Marisa Lainson
Selected Publications
“Adjusted in the Tomb” | Harbor Review, Issue #14
“This Little Piggy Went to the Market” | Palette Poetry
2024 Rising Poet Prize second runner-up
“Hypothetical Disasters” | Poetry Northwest, Winter/Spring 2024
Nominated for Best of the Net 2025
“Fall in California” | The Shore, Issue No. 19
“Old Scabs” | The Shore, Issue No. 19
Nominated for Best of the Net 2025
“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
Nominated for Best of the Net 2022
Finalist for the Foothill Editor’s Prize
“When You Kiss Me Your Hands Smell Like Bleach” | Frontier Poetry, May 2021
Interviews & Prose
About
Marisa Lainson is a poet from Southern California and the co-founder and Managing Editor of Copytext Magazine. She holds an MFA from the University of California, Irvine, where she served as Poetry Editor of Faultline Journal of Arts & Letters and was selected as first runner-up for the 2022 Excellence in Poetry Prize. Their work has received support from Community of Writers as well as numerous nominations for Best of the Net. Recent poems have appeared in Poetry Northwest, Harbor Review, and Palette Poetry, where she was selected as second runner-up for the 2024 Rising Poet Prize.
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