Michelle Li

Sometimes, I write.

• Select Publications
• Awards & Honors
• Experiences
• About & Contact

Selected Works

• Big, Big World in Idle Ink

• Ribs in Masque and Spectacle

• Where the sky has cracked itself open on a winter morning and two children are cold and bleeding in Tension Literary

• lily, lily in The Incandescent Review

• On Mornings in Lumina Journal

• Because I am in a room I don't belong in Blue Marble Review

• Elegy, Because I am Sorry in Stone of Madness Press

• I Try Searching For You in Definitions in Gastropoda Literary

• Where I take a walk into the night that approaches in The Incandescent Review

• Ribs in Paper Crane Journal (forthcoming), reprint

• It Took A While in The Incandescent Review

• I should have left for Walden Pond, Concord in Luxury Literary (forthcoming)

• Big, Big World in The Expressionist Literary, reprint

• Notes From a Sane, Self-Proclaimed Writer in Fleeting Daze

• Big, Big World in Winged Penny Review (forthcoming), reprint

• Ribs in Winged Penny Review (forthcoming), reprint

• Wither on the Vine in wildscape. literary journal (forthcoming)

Awards and Honors

Rising Voices Awards 2024 Fiction Finalist
Scholastic Art and Writing, Alliance for Young Writers, National Silver Medal
Scholastic Art and Writing, Alliance for Young Writers, Poetry Gold Key
Scholastic Art and Writing, Alliance for Young Writers, Personal Essay and Poetry, Silver Key (x2)
The Waltham Forest Poetry Competition, Commended, 2023
Quills and Keyboard, 1st Place Creative Nonfiction, 2023
Young Writer's Journal Winner, 2024
Austin Youth Poet Laureate Finalist, 2024
Apprentice Writer, Runner Up in Outstanding Fiction, 2024
Sophon Lit, Shortlist, Annual Contest, 2024

Experiences

Tutoring
English Tutor for Learn to Be
2 time PVSA Gold Medalist
F is for Fluency Tutor (former)
Jasper English Tutor (former)Editing
The Cleverly Creatives, staff writer (former)
The Incandescent Review, editor
Pen and Quill Magazine, senior editor
The Malu Zine, editor
The Expressionist Literary, prose editor
The Dawn Review, editorPrograms
92Y Unterberg Poetry Center Alumnus
Kenyon Review Summer Young Writer's Program
International Women's Writing Guild Rhode Island Conference
Incandescent Review Summer Mentorship Program, Teaching Assistant
Cleverly Creatives, Poetry Counselor

About and Contact

Michelle Li lives in TX and enjoys writing. She has been nationally recognized by Scholastic Art and Writing, The Waltham Forest Poetry Contest, The Rising Voices Awards, published or forthcoming in Blue Marble, Masque and Spectacle, and Lumina Journal among others. She is an alumnus of the Kenyon Review's Young Writer Summer Workshop; you can find her on the board of the Incandescent Review, and The Dawn Review. She’ll read practically anything she can get her hands on, the more absurd and emotional the work, the better, and plays both violin and piano. She also has an unhealthy obsession with Rachmaninoff, morally grey characters, Sylvia Plath, and enjoys jump roping in her free time.

Contact:
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Instagram: @kitkat.7731