Creative Publications

My creative work includes novels, novellas, poetry, chapbooks, letter-press art books, and then publications in journals and anthologies.

These two books, both published by RedBone Press, were also Lambda Literary Finalists.

  • When the Sun Once Again Sang to the People (KRK Ediciones) was a bilingual chapbook that Liamar Durán-Almarza translated and published in Spain. It has a beautiful introduction, and features one section of the longer manuscript, Injured Stone, as of yet unpublished but winner of the 2007 National Latina/o – Chicano/a Prize in Literature.

I self publish a series on lesbian love and loss (yes – tragic lesbian stories) through Tanama Press. There are currently two novellas featured as part of this series:

And, then, I have decade-long projects, which result in limited-edition letterpress art books. The first of these was published in 2015:

  • Cantos (limited letterpress art book, music – there are 36 copies in total).

We can expect the next art book in 2025.

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Here is where you can find some of my other published work.

Poems:

  • “After the Sunset” in Gabbin, Joanne V. & Lauren K. Alleyne, eds. Furious Flower: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry. Northwestern University Press. [forthcoming]
  • “Each Night” in Gabbin, Joanne V. & Lauren K. Alleyne, eds. Furious Flower: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry. Northwestern University Press. [forthcoming]
  • “Sit” in Gabbin, Joanne V. & Lauren K. Alleyne, eds. Furious Flower: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry. Northwestern University Press. [forthcoming]
  • “América ” in Nathaniel Popkin and Stephanie Feldman (eds) Who Will Speak for America?: Imagining a National Community After Trump. Temple University Press, June 2018.
  • “Gazing Across Time at Myself” in Sargasso special issue, Write It in Fire: Tributes to Michelle Cliff. http://www.caribbeansexualities.org/2017/08/30/poetry-ana-maurine-lara/, April 2017.
  • “Diary of Two Black Girls in the Dark” in Sargasso special issue, Write It in Fire: Tributes to Michelle Cliff. http://www.caribbeansexualities.org/2017/08/30/poetry-ana-maurine-lara/, April 2017.

Stories/Personal Essays:

  • “The Sun Once Again Sings to the People.” In Marion Rohrleitner and Sarah E. Ryan (eds.) Dialogues Across Diasporas: Women Writers, Scholars, and Activists of Africana and Latina Descent in Conversation. Lanham, MI: Lexington Books, 2013: 139-150.
  • “Halfie” Callaloo, Volume 32, number 2, part II (Spring 2009): 414-420.
  •  “Cimarrona Ciguapa” In Moore, Lisa C. (ed.). does your mama know? An anthology of black lesbian coming out stories. RedBone Press, (2009): 76-82.
  • “The Tide” in Cheryl Clarke & Steven G Fullwood, eds. To Be Left with the Body. Los Angeles, CA: AIDS Project Los Angeles (Spring 2008): 68-73.
  • “The Point that is My Pen.” Sinister Wisdom 74 (2008): 156-160.
  • “La Ciguapa” Sable LitMag. Winter 2007: 36-47. **Winner of the 2007 PEN/Northwest Award**