Writing

Books

Hope You Blend In: Studies in Color & Light, Poetry (Broadstone Books, 2024)

Poetry

"Death Anniversary," "In the Kitchen with Ghosts," "Dogwood Call," "The Sandias Welcome Me Home." Impossible Task. Issue 12. May 2024.
"Melodramatic Interlude." Cimarron Review. Issue 216-18. Summer/Fall 2021 and Winter 2022.
"Study in Brown." Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, Number 23, 2021.
"Portrait of the Artist in the Modern Age." Cream City Review 44.2, Fall/Winter 2020.
"Rice Street Haibun" & "Portrait of a Filipina on her 37th Birthday." Bamboo Ridge, Issue 118, 2020.
"Study in White" & "Study in Black." Tri-Quarterly. Issue 158, Summer/Fall 2020.
"Study in Yellow." Emrys Journal. Vol. 37 - 2020.
"Study in Blue" & "(Re)incarnation." Puerto del Sol. Vol. 55.1, Spring 2020.
"What Will Become of Me." Normal School Online Magazine. Dec. 18, 2019.
"Oh, Brother!" Poetry is Dead's Small Towns Issue 20, November 2019.
"This is Not the Jesus Year." Arc Poetry Magazine. Issue 89, Summer 2019.
"Baptism for the Living" Dovecote Magazine. Issue 2, Summer 2019.
"Upon Learning of Michael Slager's Conviction" & "@Glacier Point, Yosemite National Park." Peatsmoke. Spring 2019.
"Asiatic Bittersweet." Zone 3. Volume 34, No. 1, Spring 2019
"I Never Talk About the Blood." Contrary. Winter 2019.
"@Penacook Ave" and "@290 E21st Street." deComp. September/October 2018.
“@Limekiln State Park II.” Gnarled Oak. Issue 10. Oct-Nov 2016.
“@Limekiln State Park I” and “@ the Dentist.” Third Wednesday – A Literary and Arts Journal. Vol. IX, No. 4. Fall 2016.
“@ Griffith Park Observatory II.” Antithesis. Volume 26: Liminal (2016).
"@ Joshua Tree National Park," "Fiesta Weekend," & "Love Song for Randi." In Parenthesis. Summer 2016.
“@ Griffith Park Observatory I.” Stone Path Review. Vol. 3, Issue 12, Fall 2014.
“Outside the Fourth Story Window" & “Winter Arrives Late in Albuquerque” 200 New Mexico Poems. May 24, 2012 & Nov., 2012.
“Lessening” & “August and No A.C.” Gertrude. Issue 18, Summer 2012
“The Convergence Zone." 99 Poems for the 99 Percent. Feb. 1, 2012. Reprinted in the 99 Poems for the 99 Percent: Anthology of Poetry. San Francisco: 99 The Press, 2014.
“Upon Viewing Man Ray’s Noire et blanche.” Gargoyle. No. 57, Summer 2011.
“To Shannon, Upon News of her Engagement (to Someone Else).” From “Shapeshifting Poems: The Power of Transformation” by Lisa Chavez. Wingbeats: Exercises & Practice in Poetry. Austin, Texas: Dos Gatos Press, 2011.
“Alamogordo Blues.” The Single Hound. Spring 2011.

Creative Non-Fiction

“Cash Cow.” The Sun. September 2015. Issue 477.
“The Dress.” Duke City DimeStories. February 2014. Reprinted in the DimeStories 10th Anniversary Anthology, Dec. 2014
“Oh, Yolanda: Writers Respond to Typhoon Haiyan.” Vela Magazine. November 2013.

Interview Appearances

"Samantha Tetangco Interview." Poetry.LA, September 27, 2020.
"Featuring Samantha Tetangco." Plume: A Writer's Podcast.September 14, 2020.

Fiction

“Parrish Hall.” Foglifter. Volume 3, Issue 1. April 2018.
“Sarah and the Mantis.” Duke City Dime Stories. March 2014. (Flash Fiction)
“City of Lost Angels,” an excerpt from The View From Here. As Us Journal. Issue 1. Spring 2013.
"Everything Lights Up Red." Oklahoma Review. Vol. 11 Issue2/Vol. 12 Issue 1, Fall 2010 and Spring 2011 Combined.
"Asking For It." Phoebe. Fall 2010.
"Jules." Tayo Literary Magazine. Issue 2, Fall 2010. (Flash Fiction)
“Hindsight.” Six Sentences. Dec. 2009. (Flash Fiction)

Audio Projects

Creative Projects

Safe & Sound, Summer 2023, in-progress.

Plume: A Writer’s Podcast, Co-producer and co-host. Sept. 2020-Sept. 2022. Interviews:

Revision as Spiritual Practice: A Conversation with Crystal (K.) Odelle. September 6, 2022.
Mothers & Daughters, featuring Jennifer Ghivan, Lena Ghivan, Ileisha Saunders, & Odyssey Miranda Mercado, June 2, 2022.
It’s Okay to Be a Late Bloomer: a Conversation with Jessamine Chan. May 16, 2022.
A Novel in Progress: a Conversation with Melanie Unruh, April 1, 2022.
A Plume Collage of Voices, November 23, 2021.
Witchy Writers: a Roundtable with Jenn Ghivhan, Britt Ashley, and Dawn Sperber, October 25, 2021.
Writing in Small Bites: a Conversation with Nari Kirk, October 12, 2021.
Literary Magazines: a Roundtable Discussion with Brenna Gomez, Rhea Ramakrishnan, Samantha Tetangco, Dawn Sperber, and Melanie Unruh, September 28, 2021.
You Don’t Have to Write Anything: a Conversation with Paula Treick DeBoard, September 14, 2021.
Writing Real People: a Roundtable with Jameela F. Dallis, Cynthia Patton, and Cassie McClure, August 24, 2021.
Art Is Us: a Conversation with Lisa D. Chavez, August 10, 2021.
Feminist Writers: a Roundtable with Casandra Lopez, Erin Adair-Hodges, & Suzanne Richardson, July 27, 2021.
Writing Has Saved My Life: a Conversation with Cynthia Sylvester, July 13, 2021.
LGBTQ+ Writers: a Roundtable with Marlena Chertock, Belinda Kremer, and Summer Wood, June 21, 2021.
Naming the Aswang: a Conversation with Elsa Valmidiano, June 8, 2021.
Writing Moms: a Roundtable with Julia Halprin Jackson, Christina Socorroo Yovovich, and Jennifer Jordan Schaller, May 25, 2021.
Soon It Will Be Blueberry Season: a Conversation with Tia Clark, May 10, 2021.
A Tribute to Jennifer Simpson, February 17, 2021.

Other

A Writers’ March. Blog. Est. Feb 2011.z
“Changing the World One Interview at a Time: A Conversation between Nia King, Art Activist, and Guest Editor, Samantha Tetangco Ocena." As Us Journal. Summer 2013.
Bloomsbury Review. Vol. 28, Issue 1, May/June 2008. “New Tracks Laid by Lise Erdrich in Night Train.” Book review.
CALYX: A Journal of Art and Literature by Women. Vol. 25 Issue 1, Winter 2009. “New Tracks Laid by Lise Erdrich in Night Train.” Book review reprinted.

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