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PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS
  • Theories on Wreckage, a poetry micro-chapbook (Ghost City Press, 2020)
  • Monster (Girl) Theory, a poetry micro-chapbook (post ghost press, 2019)
  • Loneliness, and Other Ways to Split a Body, a poetry micro-chapbook (Ghost City Press, 2018)
  • Wildfire Heart, a poetry micro-chapbook (The Poetry Annals, 2018)​​

ANTHOLOGIES 
  • "Theories on Wreckage," Trigger Warning: An Anthology on Mental Health (ed. Jean-Marie Bub, the sad bitch chronicles, 2021 / forthcoming)
  • "Putain" and "Tension," RECLAIM: An Anthology of Women's Poetry (ed. Elizabeth Ruth Deyro, May 2019)
    • Print/e-book (purchase a copy here or here)
  • "Reclamation, Two Years Later," The Anatomy of Desire: An Anthology of Distance, an anthology by The Poetry Annals (ed. Shekinah Vera-Cruz, December 2018)
    • Print/e-book (purchase a copy here)
  • "Tiger Blood," Shared Horizons: A Rambutan Literary Anthology (ed. Do Nguyen Mai, Rambutan Literary, February 2018) ​ 
    • Print/e-book (purchase a copy here)

POEMS (SELECTED)
  • "Dissection," Parentheses Journal, Issue 10 (November 2020)
  • "Our City's Children," The Tiger Moth Review, Issue 4 (September 2020)
  • "Heaven to You," mineral lit mag, Issue 3.5: Lana Del Rey (April 2020)
  • "Body as Car-Struck Deer," Cosmonauts Avenue (February 2020)
  • "I Still Haven't Listened to Blonde All the Way Through," What Are Birds Journal, Issue 1.4 (September 2019)
  • "On Political(ized) Life," Glass Poetry's POETS RESIST Feature (August 2019)
  • "In Hushed Voices, the Women in My Family Speak About a Woman Who Left Her Husband for Another Woman," Ghost City Review (August 2019)
  • "After, He Tells Me To Get Up," Glass: A Journal of Poetry (April 2019)​
  • "Sable," Cotton Xenomorph (February 2019) - Nominated for Best of the Net 2019​​
  • "Grief, Carrying," Rust + Moth, Winter 2018 (November 2018) - ​Nominated for the 2019 Pushcart Prize 
    • ​Print (purchase a copy here)
  • "He Says 'I Miss How You Taste' and I Text Back 'I Know'" and "I Dreamt the Ocean Was My Mother," Crab Fat Magazine (September 2018)
  • "#000000," OCCULUM, Issue 7 (July 2018)
  • "Year of the Pig" and "Long Beach, 1992," Longleaf Review, Issue 3 (June 2018) 
  • "Confessions of A Biracial Woman", "Epitaph for Burning Palm Trees, Los Angeles 2016," and "Expectant," Hypertrophic Literary, Spring 2018 (March 2018) - "Epitaph for Burning Palm Trees, Los Angeles 2016" was nominated for the 2019 Pushcart Prize
    • ​​Print (purchase a copy here)
  • "I Used to Live in the Stomach of America," Indolent Books' WHAT ROUGH BEAST Feature (March 2018)​
  • "Family Portrait as Intergenerational Trauma," The Ellis Review (August 2017)
  • "Hot Mess," Vagabond City Literary Journal, Issue 22 (August 2017) - Nominated for the 2018 Pushcart Prize 
  • "Skin Reel," Ricepaper Magazine (April 2017)
  • "Birth City," Bombus Press, Issue Two: Noise (March 2017) - Nominated for the 2018 Pushcart Prize

PROSE
  • "What the River Took and What the Knife Gave Back," Corvid Queen (October 2018) - Nominated for Best of the Net 2019​
  • ​"The Marsh," OCCULUM, Issue 1 (November 2017)​​

ESSAYS
  • "An 'Outsider's' Perspective: On the Model Minority Myth and Being Khmer in America," The Brown Orient (March 2018)

REVIEWS & INTERVIEWS
  • "Interview with féi hernandez, Author of Hood Criatura," Sundress Publications (September 2020)
  • "Interview with Chera Hammons, Author of Maps of Injury," Sundress Publications (May 2020) 
  • "Sundress Reads: Review of Savage Pageant," Sundress Publications (May 2020)
  • "An Interview with The Brown Orient Founder Elizabeth Ruth Deyro," L'Éphémère Review (December 2018) 
  • "'Speak Miracle & Rage': On Knock and an Interview with Melissa Atkinson Mercer," L'Éphémère Review (February 2018)  
  • "On Female Pain, Sympathy, and Taking Up Space in Girl, World," L'Éphémère Review (February 2018) 
  • "Crossing From Loneliness Into Being: On Supernova and an Interview with Topaz Winters," L'Éphémère Review (January 2018) 
  • "An Interview with Grant Tarbard," L'Éphémère Review (November 2017)
  • "The Loss and Reclamation of the Body in Survive Like the Water," L'Éphémère Review (July 2017) 
  • "The Soft Rebellion of Sapphic Love in Heaven Or This," L'Éphémère Review (March 2017)

PARAPHERNALIA
  • "Project Bookshelf: Kanika Lawton," Sundress Publications (May 2020)
  • "Meet Our New Intern: Kanika Lawton," Sundress Publications (April 2020)
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