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
Meep Matsushima (松島美色布) 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. In 2024, Meep (as Annie James Rollins) was chosen as Joëlle Retener's PB Rising Stars runner-up for picture book manuscript, The Remembering Blanket.
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.
Meep's incomplete CV is available here.
自己紹介
松島美色布（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。
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Meep Matsushima 2020-2024
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