Selected Prose
Forthcoming
To You Who Lingers On — Running Wild Publishing
Ocean Burial — Aurora: Tales of Winter Dreams
Underworld Recognition — Hope in a Grimdark World
Memory Span — Penumbric Speculative Fiction Magazine
Bare Branches — Cutleaf
Mayuri — Spoon Knife
Sitting Month — Passages North
Boy — Flash Frog, January 2026
Overdue – The Nassau Review, (Winner of 2024 Doyle Award)
2026
25 Weeks — Sunlight Press, January 2026
2025
Collateral — Drek Death and Doom, November 2025 (print)
Breach — Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, November 2025
Fidelity — Bitter Wolf, November 2025
Terminal — Oyster River Pages, September 2025
Means of Survival — matchbook, August 2025
Realism — Plorkology, June 2025 (print)
Snake Son — Barely South Review, May 2025
Longevity — Isele Magazine, April 2025
Archive — Flash Point SF, April 2025
2024
Garbage Fish – Boudin, November 2024
Root Rupture – Death in the Mouth, September 2024 (print)
Proximity to Life – Astrolabe, September 2024
Skipped Practice – Cosmic Horror Monthly, July 2024
We Were Buried Before We Were Drowned – Shenandoah, June 2024
Flavors of Wealth – No Contact, June 2024
Indigestion – Bluestem Magazine, June 2024
Trust Exercise – Adi Magazine, May 2024
Blessing – Graywolf Lab, April 2024
Unseen – Revolute, April 2024
Forsaken Daughters – The Massachusetts Review, March 2024
Recommendation Algorithm – Cream City Review, March 2024 (print)
Remains of the Stars – The Ilanot Review, March 2024
Layered House – Ette Review, March 2024
You Were Not Icarus – Coppice Prize, February 2024 (2nd place)
Mutant Gourd – Cotton Xenomorph, February 2024
Tengu – Wigleaf, February 2024
Albert – Bridge Eight, January 2024
Evaporation – Short Edition’s Money Chronicles, January 2024
Leftovers – Flame Tree Publishing Shadows on the Water, January 2024 (print)
2023
Blood Pantry – Southwood, November 2023 (print issue 45)
Reef Construction – Channel Magazine, November 2023 (print issue 9)
小燕子 – Crab Creek Review, October 2023 (print)
Withering – Dark Matter Presents: Monster Lairs, October 2023 (print)
What is Mine is Yours – Westerly, October 2023 (print issue 68.2)
Blooming – Fractured Lit, October 2023
Plastic Dragon – Scarlet (Jaded Ibis Press), October 2023
Life Wager – Apex Magazine, September 2023
Into the Light – NewMyths, September 2023
We Enjoyed the Expired Items – Epoch, August 2023 (print Volume 70, Number 2)
Outsider – Flame Tree Publishing Lost Atlantis Short Stories, August 2023 (print)
Ruination – Flame Tree Fiction Newsletter, August 2023
Autumn Without Rain – Heartlines Spec, July 2023
I’m worried dad will only remember that humans suck – RHINO, July 2023 (print)
Heart Theft – carte blanche, June 2023
Any Respectable Distance – Split Lip Magazine, June 2023
Donation – Frigg Magazine, June 2023
Di Di – Blue Earth Review, June 2023 (print, Spring 2023 issue)
Devil’s Needle – It’s Freezing in LA, May 2023 (print Special Edition: Creative Responses to the Climate Crisis)
If serendipity could stretch the earth like taffy – ellipsis, May 2023
Burning the Ocean – Tasavvur, May 2023
How to Escape Retirement – Samjoko Magazine, May 2023
Burning – The Saltbush Review, May 2023
Crash – Arkana, May 2023 (editor’s choice award)
Clumped Dough – Centaur, May 2023
Final Molt – Mud Season Review, April 2023
Sentencing – Air & Nothingness Press’s Gargantua, April 2023 (print)
Balk – Mythaxis Magazine, April 2023
Replacement – FOLIO (Issue 38, print), April 2023
Here Are the Lies – Canthius, March 2023 (Issue 11, print)
Ao / 鳌, Ba She / 巴蛇 – Diode Editions’ Beyond the Frame Anthology, March 2023 (print)
The Snake Priestess – Puerto del Sol, March 2023 (print)
Aftermath – Tamarind Literary Magazine, March 2023 (print)
I saved you in every life – CRAFT, February 2023
Our Teeth Were Still There – The Spectacle, February 2023
Relationship Shortage – Salt Hill, January 2023 (Issue 48, print)
2022
Arranged Marriage – Gingerbread Literary Magazine, December 2022
Aftermath – Tamarind, December 2022 (Issue 4)
Material Reuse – Shoreline of Infinity, December 2022 (Issue 33, print)
Moonshot Projects – Andromeda Spaceways Magazine, November 2022 (Issue 88, print)
Considerations for Bringing Mom to Group Therapy – The Worcester Review, November 2022 (Volume 43, print) (Nominated for Pushcart Prize)
Pearl Farm – Smoke and Mold, November 2022
Bad Apple – Baltimore Review, November 2022 (Nominated for Pushcart Prize)
Cravings, If I go to long without eating – Tilted House, November 2022
If We Floated Home – Sapiens Plurum, October 2022 (1st place in Sapiens Plurum Short Fiction Contest)
Chasing the Heron – The Pinch, October 2022 (Issue 42.1, print)
Cycle Control – Gigantic Sequins, October 2022 (Issue 13, print)
Like a Tree Stump – long con magazine, October 2022 (Nominated for Pushcart Prize)
Tree Spirit – The Willowherb Review, October 2022
The baby dreams of a role model – Rivanna Review, September 2022
Cutting Ties – Moon City Review (finalist in Salt Hill’s Arthur Flowers Flash Fiction Prize), September 2022 (print)
Limbless – Meetinghouse, September 2022 (print, issue 2)
Escaping the Butterfly Effect – BART Short Fiction Contest, September 2022 (selected as 1 of 30 finalists)
When We Abandoned God – Last Girl’s Club, September 2022 (Issue 7, print)
Relocation Package – Prolit Magazine, September 2022
Evidence of a Soul – Cottonwood (print)
Joy Machine – The Molotov Cocktail, August 2022
Imprinting – Southern Humanities Review, August 2022 (print issue 55.2)
Bearing Fruit – Taint Taint Taint Magazine, August 2022
No one sleeps on an empty stomach – Flash Fiction Online, August 2022
Clean Up – The Theatre Phantasmagoria, August 2022
Delayed Arrival – Cast of Wonders, August 2022
Hypothalamus – Science Write Now, August 2022
It is Possible I was too Sheltered – Parsec Ink (1st place in Parsec Ink “Hearth, Song, Table” theme)
Dream Valuation – Defenestration.net, July 2022 (finalist in 2022 short story contest)
I can’t tell if dad blames me for losing his grandchild – Ice Queen, July 2022
What It Takes to Shatter Wood – SAND, June 2023 (print issue 24)
Rusting – Interzone (292/293 joint issue, print), June 2022
Stasis – Cossmass Infinities (issue 9, print), June 2022
How the Pineapple Cakes Disappeared Before Their Expiration Date – Vassar Review, June 2022
How We Were Born – MAYDAY Magazine, June 2022 (Winner of MAYDAY 2022 Flash Fiction Contest, Selected for Wigleaf Top 50 2023)
Unstable Relationship – Exposition Review, June 2022 (Nominated for Best of the Net, Selected for Best Microfiction)
Mixed State Copy – The Fabulist, June 2022
We don’t say “I love you” in this family – Whale Road Review, June 2022 (Selected for Best Small Fictions 2023)
End Destination – Woodward Review, May 2022
The Attic Doesn’t Lead to Antarctica – MumberMag, May 2022
Afterlife – Tree and Stone, May 2022
Adaptive Morphologies – Assignment, May 2022
XY – Fireside Magazine, May 2022
Mothering – storySouth, May 2022
Funeral Preparation – Quarter After Eight (print, Volume 28)
Ownership Records – Lunch Ticket, April 2022
Which way are we polarized, Decision Making, Making Time For Pests – Wigleaf, April 2022
Resource Optimization – Paperbark Literary Magazine, April 2022 (3rd in flash fiction contest)
Like Chalk – Apple Valley Review, April 2022
Whalefish – BoomerLitMag, April 2022
Iron Deficiency – AAWW’s The Margins, March 2022
Feeding – SmokeLong Quarterly, March 2022 (Nominated for Best Microfiction)
Why I’m dry tonight and every night – Passages North, March 2022
No Hummus – Chapter House Journal, March 2022
Resurrection – The /tƐmz/ Review, March 2022
I lack a sense of direction on some spatial coordinates – Apparition Literary Magazine, February 2022 (winner of February flash fiction contest)
It has been two years since we’ve been to China because nonessential travel isn’t allowed, and we’re still not going back for Lunar New Year – American Literary Review, February 2022 (Longlisted for Wigleaft Top 50 2023)
Bonchon Chats – Cutleaf, February 2022
There were times I wish you were dead – The Rupture, February 2022
When the meteorologist says it’s not totally due to pollution – MudRoom, February 2022
Saving the Savior – OxMag, February 2022
Anchored – Harpur Palate, February 2022
Xian Dan – Height Chart, February 2022 (finalist in Editor’s Choice award)
The 37% Rule – descant (print), January 2022
Magpie – Josephine Quarterly, January 2022
Century Egg, Who believes god is always watching – The Offing, January 2022
Reflection Eater – Hennepin Review, January 2022 (winner Hennepin Review’s inaugural flash fiction prize)
The Effects of Collagen – Peatsmoke Journal, January 2022
If God Had Miscarriages – Unbroken Journal, January 2022
Trigger – The MacGuffin, January 2022 (print)
Perigree – Solarpunk Magazine, January 2022 (winner of December micro fiction contest)
2021
Spicy Stew – The Rumpus, December 2021
Offering – EcoTheo Review (winner of 2021 short fiction contest, print), December 2021
Garlic Garden – Barely South Review, December 2021
Fruit Selection – Minola Review, December 2021 (Finalist for Best of the Net)
Panacea – Etherea Magazine, December 2021
To you, 100 years from now – Necessary Fiction, December 2021
A Boundary Beyond Which Events Cannot Affect an Observer – Ruminate Ma gaze’s The Waking, December 2021
How to Get Married at 22 – Hypertext Magazine (winner of 2021 Doro Böhme Memorial Essay Contest), December 2021
Late Bloomer – Penumbra Online, December 2021
Self Repair – Planet Scumm, November 2021 (print)
Osteo-odonto-keratoprosthesis – MORIA, November 2021
My AI has an affinity for cheese – Quarterly West, November 2021
Hide and Seek – Nat. Brut, November 2021
Calcification – New Orleans Review, November 2021
Qualia – Chestnut Review, October 2021 (Nominated for Pushcart Prize)
Proficiency – W&S Quarterly, October 2021
Mislabeled – Brink (print), October 2021
Outgrowth – Protean, September 2021
Anterograde – Mslexia, September 2021 (Roots issue 91)
The Carriage Became A Pie – DIAGRAM, August 2021
Grafting – Three-Lobed Burning Eye, August 2021
If sea bass ate humans – Tahoma Literary Review, August 2021 (print)
Teach Me All There Is to Know, Cinderella Has Anterograde Amnesia, Effects of Prenatal Exposure to Pollutants on Behavior in Later Childhood – Wax Nine, August 2021
Egg Wishes – Four Way Review, August 2021
How to make me orgasm – The Cincinnati Review, August 2021 (interview) (Finalist for Best of the Net)
Survival Instincts – Native Skin Online, August 2021
This is a divorce story – Honey Literary, July 2021
Unfolding – Orca, July 2021 (print)
Footprint – Funicular, July 2021 (print)
Jiaozi – The Portland Review, July 2021 (Selected for Best of the Net)
Hydrogenation – Meow Meow Pow Pow, July 2021
Cog – The Suburban Review, June 2021 (print) (interview)
I will relax in the next life – Milk Candy Review, June 2021 (interview)
Growing Bones – Headland, June 2021 (interview)
You say that like I’m going to die – Vestal Review, June 2021 (Nominated for Pushcart Prize)
Synesthesia – Thin Air Magazine, June 2021 (Runner-up in The Bird in Your Hands Prize)
Mutation – DREGINALD, May 2021
Spear Against Shield, Playing Zither For The Cow – Posit, May 2021
Hatchling – Threadcount, May 2021
There’s no floss after the zombie apocalypse – GASHER, May 2021 (Nominated for Pushcart Prize)
Water Hands – Pif Magazine, May 2021
Character Development – Oyez Review, April 2020
Thigh Gap – Hobart, March 2021
Room Tour – Invisible City, March 2021
Tofu and Chives – Zoetic Press’s NonBinary Review, March 2021 (print)
Bluebeard’s Sister – THE BOILER, February 2021
Seagulls would leave it spotless – The Santa Fe Writers Project Quarterly, February 2021
The Fox and the Tiger – Figure 1, January 2021
Nurturing – Fractured Lit, January 2021
Escaping Purgatory – The Conium Review, January 2021
Swan Garden – Contrary, January 2021 (Nominated for Best of the Net)
Chairs and Steps – Paranoid Tree, January 2021 (print) (Nominated for Pushcart Prize)
2020
Where is the Mouth? – Hypertext Magazine, December 2020 (Nominated for 2020 Best American Short Stories)
Soft-Shelled Turtle – EX/POST, December 2020 (Nominated for Pushcart Prize)
Issues of Concurrency – Jet Fuel Review, December 2020 (Nominated for Best Small Fictions 2021)
Code Baby – Third Point Press, November 2020 (Selected for Best Microfiction 2021)
It’s hard to decide without knowing the future – Atticus Review, October 2020 (Nominated for Best Small Fictions 2021)
They say if you acknowledge a problem, it becomes real – Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, October 2020
The Other Side – Pidgeonholes, October 2020 (Nominated for Best Small Fictions 2021)
Cracked – Jellyfish Review, October 2020
The Stone Girl – Cheap Pop, October 2020 (Selected for Best Small Fictions 2021, Nominated for 2021 Pushcart Prize)
Hospitalized – Peach Mag, September 2020
Centralized Task Scheduling – HAD (Hobart After Dark), September 2020
Bad Qi – Litro, August 2020
Like a bowling ball without the holes – The West Review, August 2020
Harvest Season – Parentheses Journal, June 2020 (Nominated for Best of the Net)
Paper Clips Are Not Biodegradable – Gone Lawn, June 2020
Dispatch from a Pandemic: Cupertino, California – Another Chicago Magazine, June 2020
Eating Disorders as an Algorithms Problem Set – Crab Fat Magazine, May 2020 (Finalist in Best of the Net 2020)
Double Flash – Atlas & Alice, April 2020 (Nominated for Best Small Fictions 2021)
Diets – Okay Donkey, April 2020
How do I get unlost on my own – Jellyfish Review, March 2020 (Nominated for Best Microfiction 2021)
The Genie Asks For Too Much – Columbia Journal, March 2020 (Honorable mention in Womxn’s History Month Special Issue)
The People Without Faces – Barren Magazine, March 2020 (Longlisted in the 2021 Wigleaf top 50)
The Clockmaker – X-R-A-Y Magazine, February 2020
To the inhabitant of the attic – Timber Journal, February 2020
My Response – Porridge Magazine, January 2020
2019
Sound is a Vibration – MoonPark Review, December 2019
Generic Brand – Tiny Molecules, December 2019
An Uninspired Kidnapping – The Disappointed Housewife, December 2019 (Nominated for 2020 Sonder Press The Best Small Fictions)
Paper People – Scoundrel Time, November 2019
Find the full list of prose publications here
Interactive/Hybrid/Digital
Forthcoming
2022
Cinderella has Anterograde Amnesia – HTML Review, April 2023
2022
Thoughts from a self-perceived hero – Hayden’s Ferry Review, May 2022
Greedy Algorithm – KALEIDOSCOPED, March 2022
2021
Because the world is trying to kill you, have some tonic herbs – Black Warrior Review, September 2021
Backspace – West Branch (part of the Document(s) issue), May 2021
Before Happily Ever After – Corvid Queen (Sword & Kettle Press), April 2021 (Nominated for Best of the Net)
Money Baby – Superstition Review, April 2021
Atomic Excitation, Bone Baby, Words I think of while drinking fish head soup and learning how 爷爷 died – Midway Journal, April 2021
Sapling – F I V E S: A Companion to Denver Quarterly, March 2021 (Nominated for Best of the Net)
Neuron – The Hunger, February 2021
The baby has to wait until after the apocalypse – Tagvverk, January 2021
Thorn Baby – ctrl + v, January 2021
Heat death didn’t stop us from being shut-ins – HOAX, January 2021
2020
Audio Segmentation – New Delta Review, December 2020
Poetry
2022
Burden – Arc Poetry Magazine, March 2022 (print issue 97)
Salted Pork – Zone 3, January 2022 (print Vol. 36, No. 2 Fall 2021)
Scab, Frenectomy – Prospectus, January 2022 (print issue 5)
2021
High-Dimensional Space – The Night Heron Barks, May 2021
Ban Lan Gen – The Cortland Review, March 2021
Heart Correction – Decameron Writing Series, March 2021
Only We Were Left, Maillard Reaction, Lacto-Fermentation – The Shore, March 2021
Ice Burial – Serotonin, January 2021 (Finalist in the New Year’s contest)
Ice Cream Truck – Rogue Agent, January 2021
2020
4 poems (Rice Cake, Eye Hole, We Will Eat Ourselves, Why can’t you just be nice) – SOFTBLOW, November 2020
Digging Logistics – Blood Orange, March 2020
Smog – Honey & Lime, January 2020
Art
Forthcoming
Box World – Roanoke Review
2022
Wing Selection – Nunum, July 2022 (Nominated for Best Microfiction, Best of the Net)
How we manufactured love – Redivider, June 2022
2021
Reflection – The Fourth River, November 2021 (Graphic Narrative)
Garbage Collection – Up the Staircase Quarterly, November 2021 (Graphic Narrative)
Collaborations
Bitter Nails – Heavy Feather Review, Text by Joshua Jones and Ruth LeFaive, Interactives by Lucy Zhang, March 2021*
Cosmic Wanderings (3 micros) – Heavy Feather Review, Text by Neil Clark, Interactives by Lucy Zhang, December 2020*
Being the Murdered Housekeeper, The Magician Performs Miracles – Heavy Feather Review, Text by Cathy Ulrich, Interactives by Lucy Zhang, November 2020*
Inedible Human Foods – Heavy Feather Review, Text by Jason Teal, Interactives by Lucy Zhang, November 2020*
*Part of I CAN SEE YOU WRITE
Lucy Zhang 