LYNETTE MEJíA
Author & Library Advocate

POETRY

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​2024

• Chapbook: There Is No Why: New Fairy Tales (Dancing Girl Press)

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2021

• "Curiosity" (Sycorax, The Fairy-Tale Issue (5), Fall 2021)

• "You Don't Know How This Ends" (Sycorax, The Fairy-Tale Issue (5), Fall 2021)

• "Ritual" (Liminality, Issue 27, Spring 2021)

• "What My Mother Taught Me" (Fantasy, February 2021)

  • Reviewed at Quick Sip Reviews

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2020

• "Quarter/Cross Quarter" (Eternal Haunted Summer, Summer Solstice 2020)

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2019

• "This Is Why I Love You," (Kaleidotrope, Summer 2019)

• "Abandon," (Strange Horizons, 20 May 2019)

  • Listen Here

  • Reviewed at Quick Sip Reviews

• "Trees and What they Whisper,"  (Liminality #19, Spring 2019)

• "Changeling," (Sycorax Journal, Issue 2)

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2018

• "Flight," (Sycorax Journal, Issue 1)

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2017

• "Woodwork," (Liminality, 11, Spring 2017)

• "Sabbath," (llumen, Spring 2017)

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2016

• "Seer" (Liminality, 10, Winter 2016/2017)

• "Leda/Medusa/Persephone" (Eternal Haunted Summer, Winter Solstice 2016)

• "The Vigilant" (Not One of Us, 56, October 2016)

• "The Dancer" (Inkscrawl, 10, August 2016)

• "Half in Love with Easeful Death" (Mythic Delirium, 3.1, July 2016)

• "Haunted" (Through the Gate, 10, May 2016)

• "Cat House on Planet X" (Star*Line, 39.2, Spring 2016)

• "Mythopoeia" (Eternal Haunted Summer, Spring Equinox 2016)

• "Daughter" (Kaleidotrope, Spring 2016)

• “Spell” (Stone Telling, 13, January 2016)

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2015

• “Three” (Eternal Haunted Summer, Winter Solstice 2015)

• “Changeling” (Liminality, 6, Winter 2015)

  • Nominated for the Rhysling Award

• “Code Talker” and “I Sing the Void” (Illumen, Autumn 2015)

• “Harrowing” (Strange Horizons, 12 October 2015)

  • Listen Here

  • Reviewed at Quick Sip Reviews

• “First Contact” (Eye to the Telescope, 18, October 2015)

• “Midnight at the Hub City Café” (Horror Writer's Association Poetry Showcase II, 2015)

• “There Is No Why” (Star*Line, 38.4, Fall 2015),

  • Editor's Choice

• Nominated for the Pushcart Prize

• “The Garden Wild” (Liminality, Autumn 2015)

• “Anchorite” (Eternal Haunted Summer, Autumn Equinox 2015)

• “Omega Woman” (Eye to the Telescope, 17, July 2015)

• “Superhero” (Lakeside Circus, Spring 2015)

• “The Time of Last Scattering” (reprint) (The 2015 Rhysling Anthology)

 

 

2014

• “Hypnos and Thanatos: The Embrace” (Liminality, 2, Winter 2014)

• “Visiting Hours” (Ideomancer, 13.4, December 2014)

• “Terra Firma” (Goblin Fruit, Autumn 2014)

  • Recommended in Ellen Datlow's Best Horror of the Year

• “Mariposa” (Eye to the Telescope, 14, October 2014)

• “Metamorphosis” (Star*Line, 37.4, Fall 2014)

• “Elegia Nam Homines” (Abyss & Apex, October 2014)

• “Eden.redux” (Mythic Delirium 1.2)

  • Reprinted in Mythic Delirium, Volume 2

• “Ghosting” (Liminality,  Autumn 2014)

• “the custom of the country” (Star*Line, 37.3, Summer 2014)

  • Editor's Choice

• “afterlife” (Horror Writers Association Poetry Showcase, 2014)

• “wish you were here” (Dreams & Nightmares 98, 2014)

• “Princess” (Ideomancer, 13.2, 2014)

• “Fairy Tale” (inkscrawl, Spring 2014)

• “a recipe” (Mythic Delirium, 0.4, April – June 2014)

  • Reprinted in Mythic Delirium, Volume I

• “dragon slayer” (Star*Line, 37.2, Spring 2014)

• “The Time of Last Scattering” (Star*Line, 37.1, Winter 2014),

  • Nominated for the Rhysling Award

 

2013

• “in the night tower” (Dreams and Nightmares 96, 2013)

• “As Above, So Below” (Goblin Fruit, Autumn 2013),

  • Reviewed at In the Labyrinth

• “Salvage” (Star*Line, 36.4, Autumn 2013)

• "A Modern Prometheus” (Strange Horizons, 29 July 2013)

  • Listen Here

• Reviewed at the sword that speaks

• “a drowning/Leviathan” (New Myths.com, Issue 23, June, 2013)