I write poetry, flash, creative nonfiction, speculative fiction, reviews–and I’ll probably have picked up another few genres by this time next year. My work often circles themes of grief, the body, religion, queerness, and womanhood. I will be a summer 2026 resident at the Sundress Academy for the Arts as I work on my first poetry collection, All of Our Mothers Are Dead.
I’m currently a Literature Editor at fifth wheel press and an Associate Fiction Editor at Okay Donkey, and I’m a Founding Editor of the Monarch Queer Literary Awards. I read slush for Flash Point Sci-Fi.
In 2025, I had the honor of guest editing issues 13 and 13.5 of Carmen et Error. In 2024, I was a Nonfiction Fellow at Abode Press, and I guest edited a special issue of fifth wheel press’s magazine, GARLAND, on queer speculative fiction.
Selected Publications
Poetry
- “If I must exist here” in Haven Spec Magazine
- “Holy Days” in Strange Horizons
- “All of Our Mothers Are Dead” in Fantasy Magazine
- “Every morning is a morning” and “Two by Two” in Headlight Anthology
- “How to Write a Poem” in BRAWL
- “The Confession” in Stone Circle Review
- “It was always like this” in JAKE
- “On Tuesday, We Take a Trip to Saturn” in Small Wonders
- “Gods from Machine” in Psaltery & Lyre
- “Every month for forty years” and “Only Then” in ballast journal
- “The Skeleton Cafe” in Orion’s Belt
- “Buried Gospel” in Carmen et Error *nominated for Best of the Net
Prose
- “Sempre libera” in Stonecoast Review (CNF), forthcoming
- “The Sunset” in surely magazine (flash fiction)
- “It’s a Miracle” in Yalobusha Review (CNF)
- “The Arrival” in Halfway Down the Stairs (flash fiction)
- “Fragments of the Letter I Keep Tearing Up” in Barnstorm Journal (CNF)
- “Cheap Talk” in dreamland, ed. nat raum (fifth wheel press) (flash fiction) *nominated for Best Small Fictions
Reviews & Essays
- Review of The Visible Field by Zoe Ryder White in Cleaver
- Review of Larks by Han VanderHart in Door is a Jar *Awarded the 2025 Door is a Jar Award for Book Reviews
- Review of <bo(d)y rendering> by A. Deshmane in Up the Staircase Quarterly
- Review of I Am Never Leaving Williamsburg by C.M. Green in Barrelhouse
- Review of Heat Death of the Universe by Leela Raj-Sankar
- Review of i’m probably betraying my body by linda harris dolan in ANMLY
- “When Everything Ends, What Comes After?: Narration, Time, and Memory in The Ruin” in The Hyacinth Review
Eleanor Ball 