by Susan L. Lin ζž—πŸ¦•

writer, artist, sewist, dancer, dinosaur

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FORTHCOMING
“Elevated,” Inked in Gray’s Hope in A Grimdark World (Fall 2026)
“Serenity,” Worldstone Publishing’s Summer of Sci-Fi & Fantasy 5 (July 2026) [^]
“The Melancholy Woodwinder,” WriteHive’s Surviving Humanity (March 2026) [$: pre-order digital/print]
“All I Could See (And All I Couldn’t),” Night Shades (February 2026)
“Scenes from A Not-So-Natural Disaster,” Story Sanctum (February 2026)
“Writer’s Ed,” Carmalarky (2026)

2025
“She Had Her Head in the Attic,” Astrolabe (December) [#]
“Pick Your Poisson…,” Your Paper Quest (December)
“When We Are Young, We Think We Are Invisible,” Claudine (December)
“Revenge Dress,” Gavagai (October) [^]
“Housemap,” Air and Nothingness Press’s Mmeory (October) [$: print]
“The Truth About Unremarkable Things,” Breath & Shadow (September) [^]
“Gravitational Pull,” BRAVE NEW WEIRD: The Best New Weird Horror, Vol. 3 (June) [^] [$: digital/print]
“No Vacancy,” Horrific Scribblings’ Horrific Scribes (April) [*]
“Taco Bell Customer Satisfaction Questionnaire,” The Good Life Review (April)
“Monkey Ice Cream Roller Skates What Happens Why,” Talk Vomit (March)

2024
“In the Name of Scientific Progress,” 2024 Betty L. Yu & Jin C. Yu Creative Writing Prizes honorable mention
“Burning Questions,” Isele Magazine Quarterly: The Air We Breathe (December)
“Dear Venus,” Does It Have Pockets? (December)
“To Making More Memories,” The Sunlight Press (November)
“For I Am Not Frida Kahlo…,” Garden Party Collective mental health poetry contest winner (November) [*]
“Dear Earth,” Mignolo Arts Center’s Pinky Thinker Press 12 (October) [^] [$: print]
“Moonshot: An Oral History…,” British Science Fiction Association’s Fission #4 (July) [$: digital/print]
“Terrestrial Life,” Sonder Magazine (July) [$: print]
“The Truth About Unremarkable Things,” Gotham Writers’ The Razor (July)
“The Incident at Ride Academy,” Cosmorama (June)
“When I Wassssss Young,” Daikaijuzine (June) [^]
“W.I.S.H.,” Variety Pack XI (May)
“Three Lesser-Known Writers (And Their Natural Habitats),” trampset (May)
“Bedding A Ghost,” Jaded Ibis Press’s Scarlet (May)
“Five Breathtaking Places to Visit Before You Die,” 20th SIFFC honorable mention (March)
“The Unfortunate Limitations of Straight Stitches,” Dismantle Magazine (February)

2023
“Gravitational Pull,” 2023 Betty L. Yu & Jin C. Yu Creative Writing Prizes honorable mention
“Things We Found in the Fire,” Malarkey Press’s King Ludd’s Rag 17 (December) [$: digital/print]
“Almost Certain,” “Traffic,” “Traumatropes,” manywor(l)ds (November) [##]
“The Color of the Table,” Off Topic Publishing’s Exhaustion: Limited Reserves (September) [$: digital/print]
“Abandonment Issues,” The Memoirist Quarterly 1 (August) [$: print]
“Revenge Dress,” Aseptic and Faintly Sadistic: An Anthology of Hysteria Fiction (May) [$: digital/print]
“House of Reverie,” Paramnesia: A Grendel Press Horror Anthology (April) [$: digital/print]
“The Magic Button Shop,” Flame Tree Press’s Hidden Realms Short Stories (March) [$: print]
“Inclement Weather,” Reckoning 7: Creative Writing on Environmental Justice (January) [$: digital/print]

2022
“Dead Lines,” Four Palaces Anthology 1: Desire to Escape (November) [$: print]
“The Shrouded Parent in the Future,” If There’s Anyone Left 3 (November) [$: digital/print]
“The Opposite of Bullshit,” Southwest Review 107.3 (October) [$: print]
“-Scope,” OFIC Magazine 3 (October) [$: digital]
“Touching the Morning,” Voyage: A YA Literary Journal (September) [!]
“Dear Pluto,” Singapore Unbound’s SUSPECT (September) [!] [$: print]
“Terribly Sorry,” Bullshit Anthology 01 (August) [$: digital]
“The Cloud Artist,” Asian American Writers’ Workshop’s The Margins (July)
“S.,” Seaborne Magazine 3 (July) [$: digital]
“When I Wassssss Young,” Vast Chasm Magazine (July)
“The Pimento,” riddlebird (July) [$: print]
“The Bear at the Door,” Twenty-two Twenty-eight (July) [$: web]
“Serenity,” ellipsis… literature & art 58 (April) [$: print]
“The Shrouded Parent at Midnight,” The Woodward Review (March)
“Little Z,” The Gravity of the Thing (March)
“Title Subject to Change,” Riddled with Arrows: Spotlight 2022 (March) [*]
“The Shrouded Parent,” Native Skin (February) [archive]

2015
“Dear Earth,” pacificREVIEW: Vivarium (August) [$: print]
“The Cone of Uncertainty,” Pankhearst’s Slim Volume: Wherever You Roam (Summer) [^] [$: print]
“Come Back to Me,” Qu 2 (Spring) [$: print]
“Artificial Wings,” The Perch 2 (Spring)

2014
“Brief Spaces of Light,” Treehouse (September)
“27,” I am: twenty-seven (September)
“The Water’s in My Face and I’m Swallowing,” Portland Review 60.3 (Spring) [$: out of print]
“That Morning, in the Unforeseen Future,” Souvenir Lit (Summer) [!]
“Apertures,” Hypertext Magazine (April)
“A Miniature Replica,” Meat for Tea 8.1: Chrysanthemum (Spring) [$: digital]
“An Unfortunate Case of Myopia,” Gravel 9 (March) [archive]
3 micro fictions, MadHat Annual 15 (Winter) [archive]

2013
Review: The Dangers of Proximal Alphabets by Kathleen Alcott, Eleven Eleven 15 (Summer) [$: print]
“The Cone of Uncertainty,” Midway Journal (Summer)
β€œA Lifetime Spent Documenting the World,” Ghost Town 4 (Summer)
β€œThis is Why the Monster Stays,” Hayden’s Ferry Review 52 (Spring/Summer) [!] [$: print]

2012
β€œAn Unwanted Casket,” Curbside Splendor’s The Way We Sleep (December) [$: print]
Review: Bright Before Us by Katie Arnold-Ratliff, Eleven Eleven 13 (Summer) [$: print]

2010
β€œWhat Goes Down, Must Come Back Up,” Rougarou 4.2 (Fall) [!] [*]
β€œThe Present is Where My Body Lies,” elimae (October)

[$] denotes work behind a paywall
[!] denotes Pushcart Prize nominees
[*] denotes Best of the Net nominees

[#] denotes Best Microfiction nominees
[^] denotes reprints

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