I'm absolutely thrilled that my essay, "Colony Collapse," has received both a Pushcart Prize nomination and a Best of the Net nomination from the wonderful folks at @terrainorg.bsky.social--a beautiful magazine that I hold in such high esteem! www.terrain.org/2025/news/20...

I'm SO looking forward to reading in support of unMothered, unTongued (@ugapress.bsky.social) via Zoom this Sunday afternoon, November 23, at 2:00 p.m. Eastern Time. Link to register via EventBrite (and read bios/get more information) here: register: bit.ly/4nk33Rt

Check out the latest issue of Midway Journal with Contest Results (my #CW crocodile piece placed third! woohoo!) Thank you, @oozannesay.bsky.social, @artichokeheart.bsky.social and Ralph Panell, and congrats everyone who won and is in the issue! midwayjournal.com/how-to-avoid...

#CW piece... Very honored by this win and pub, and thank you again, @artichokeheart.bsky.social , @oozannesay.bsky.social and Ralph Pennel. midwayjournal.com/how-to-avoid... Thank you @grantamag.bsky.social and @marinabenjamin.bsky.social for the great memoir workshop that birthed this.

I'll be reading October 29, at 7:00 p.m. at The Heller Center (1250 N. Campus Heights Drive) in Colorado Springs for the UCCS Visiting Author Series to support my new book, unMothered, unTongued from @ugapress.bsky.social : For more information call 719-255-6277 or email [email protected].

My essay "The Unbearable Privilege of Breathing," written during the heart of COVID-19, is published in the latest Writer's Chronicle as a sneak peak for unMothered, unTongued, newly released from @ugapress.bsky.social. writerschronicle.awpwriter.org/TWC/2025-oct...

This week in Atlanta: I'm delighted to be reading from unMothered, unTongued, winner of the AWP Sue William Silverman Prize for Creative Nonfiction, newly released from @ugapress.bsky.social, this Thursday, October 9, at 7:00 p.m., at the Emory Bookstore (First Floor).

I'm back from the Western Maryland Independent Literature Festival in Frostburg, MD, where I had such a wonderful time! Grateful, too, for the upcoming venues that will be hosting me as unMothered, unTongued continues to make its way into the world.

I'm excited to be giving the kickoff reading for the Indie Lit Festival on September 26, at Main Street Books, 2 East Main Street in Frostburg, MD. This will be my first reading out for unMothered, unTongued, newly released from @ugapress.bsky.social ! www.frostburg.edu/center-for-l...

Today is the official release day for unMothered, unTongued!!! Order from @ugapress.bsky.social here: www.ugapress.org/978082037443...

So happy to have placed 3rd in Midway Journal's Contest! Congratulations to the other winners, and big thanks to @artichokeheart.bsky.social Ralph Pennel, Suzanne Richardson, and all of the editors. Look forward to reading the winners and the issue in October!

My parents' anniversary was August 6, the tenth anniversary of tHiroshima, the day my mother aid she "drop the bomb" on her parents. I write about this in my essay, "The Atomic Age," from unMothered, unTongued: Order here, from @ugapress.bsky.social: www.ugapress.org/978082037441...

So grateful for my conversation with Charles K. Carter as part of the #SundaySweetChats series, Season 3, Episode 4, which premieres on YouTube today (and will be available for viewing after premiere), August 24th, at 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time! Check it out here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zbvz....

Tonight (Thurday, 8/21/25)! 6:00 p.m. Eastern Time! I'll be reading via Zoom for the Phosphorescence Contemporary Poetry Series, presented by The Emily Dickinson Museum with Cathy Linh Che and Monica Ong! Click below to register: emilydickinsonmuseum.org/phosphorescence-august-2025

The first copy of my book, unmothered, unTongued, arrived this weekend and I'm absolutely thrilled! Immense gratitude to the team at @ugapress.bsky.social for their stunning work: the covers, the interior, the paper . . . all so lovely Order/preordering link below: www.ugapress.org/978082037441...

A link for 30% off list price for unMothered, unTongued by Lee Horikoshi Roripaugh below: outlookuga.sharepoint.com/sites/Librar...

It's here! My proof is here! Cover reveal for Unrivered, coming from @sundresspub.bsky.social. Pre-orders begin August 26, and I'll be sharing blurbs and links over the few weeks.

Humbled and honored to be on the shortlist for the Lammy's. Thank you, @diodeeditions.bsky.social, editors, and @lambdaliterary.org and the judges. Blown away! And thanks to everyone who has supported my book and writing! Congrats to all the finalists also!❤️

Columbus folks: it would mean the world to me to see you at the launch reading of What's Left Is Tender on 8/18 at 7 PM at Prologue Bookshop.

Read this beautiful interview with @kalekim.bsky.social in the International Examiner, where she discusses her inspiration for Mele and encouraging words for aspiring poets. 💛💜💛💜 iexaminer.org/northwest-ba...

Éireann Lorsung, Pattern-book / @eireannmor.bsky.social @carcanet.bsky.social ; robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/07/eire...

So grateful for my poem "Sequelae: A Mapping / Jishin-no-ben" to be included in the new issue of @riseupreview.bsky.social alongside a wonderful array of terrific poets! Many thanks to Sonia Greenfield and the Rise Up Review team! www.riseupreview.org/lee-ann-rori... #ResistanceIsFertile

I'm thrilled (and nervous) to share the preorder link for my essay collection, unMothered, unTongued, winner of the AWP Sue William Silverman Prize for Creative Nonfiction, which will be released by @ugapress.bsky.social on September 15, 2025. www.ugapress.org/978082037441...

I have a poem from my forthcoming collection with @triohousepress.bsky.social in the new issue of South Dakota Review! Thanks to @artichokeheart.bsky.social for including me! A stellar issue on Day 16 of National Poetry Month, friends! Oh! & I love this poem’s little nod to Bhanu Kapil! 💙

Immense gratitude to the amazing Jillian Sico at The Press at Colorado College, who created this gorgeous letterpress broadside featuring an excerpt from the concluding short story Reveal Codes, "Space." <3

I'm so happy to share the cover reveal for my book of lyric essays, whih was named winner of this years' Sue William Silverman Prize for Creative Nonfiction in the AWP Awards Series, forthcoming from @ugapress.bsky.social.

For today's #YearOfTheSnake thread, we focus on #snake -themed #poetry, like this aptly named collection by @artichokeheart.bsky.social with themes of transformation, mixed-race female identity & #JapaneseMythology opac.sub.uni-goettin...#YearOfTheSnake#snake#poetry,#JapaneseMythology#AsianAmericanLiterature #AmericanLiterature #LunarNewYear

Today's Featured Poem: "#meteorology" by Lee Ann Roripaugh (@artichokeheart.bsky.social), from #stringofbeads, published by Diode Editions. Read here: poems.com/poem/meteoro...

In the midst of awfulness, I'm super grateful to have this wintry mix of linked tanka, #meteorology, from my chapbook #stringofbeads (Diode Editions, 2023) featured on @poetrydaily.bsky.social today! Click on link below to read! poems.com/poem/meteoro...

Read Lee Horikoshi Roripaugh (@ArtichokeHeart.bsky.social)’s new poem “Decadence: A Mapping / Jishin-no-ben” from our Fall issue: www.vqronline.org/fall-2024/po...

Great mail day today! Many, many thanks to @artichokeheart.bsky.social for including my poems “Ars Poetica: Meeting Momotaro at my Gallery Opening” and “The Kite” in Volume 58, Number 3 of the wonderful South Dakota Review!

So much gratitude to be featured by @hotredheadmedia in the first episode of Season 4 of Booktails, reading from my story collection Reveal Codes (@MoonCityPress) with cohosts @hfowlerwrites and @ReineDugas! Check it out here: www.hotredheadmedia.com/booktails/ep...

I'm delighted to formally announce THE ROSE METAL PRESS FIELD GUIDE TO WRITING THE LYRIC ESSAY, edited by Heidi Czerwiec and me, which will be forthcoming in 2026. Details and a full listing of contributors in the link! rosemetalpress.com/preview-the-...

Reveal Codes revealed in Meatspace! So much gratitude to all of the amazing folks at Moon City Press for making this dream come true! Order here: www.uapress.com/product/reve...

Another box opening! This time it’s Reveal Codes by @artichokeheart.bsky.social Lee Ann Roripaugh, winner of the 2022 @mooncitypress.bsky.social Moon City Short Fiction Award!

Another box opening! This time it’s Reveal Codes by @artichokeheart.bsky.social Lee Ann Roripaugh, winner of the 2022 @mooncitypress.bsky.social Moon City Short Fiction Award!

Another box opening! This time it’s Reveal Codes by @artichokeheart.bsky.social Lee Ann Roripaugh, winner of the 2022 @mooncitypress.bsky.social Moon City Short Fiction Award!

Ten years in the making, my collection of short stories, Reveal Codes, winner of the Moon City Press Short Fiction Award, is now shipping form Moon City Press! I'd be so grateful if you'd consider placing an order. www.uapress.com/product/reve...

@artichokeheart.bsky.social's Reveal Codes, winner of the 2022 @mooncitypress.bsky.social Moon City Short Fiction Award, is ready to ship—still time to preorder now! www.uapress.com/product/reve...

JOB: The Asian American Studies Program and the Department of Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison seek to hire a tenure-track assistant professor in the area of Asian American Studies and gender/sexuality. Please share widely!

Only @alexanderchee.bsky.social could take me from Bram Stoker to Buffy to covid to 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. And as we know, I have a LOT of thoughts about vampires in pop culture so I set a high bar!

Luke Rolfes interviews me for The Laurel Review! Great questions—so happy to talk about The Amnesiac in the Maze! laurelreview.org/michael-czyz...

Big thanks to Naoko Fujimoto of Rhino Poetry for this lovely interview with Tom Hart & Kelcey Ervick about THE ROSE METAL PRESS FIELD GUIDE TO GRAPHIC LITERATURE! rhinopoetry.org/reviews/kelc...

Now available for preorder, with a release date of November 1 from @mooncitypress.bsky.social ! I would so grateful if you'd consider preordering, as it does so much for books/authors/presses. www.uapress.com/product/reve....

Today is the paperback release of my memoir THE BLACK PERIOD, and to celebrate its 1 year anniversary, it's got a new skin - a homage to being Black in the 80s. bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

Wrote about Taylor Swift, Edith Wharton, double perspective, and how social media is a form of creative nonfiction lithub.com/beth-nguyen-...

My review of Sam Sax's amazing new collection Pig is live at Tinderbox Poetry. #poetry tinderboxpoetry.com/reframing-su...

hi! sharing my video poem at Sugar House Review, in their new Sugar Suites— www.sugarhousereview.com/ss2/quipo%3A...

It has been a *forever* dream of mine to publish a book-length collection of fiction, and now my first book of short stories, Reveal Codes, winner of the 2022 Moon City Press Short Fiction Award, is available for preorder! www.uapress.com/product/reve...