Select Journal Publications:
Poetry:
“Crown Cinquain to Explain a Succession of Injuries” appears in Of Rust & Glass: No. 18, Discoveries.
“Lucky Rice” appears in ONE ART: a Journal of Poetry.
“Schoolhouse” appears in three forms, along with a brief making-of-the-poem interview, in the Winter ‘23-‘24 print issue of Lily Poetry Review.
“Brother” appears in the Spring 2024 Issue of Anti-Heroin Chic.
“Religion: An Assay” and “Stop Light” appear in print in SOS Art’s Anthology, For A Better World 2024: Poems & Drawings on Peace & Justice by Greater Cincinnati Artists.
“My Mother Recalls, “ appears in Silver Birch Press’s online ALL ABOUT MY MOTHER Series.
“Van Gogh Speaks from His Deathbed ” appears in Issue 27 of Panoplyzine as the Editors’ Choice poem and was subsequently nominated for the Pushcart Prize.
“Cold Moon” appears in the summer issue of Sheila-Na-Gig online.
“Steep Personal Stakes” and “Making Chinese Dumplings” appear in print in The Well’s Mindful Poetry Moments 2024 Anthology.”When the World Was Holy” appears in print in Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel: Appalachian Fusion (Volume 27).
“Self-Portrait as a Turntable “ and “Self-Portrait as Joy” appear in print in the anthology Power of the Feminine ‘I’. Ed. Donna Biffar and Christal Ann Rice Cooper, ThreshPress Midwest, 2024.
Three previously published poems in the Feb. issue of Verse Virtual: “Loss Palindrome,” “Mountain Song for My Nephew,” & “Three Foxes Appear in as Many Moons.”
“I Sing About Ping” and “Eight Years Old in the Corn Rows” appear in Of Rust and Glass, the Awakenings Issue, Feb. 2024.
“Somewhere Beyond Our Solar System” appears in print in Volume 26 of Pine Mountain Sand
& Gravel: The Strange, Stranger, and Estranged Side of Appalachia., Fall 2023.
“Lunar Triad” appears in the October 2023 issue of Black Moon Magazine.
“Address From a Lanternfish,” appears in The Fib Review Issue #46 from Muse-Pie Press.“
“A Clogyrnach: Hireath” and “On a Visit to St. Mary’s Cemetery” appear in Shot Glass Journal. https://www.musepiepress.com/shotglass/ellen_austin-li1.html
“At the Manlius Swan Pond” in the Fall 2023 “Crone Power Issue” of Gyroscope review. https://www.gyroscopereview.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Crone-Power-Issue-2023-min.pdf, pg. 60.
“Portrait in Green” will be reprinted in 2023’s Common Threads, the Ohio Poetry Association’s anthology.
“Great-Great Grandmother: A Fiction” and “Consider the Seahorse” to appear in the fall issue of Still: The Journal, October 2023. https://www.stilljournal.net/ellen-austin-li-poetry2023.php
“River of Clouds” in the Fall 2023 issue of Sheila-Na-Gig online.
“Self Portrait as a Turntable” and “Self Portrait as Joy” will appear in Thresh Publication’s anthology, Power of the Feminine ‘I’, Fall, 2023.
“Adirondack Forest,” in a special follow-up issue for Fall 2023 called HEART SOURCE & HAVEN Blue Heron Review #17.
“Womb Song” in SWWIM Every Day, May 22, 2023.
“When My Mother Took Me to Get a Library Card,” “For My Mother Who Sweeps,” and “Poem With a Line from Wordsworth” in the 2023 Mindful Poetry Moments anthology.
“The Theft” in print in Ibbetson Street #53, Spring/Summer Issue, 2023.
“Poisoned Tritina (March 2022)” and “Under the Second Wave” appear in the 2023 anthology For a Better World: Poems & Drawings About Peace & Justice, SOS Art, Cincinnati.
“On the Dock” and “Ireland (Fabius, N.Y.)” appeared in the April 2023 issue of Verse Virtual.
“The Ghost of the Yum Yum,” appeared in print in Salamander Spring/Summer 2023.
“Winter Birth” appeared in the Summer 2023 Issue (6.1) of Thimble Literary Magazine.
“Cantilever” appears in Locks & Bones & Bells & Stamps & Maps, the 2022 Lexington Poetry Month Anthology.
“Ripples” appears in the Gyroscope Review, Winter 2023.
“Conversation with Dr. Zhivago’s Lara in the Backseat of an Uber On the Way Home from My Therapy Appointment (Where My Therapist Told Me an Attachment Disorder Affects My Marriage)” appears in the December 2022 issue of Atticus Review.
“Spring Morning at Bryce Canyon” and “We Hitchhiked to Jamesville Quarry” in The Well’s Mindful Poetry Moments 2022 Anthology.
“The Hidden,” in the Ohio Writer’s Association 2022 Anthology, Metamorphosis.
“The Rainstorm” in the August 2022 issue of Anti-Heroin Chic.
“Mountain Song for My Nephew” in print in Lily Poetry Review, Issue 8, Summer 2022.
“Undertakers”; “Robber Bees”; “Honeycomb Tattoo”; “Nurses”; “The Day My Husband Stood in the Spring Sun”; and “Two Queens”; and “Shadow Puppet” in Deep Overstock Issue 17: Beekeeping. Summer 2022.
“Three Foxes Appear in as Many Moons” in pacificREVIEW’s 2022 edition: ATLANTIS and other lost places.
“Anam Cara” in the Summer issue of Sheila-Na-Gig online, 2022.
“Spring Morning at Bryce Canyon” on the website for The Well as part of their “Mindful Poetry Moments” with The On-Being Project. https://www.thewell.world/about/news/2022/04/06/mindful-poetry-gathering–april-6th-2022
“House of Trees” and “The Katsura at 4249” in Poetry Contests for a Cause’s anthology Whispering Willow: Tree Poems, with book proceeds to benefit the Arbor Day Foundation.
“Waiting for Brood X (The Seventeen Year Cicadas),” “Winter Constellation over the Loretto Motherhouse, Nerinx, Kentucky,” and “Wild Hive” in the anthology Anthropocene: Poetry about Environment, StudioKroner, 2022.
“The Curtain” in Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel: Appalachia (Un)Masked (Volume 25), 2022.
“In Which Little Red Riding Hood Learns a Lesson” in Words, Spring 2022.
“Found Poem of War” in New Verse News https://newversenews.blogspot.com/2022/03/found-poem-of-war.html, March 1st, 2022.
“Hemlock Ashwood” in SOS Art’s Spring 2022 exhibit, “Insideout: An Affirming Epiphany,” response poems to transgendered-individuals portraits.
“Visible Woman” in Masque & Spectacle, https://masqueandspectaclejournal.wordpress.com/2022/03/01/visible-woman-ellen-austin-li/, March 2022.
“If a Woman’s Eggs Had No Expiration Date,” “Means Freedom in Hebrew,” “At Home in the World” and “To Save My Sister from Drowning” in Pink Panther Magazine, March 2022.
“Wound City Diptych” in Solstice Literary Magazine, Spring 2022.
“Monarch,” “Magicicada,” and “Incidental Pollen” in Stone Canoe, March 2022.
“Ohio Song” in I Thought I Heard A Cardinal Sing, Ohio’s Appalachian Voices, Anthology, 2022.
“Ekphrasis of a Face on a Tree ” in SWWIM Every Day, Feb. 2022.
“Fade” in Gyroscope Review’s “Crone Power” issue, 2021.
This City, These Riots” & Fourth of July 2020” appear in the 2021 SOS Art anthology For a Better World: Poems & Drawings on Peace & Justice by Greater Cincinnati Artists.
“Postcards from the Pandemic” was published on the webpage of Cincinnati’s Poet Laureate Emeritus, Pauletta Hansel, as part of the Postcards from the Pandemic project in April 2020.
“Ventilate” was published by New Verse News in August 2020.
“This is Not a Safe House” was published by New Verse News in May 2020.
“House of Trees” in Firefly, Finishing Line Press, 2019.
“Petal Light” in Lockdown: Scenes from Early in the Pandemic, Finishing Line Press, 2021.
“Delphi Falls” in Panoply, May 2019.
“Fourth of July 2020” and “This City, These Riots” in SOS Art’s 2021 anthology For a Better World: Poems for Peace and Justice.
“Smoke” & “To Recapture Faith” in Indolent Books’ series, Poems in the Afterglow, Nov. 2020.
“Smoke” and “To Recapture Faith.” in Indolent Books, Transition: Poems in the Afterglow, Nov. 27, 2020
“Adonis” in Literary Accents, January 2021.
“Rendezvous at Round Lake” in Green Briar Review, May 2019.
“To the Boy with the Golden Hair” in Panoply, January 2022.
“Wild Hive” in Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel, Fall 2018, and Firefly, Finishing Line Press, 2019.
“Portrait in Green” in Rust + Moth, Summer 2021. Nominated for 2021’s Best of the Net Anthology.
“Special Exhibit (Inside Ragnar Kjartansson’s Video Installation ‘The Visitors’)” in Masque & Spectacle, Issue 17, March 2019.
“Winter Solstice” and “Loss Palindrome” in Anti-Heroin Chic, December 2019.
“Pica,” in Thimble Literary Magazine, Vol. 3, Issue 3, Winter 2020
https://www.thimblelitmag.com/2020/11/07/pica/
“All the Good Things” in Riparian-Anthology: Short Prose, Poems, and Photographs Inspired by the Ohio River, 2018.



