The wonderful magazine Reckon Review was kind enough to run my piece “Ten Steps To Getting Rid Of The Ghost In Your House.” I hope you like it.
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Feral Journal of Poetry and Art
I wrote “The Herons” after a day of walking and driving around the Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge and was lucky enough to have the poem picked up by Feral Journal of Poetry and Art for The Hunger Issue. I hope you like it.
Hush Lit Magazine Issue 3
Two of my poems appear in Issue 3 of Hush Lit. It’s a beautiful poetry venue, and I’m glad to be a part of it. “Anthills” recalls how my first reading of One Hundred Years of Solitude at seventeen informed how I behaved about romantic love for the rest of my life. I think most people have a story about the first time they read that novel. It’s powerful. “Consent” is in honor of my daughters and the way they move in the world. The rising generation of women and girls take so little bullshit from men. I can’t read…
I Knew By The Tail
An online zine called Punk Noir Magazine was kind enough to run a fierce mermaid flash I wrote called “I Knew By The Tail.” Content warning: miscarriage.
The Ghosts of the Bees Weigh In on the Dishwasher Argument
I have a story up in the latest issue of Passengers Journal that was begun during my third residency last summer at Ashland MFA. My teacher Naomi J. Williams led us through a story prompt told in different points of view, and this little piece of domestic nightmare was born.
Queen of the Underground
You can catch my found footage story “Queen of the Underground” in the just released online zine Archive of the Odd Issue #1. This story is about a sociology student whose research into a local homeless community leads her to a portal to the faery underworld in the Sephora store at the mall, and to clues about her own origins. In other words, my obsession with faeries living in the mall has found an audience at last. You have to pay five bucks for Archive of the Odd Issue #1 online zine, but the entire project is so inventive and…
Grief (for J’uan)
I am honored to be included in Live Nude Poems with the poem I wrote for a beloved former student, one whose loss will break my heart forever.
A Year in Reading 2021
Here are the books I read in 2021. Novels and Novellas Orlando – Virginia Woolf The Changeling – Joy Williams With or Without You – Caroline Leavitt The Witch Elm – Tana French The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy Real Life – Brandon Taylor Luster – Raven Leilani The Only Good Indians – Stephen Graham Jones All My Puny Sorrows – Miriam Toewes The Water Dancer – Ta-Nehisi Coates Bad Habits – Amy Gentry In Between Days –Andrew Porter Libertie – Kaitlyn Greenidge When the Stars Go Dark – Paula McLain The Immortalists – Chloe Benjamin Disappear, Doppelganger,…
Maureen O’Leary’s 2021 Awards and Eligibility List
I wrote some horror and dark fiction and poetry that appeared in publication this year. Here is a list of the titles for this year’s awards and eligibility list just in case you are a nominating sort. Good Housekeeping in Coffin Bell Journal Volume 4, Issue No. 3 Visualize a Wolf in All Hallow’s Eve Anthology from Crow’s Feet Journal Fire Season in Ariadne Magazine Homecoming in The Horror Zine Summer 2021 Snake on the Door in The Black Fork Review Issue 4 The Healing in Bandit Fiction Thank you for reading.
The Healing in Bandit Fiction
I have a new story up this week with the wonderful online magazine Bandit Fiction. This is an excerpt from a novel that became my MFA thesis at Ashland MFA. I hope you’ll enjoy the reading.
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