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

• Aloe Vera in Aster Lit

• Wither on the Vine in Aster Lit

• Texas in Summer, Let's Have an Hour Underneath the 8pm Sky in Chantarelle's Notebook

• 3 Poems in Eunoia Review

• Of Love in Frazzled Lit

• Lullabies for Extinct Things in The Inflectionist Review

• In another life, I'm sure... in Sontag Magazine (forthcoming)

• 2 Poems & 1 Prose Piece in Temz Review

Awards and Honors

Rising Voices Awards 2024 Fiction Finalist
Honorable Mention (x2), Regional Scholastic Arts and Writing Awards, 2024, 2025
Silver Key (x3), Regional Scholastic Arts and Writing Awards, 2023, 2024
Gold Key (x3), Regional Scholastic Arts and Writing Awards, 2024, 2025
National Silver Medal, National Scholastic Arts and Writing Awards, 2024
National Silver Medal, National Scholastic Arts and Writing Awards, 2025
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
Bennington Young Writers’ Awards, First Place, 2025 (1st out of 5800)
National High School Poetry Contest, Topical Winner, 2025
National High School Poetry Contest, JUST POETRY! National Winner, 2025
Starlit Award, Honorable Mention, Aster Lit, 2025

Experiences

Tutoring
2 time PVSA Gold MedalistEditing
The Incandescent Review, Editor in Chief
Pen and Quill Magazine, senior editor
The Dawn Review, editor
Hominum Journal, Executive 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
Adroit Summer Mentorship, Mentee

About and Contact

Michelle Li has been nationally recognized by Scholastic Art and Writing, Bennington Young Writers Awards, and Apprentice Writer. She is an alumna of the Kenyon Review Young Writer's Workshop and will be attending The Adroit Summer Mentorship--her work is forthcoming or published in Aster Lit, wildscape. literary, and Third Wednesday. She is Editor in Chief of The Incandescent Review, executive editor of Hominum Journal, and edits for The Dawn Reivew. In addition, she plays violin and piano, loves Rachmaninoff, blackberries, and the rain.

Contact:
[email protected]
Instagram: @kitkat.7731