Marisa Lainson
Selected Publications
“Hypothetical Disasters” | Poetry Northwest, Winter/Spring 2024
“Fall in California” | The Shore, Issue No. 19
“Old Scabs” | The Shore, Issue No. 19
“Mother’s Day Gift” | Stonecoast Review, Issue No.19
“Luna Moth” | Peatsmoke Journal, Spring 2023
“Bluebeard’s Wife” | Poet Lore, vol. 116 3/4
“Vulvodynia” | The Pinch, vol. 42.2
“Oranges” | The Journal, vol. 45.2
“Hyssop” | Foothill Poetry Journal, vol. 11
“When You Kiss Me Your Hands Smell Like Bleach” | Frontier Poetry, May 2021
Interviews & Prose
About
A Best of the Net nominee, Marisa Lainson (she/they) is a queer poet from Southern California. She recently earned her MFA from the University of California, Irvine, where she served as Poetry Editor of Faultline Journal of Arts & Letters. Their work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Shore, Peatsmoke, The Journal, Poet Lore, The Pinch, Frontier Poetry, and Foothill Poetry Journal, where they were a finalist for the 2021 Foothill Editor’s Prize.
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