"What is the difference between recipes and a spell book? Is anything more precious than the liminal?" A stunner woven with magic from @mykkirioswrites.bsky.social in @ettereview.bsky.social ettereview.com/summer2026/r...

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Mykki Rios in -ette-review Issue 8: Summer 2026

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Absolutely honored to be in such a lovely issue as this, please check out my piece 'COMMIT THIS TO MEMORY'

-ette review@ettereview.bsky.social · 2w ago

New issue, new podcast, new call for submissions! -ette’s 2026 summer issue features fresh, new work by @aabalaskovits.bsky.social @christophercitro.bsky.social @noranadj.bsky.social @caitlinohalloran.bsky.social @megpokrass.bsky.social @mykkirioswrites.bsky.social ettereview.com/summer2026/

It's my birthday, please go read any of my recent work (or older work), you can find new poems by me in: The Bulb Region Cartridge Lit electric pink Lucky Creature BRUISER

And what then might lie beyond the socket? Would you see my true insides? RAVENOUS by @mykkirioswrites.bsky.social www.bruisermag.com/Rios_Ravenous

Thanks to Atrium for hosting my poem about cocktails and yearning! Read it here!!

Atrium@atriumpoetry.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Lemongrass – Mykki Rios @mykkirioswrites.bsky.social atriumpoetry.com/2026/03/03/l...

My eyes melted into a font of quicksilver and screamed stars down my face. WHEN THE COSMIC HORROR KISSED ME by @mykkirioswrites.bsky.social www.bruisermag.com/Rios_Cosmic

Should I put something about using my drag name as my handle on every other social platform in my bio? I know I should make things more uniform but idk I don't think of my drag or makeup as separate from my writing or anything else, that's not really my approach. I'll think on it idk.

Oh look that's me! I forgot to promote this on here, but please read, I'm so proud of this poem

HAD@havehashad.com · 7mo ago

every single line in today's Mykki Rios poem is so perfect and great! "a lot of my best days have begun with one large perfect pancake, so now it’s a habit i believe in fortunes and rituals and magic, let’s get that out of the way now" https://www.havehashad.com/pkeac

Thank you to Tampa Review for my first ever Pushcart Prize nomination! It's an honor to have my poem 'I dream of trying on wedding dresses' rubbing elbows with so much other great art #writing #writingcommunity

For the first time in a long time I am back on top of poetry submissions and it feels great. Now to work on my most ambitious short story yet to submit to a certain publication in January!

You can now read two of my favorite poems from my time living in Colorado, 'PLENTY' and 'PYRE'! One is very grounded in daydreaming, and one is very unstable from nighttime dreaming. Thank you to Dodging the Rain for having me.

Dodging the Rain@dodgingtherain.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Mykki Rios, Plenty and Pyre PLENTY sometimes i gaze out west at the Rockiesi imagine myself going up in the mountainslearning to foragegoing out and finding flowers to brew into meadmushrooms jutting from bark and peeking from under wet leavesthere would be alliums growing just out of sight from…

Feature writeup from Synkroniciti about my poems in their newest issue! I've worked with this magazine several times now, and they're always a delight. synkroniciti.com/recovery-fea...

“Recovery” Featured Artist Mykki Rios

Synkroniciti is thrilled to welcome back poet Mykki Rios of Chicago with two poems. The first is “7 DAYS TO THE 2024 ELECTION,” exploring the uncertainty of the time before Trump was re…

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I'll post a picture later but my copy of @justfemmeanddandy.bsky.social Just Femme and Dandy Mixtape came in the mail today! So cool to have my poems about lip gloss printed in a very chic deconstructed zine format, I love having a physical record of my work

Reminder that you can read my recent work in: HAD Londemere Lit Tampa Review Synkroniciti Magazine

I highly recommend having a former English teacher as your therapist if you're a poet. It's so nice when they have insight into both your personal and creative issues.

You can read my poem 'I DREAM OF TRYING ON WEDDING DRESSES...' in issue 69 of Tampa Review and I hope you do. Look at that gorgeous cover art. Happy Pride have some very gender fluid writing! utampapress.org/product/tamp...

Tampa Review 69 - University of Tampa Press

Fiction by Mara Beneway, Caroline Bodian, and Kevin Mulligan. Poetry by Josette Akresh-Gonzales, Gaylord Brewer, Jonathan Cannon, Jo Ann Clark, Kevin Clark, Chloe Cook, Sharon Dolin, Edward Mayes, My...

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Look, you can read my first ever published short story 'SUPERNATURAL SPEED DATING' in the dulcet issue (no. iv) of londemere lit, linked here! I hope you find much to love in my little queer urban romantasy. Please let me know your thoughts. Feel free to share. londemerelit.weebly.com/issues.html

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I've always felt like I need to say I'm really excited about my upcoming work being published and I always am on some level but lately I've been feeling like some really hard won accomplishments that I love with all of me are blooming around me and I'm buzzing to share

I forgot to post here yesterday but you can read my poem 'AUCTION HOUSE' on @havehashad.com website, please check it out! This is a dream publication for me to be working with, I'm so grateful

FIRST SKULL!! I can feel the victory madness overtaking me thank you so much @havehashad.com

Generally speaking I think it's better to write and figure out where you want to end up but I will admit I thought about my first creative nonfiction essay that I'm going to submit tomorrow for so long it sprang from my head like Athena from Zeus

New job training is crazy, but I'm 10 for 10 on daily poems for National Poetry Writing Month, and I'm going to write a scene for my fiction project this weekend, and draft an essay in the next ten days, and there's other stuff to come, and I guess what I'm saying is nothing will stop me

Six days into national poetry writing month and finally a new first draft I feel went somewhere fun (I'm trying for one per day, we'll see with new job starting tomorrow)

Officially got confirmation in the night that my first short story is going to be published! I'm a fiction writer now, this is so wild and wonderful

Heard back (it was a no) about a submission I had sent in so long ago I'd forgotten what was in the packet, opened the packet on my laptop, and involuntarily murmured "fuck you, these are great" anyways I stand by my work lmao

Freezing rainstorm today, it has been perfect weather to listen to the new Lucy Dacus

New day job acquired, two publishing acceptances in one day, I am relishing victory. One of those poems I've submitted more than five places previously. Never give up.

Six hours and some back and neck pains later I have screeched and wailed and clawed my way to being once again on top of my #poetry submissions and we're just going to ignore the #essay that is looming for me to write I have like a month exactly ok

New Weatherday album is perfect end of winter #music

I had a writing professor in college who said most new writers worry what they have to say is "too weird" or "too boring", which I think is true. However, I've realized I've unlocked a new fear recently, being "too pretentious", which somehow feels like both of the previous options at once. Fun!