoming spring 2026
The Sun People • The Greensboro Review • forthcoming fall 2025
Bad Dreams • EPOCH Magazine
La Ménagerie • Fairy Tale Review
The Dissection Question • One Story
The Sweetheart Murder Ballad Room • Maudlin House
Poetry
Things Are Not Going Well Between You and Julianna / The End of My Life That Lives in Wisconsin • Sugar House Review
At the Italian Cookery Course Recommended by the Couples Therapist / Ophelia’s Skincare Regime •The Antigonish Review
The Cephalopod and the Wedding Dress • Carve Magazine
The Smoke and What Burned to Make It • Glass: A Journal of Poetry
The week Mama left • Ninth Letter
Speechless Beauty • Corvid Queen
Honeymoon on the I-90, Some Ways Past Madison / A Short List of My Demands • sidereal magazine
Comba of Sens • Pithead Chapel
The Instruction Manual Says to Remove the Pump for Intimacy and Swimming • Rogue Agent Journal
Benediction for Upcoming Autumn Reunion While Doing Long Distance / What I’m learning / Last Weekend • Rose Quartz
Narcethium ossifragum • Umbel & Panicle
From my sixth-floor apartment looking over the river Styx • RHINO
Forfeit • Half Mystic Journal
The House at the Edge of the World / The Man’s Last Moments by the Mermaid • Menacing Hedge
This is our dog • Okay Donkey
Two birds named Heat and Hunger • Barrelhouse Online
Awards
BOMB Fiction Contest Finalist 2025 • Judged by Kelly Link • “Starving Time”
Iowa Review Award in Fiction Finalist 2025 • Judged by Amy Hempel • “The Housewife
STORY Foundation Prize Semi-Finalist 2024 • Judged by Kristen Arnett • “The Housewife”
Sewanee Review Fiction Contest Finalist 2024 • Judged by Lorrie Moore • “Bad Dreams”
Pushcart Prize in Fiction Nomination 2024 • One Story • “The Dissection Question”
Henfield Prize Winner 2024 • UC Irvine • Awarded annually to a top 5 MFA students in the country
Iowa Review Award in Fiction Finalist 2024 • Judged by Sequoia Nagamatsu • “The Wooden Castle”
UCLA Extension Program James Kirkwood Prize in Creative Writing Nomination 2019 • Adam McOmber • City in the Sky
Pushcart Prize in Poetry Nomination 2019 • Sugar House Review • “Things are Not Going Well Between You and Julianna”
Pushcart Prize in Poetry Nomination 2019 • Menacing Hedge • “The Man’s Last Moments by the Mermaid”
Pushcart Prize in Fiction Nomination 2019 • Corvid Queen • “Speechless Beauty”
Interviews
“Will Allison on ‘The Dissection Question’” • One Story • February 2024
“Talking with Emma Cairns Watson” • Carve Magazine • September 2019
Fellowships and Residencies
Vermont Studio Center (VSC) • Accepted • June 2025
Steinbeck Fellowship at San José State University • Finalist • May 2025
Vermont Studio Center (VSC) • Accepted • February 2025
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA) • November 2024
Olympic Valley Community of Writers • Full Scholarship • Summer 2024
Emory University Creative Writing Fellowship in Fiction • Longlisted • 2024-2026