Meep Matsushima, poet

Publications

2024
dislocation	blood orange for a city where I can't survive read about "dislocation"'s publishing journey

2023
haunted house	disabled tales we miss/ our bodies in the city "haunted house" originally appeared in you are here
Changeling Child	Not One Of Us Or, The Oak King's Champion Rescues a Baby… print-only
down by the river, dreaming	disabled tales our tails split into two unsteady legs
~if the sky can crack~	Archive of the Odd I know you're not supposed to eat faerie food so I packed protien bars and a water bottle.

2022
Annotated Bibliography of a Haunting	Voidspace I am telling you a story. I am telling you the truth. updated version of "I don't want to write poetry…"

2021
Shabbos Girlfriend	Strange Fire …crowned in the last raws of sunset gold and the light of the first stars
haunted house	You Are Here: Bodies & Politics this ghost and me, we're both mourning the same thing
Janet's Song	Corvid Queen I am no beauty but I can hold on to what I want with both hands.
Summer Court Love Story	Liminality Magazine I want the flavor of ice cream that tastes like his kiss.
東京百景: 100 Views of Tokyo	Second Chance Lit the streets unfolded for me "100 Views of Tokyo" was a 2022 Best of the Net finalist.

2020
The Believers	Strange Horizons When the lights first appeared in the sky we called them angels "The Believers" was a 2021 Rhysling Award nominee.
Kings & Queens of Narnia	Microverses to make yourself disappear through a magic door "Kings & Queens of Narnia" was a 2021 Rhysling Award nominee.
Edith	Microverses let me be salt

2019 & earlier
"I don't want to write poetry…"	…about girls turning into birds or boys disappearing through magic doors republished as "Annotated Bibliography of a Haunting"
Civilian Casualties	The Real LJ Idol …super hero by night, library media specialist at Essex Junction High School by day.

About

drawing of Meep (a white female-presenting person with curly brown hair, brown eyes, and heavy black glasses by rinylyn.tumblr.com Meep Matsushima (松島美色布みぃーぷ) used to be a portal fantasy protagonist but now is a school librarian. is a disabled¹ genderqueer lesbian. Originally from New England, Meep got name in Tokyo, where she lives with her black cat familiar.
¹several acronyms: hEDS, ME/CFS, ADHD, OCD, PMDD, &c.

In 2011, Meep graduated summa cum laude from Simmons ~~College~~ University with a BA in East Asian studies and minors in communications and gender studies. has a MFA Writing for Children & Young Adults from Hamline University MFAC. Meep's critical thesis focus was grief in children's literature.

Meep's poetry has been nominated for the Rhysling Award (2021) and Best of the Net (2022). middle grade novel-in-progress, Alternate Universe was a Walter Grant finalist in 2020.

Meep can be reached via email (meepmatsushima@gmail.com).

Meep's pronouns are she/her &/ æ/ær. If an honorific is required, please use Ms. Matsushima.

自己紹介

松島美色布みぃーぷ（Meep•Matsushima）と申します。
黒い猫と一緒に東京に住んでいる。仕事は学校司書だけど、興味はファンタジーの詩と子供用な絵本を書く。
Xジェンダーのレズビアンだ。
日本語がペラペラではないけど一所懸命頑張ります。よろしくお願いしま。

Contact

Email

email:	meepmatsushima@gmail.com

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