Stephanie Niu

I feel no doubt if I continue my studies I shall in due time be a Poet.

-Ada Lovelace

Selected Poems

"Cicada Season", featured in Immigrant Report in April 2020.
Image by Christina Roman c/o Immigrant Report.

Press

"Niu recognizes humankind’s tendency to use ourselves as a baseline for understanding what life is."

- Hopkins Review, "Double Homage: Stephanie Niu Responds to Tracy K. Smith"

"The language invites us to spend time with it, inside of it, like opening our eyes underwater and examining an unknown landscape."

- Sundress Reads, "Review of 'She Has Dreamt Again of Water'"

"Information Worker at the End of the World."
Ecotone. Issue 32. Summer 2022.

“Terrain Terrariums."
Waxwing. Issue 27. Summer 2022.

"Call it Miraculous."
Ruminate Magazine. Issue 62. June 2022. .

“Abecedarian for Pinyin."
Philadelphia Stories, Sandy Crimmins Poetry Prize Runner-up.
Spring 2022.

“Exploding Whale Day."
No, Dear. Issue 28, Water. Spring 2022.

"I Drive as My Family Sleeps," "The Road from the Mountains," "Lake Lanier," and "Hummingbirds."
Georgia Review. Spring 2022.

“Diver Walks into the Sea and Stays" and "Swordfish."
Honey Literary. Issue 2. July 2021.

“Garbage Boogie."
Breakwater Review, Peseroff Poetry Prize Finalist.
Issue 30. June 2021.

“Southbound."
perhappened mag. Issue 11, "Homecoming." May 2021.

The Birds: 4 poems.
ENTROPY. May 2021.

“At the Top of the Hill, Unnamed Graves of Workers They Didn’t Bother to Carry Down."
Poets Reading the News. March 24, 2021.

“To The Beaver's Eyes." March 2021.
"River Talks," 11th St.Louis River Summit.
Published in "A River of Poems."

“A Guide to What Lives Between Land and Sea."
Storm Cellar, Force Majeure Flash Contest 2nd Prize.
 Vol. 9.1. February 2021.

“How To Eat A Peach."
Glass Mountain. Volume 25. January 2021.

“By These Things We Live."
Inverted Syntax, Sublingua Prize for Poetry Runner-up.
Issue 3. November 2020.

“A Lao Jia Song Is a Song of Home."
Southeast Review. Vol. 38.2. November 2020.

“What Cars Remain" and “Abstinence.”
 Midway Journal, 1000 Below Flash Contest 3rd Place Winner.
Vol. 14, Issue 4. October 2020.

"Just Beyond Our Walls (reading)."
 Spring Creek Project, "The Nature of Isolation." October 2020.

"Midden / Appetite."
Portland Review. June 2020.

"Cicada Season", “On the Way to 86th Street," and "Ya Li."
Immigrant Report. April 2020.

“Hometown" and “Vision of America.”
Not Very Quiet. Issue 5. September 2019.