“The tumor sits on a shelf, embalmed in liquid and trapped in glass. She watches me from her perch. Sometimes she speaks.” Tysm to The Pinch for including my story, “Cadaver,” in their latest issue!! Order a copy if u wanna read about body parts 🧠🫁🫀

I’ll be reading at this :)

i’ve got a poem in Kitchen Table Quarterly. go check it out kitchentablequarterly.org/elena-macdonal…

I’m in this 🤠 Order a copy!!

Read this essay if you want to learn all the ways I was SLANDERED by a so-called friend! 😛

Meet our new managing editor, elena ! Elena Macdonald (they/she) is a writer from Virginia. Their work has been featured or is forthcoming in The Ekphrastic Review, Kitchen Table Quarterly, and Twin Bird Review - OPEN FOR SUBS!. Elena is grateful and excited to be taking on this role.

New micro-fiction out hehehe pls read it it’s so teensy jakethemag.com/dormitory/

Make like sophomores and exchange Kara's piece like an omen: jakethemag.com/dormitory/

New piece just dopped! Go read "A Pound of Cure", published by the good folks over at TheMaineReview !!!

I just got my copy of Ninth Letter in the mail and it is GORGEOUS ✨🏰✨ Check out my essay part of my Hildegard of Bingen book while you’re at it!

"Over and over again, these poems hum with a strange accuracy about what it’s like to walk the streets of the empire we call home." Lloyd Wallace on Matt Broaddus' "Deeper the Tropics" Fonograf Editions clereviewofbooks.com/these-lit-part…

new poem out! happy pride! twinbirdreview.com/macdonald-31.h… Twin Bird Review

I have three excerpts from a long poem I’ve been working on in the new issue of Rougarou 🪦🪦 rougarou.org/excerpt-from-w…

One of my favorite long-form short stories just found a home with the excellent folks at BOOTH! Go give Dirty Laundry a read over on their website!!

I was sitting next to them playing games on my phone and listening as the interview was being conducted—it’s great!

Up on the Poetry Daily site today, my interview with Matt Broaddus 🌕 poems.com/features/what-…

New lit mag alert! 🚨 Chatterbox! is a fiction mag dedicated to long short stories!! Founded by Connor Harding, Jessika Bouvier and myself! We are rebelling against shortening attention spans everywhere! Visit us at chatterboxlit.com

"In the living room, when everyone else is asleep, the mother drowns herself in YouTube tragedy videos: natural disasters, cave diving accidents, remarkably violent murders."

The world’s most documented sea serpent was found in Gloucester, MA btw … check out this icon in my new flash nonfic!