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Writing Portfolio

Published Books

Navigating the Hallways by Starlight, Full-length Poetry Collection, 100 pages. Fernwood Press, forthcoming May 2026.

 

Only a Season chapbook, 40 pages, 18 poems, Bottlecap Features, January 27, 2024

 Only a Season, by Svetlana Litvinchuk - Bottlecap Press

 

Marigolds for Dinner foldout booklet of 12 poems published by Longhouse Press, February 10, 2024  Longhouse, Publishers & Booksellers - Home (longhousepoetry.com)


 

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“Earth/Body/Home” 1 poem in What the House Knows Anthology, (Terrapin Books March 2025).

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“Grinding Down a Tree,” “I Am Not Separate,” “Just Say the Word,” “Let What May,” “Red Planet,” “Sorry for the Interruption,” and “Tornado Season” in Propagate: Fruits from the Garden Anthology, pages 47-57, Western Michigan University Press, July 2024 Propagate: Fruits From the Garden | Dionysian Public Lib (dionysianpubliclibrary.com)

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“Leap Day and the Summer Sun” 1 poem in Northwind Writing Award Anthology, Raw Earth Ink, February 2025—https://raw-earth-ink.com/the-northwind-writing-award/2024-award-winners/

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About Place: Mothers of Mercy 1,2,3” and “Questions for the Earth” May 2025. Collaborative multimedia poetry/collage project with Heidi Neff.

About Place: Take Me to the Bank” October 2024.  

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ANMLY: If music is the sound between May 2025.

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Apple Valley Review: Birds in Captivity I” October, 2024. 

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Ariel Chart: The Limits of Resilience” September 2024.

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Arkana: You Forgot Yourself” December 2024.

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Big Windows Review: Warmth of Words or, The Day I Helped My Husband Blow Cellulose Insulation Into the Attic” March 22, 2024.

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Black Coffee Review: Earth/Body/Home” and “I Gave Away My Beauty” March 14, 2024.

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Cloudbank: Return to Lilacs,” June 2025. 

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Door Is a Jar (Door = Jar): A Home for Wasps” and “Cicada Year” June, 2025.

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Eunoia Review:A Butterfly for Every Occasion,” “All the Things We Keep for Later,” “Earth/Body/Home,” “Eyebrows,” “First Frost,” “Freezer Space,” “I Gave Away My Beauty,” “Lullaby,” “My Mother’s Backyard Rabbits,” “Stolen Gifts"

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Flyway Literary Journal: “Conversations with the River” forthcoming Fall 2025. 

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Gilded Weathervane: I Was Just Noticing” August 2024.

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The Inflectionist Review: How to Sleep During a Full Moon,” “Motherhood Half-Dream,” “Seraph,” June 2025.

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Iron Horse Literary Review: “The Bees Have Always Known" forthcoming February 2026. 

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Jet Fuel Review: Father as a Lost Landscape” November 2024.

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Lake Effect: “A Child’s Laugh Tumbles from God’s Lips”  forthcoming Spring 2026. 

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Littoral Magazine: Hands to Carry God,” “Holy War,” and “The Pain of a Thing So Far Away” pages 41-43, May 1, 2024. 

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Many Nice Donkeys: In My Wildfire Bliss II” Page 11, September 2025. 

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Marrow Magazine: “Night Is a Predator,” and “Of Animals, None So Cruel as Us” forthcoming Fall 2025.

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Merion West: Hands Together Ghazal January 26, 2025.

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Missouri Humanities Magazine: “In a Family of Pines,” 1 poem in, July 2025.

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Moon City Review: “Warbirds” forthcoming Spring 2026. 

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Mud Season Review’s The Take: “If music is the sound between II” forthcoming in 2025.

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New Verse News: Midwestern American Dream” August 12, 2024.  

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ONE ART: For My Daughter, On Her First Birthday May 12, 2024.  

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Plant-Human Quarterly: Tiny Winged Chaos of Almost Spring” June 20, 2024.

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Pleiades: “Lily Pond Near Our Desna Dacha” forthcoming Winter 2025. 

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Rockvale Review: Dreamfruit” November 2024.

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Rust + Moth: Time Breaks Everything” June 2025.

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Sky Island Journal: Monsoon Season in the Sandia Mountains” and “The Milk Nebula of My Body That Is No Longer My Body” April 27, 2024.

Sky Island Journal: Dear Almost-Friend” and “The Water Moon October, 2024.  

Sky Island Journal: Limonad” January 2025. 

Sky Island Journal: New Life” April 2025.

Sky Island Journal: 100 Names for the Void,” “Unbearable Joy,” June, 2025.​ ​

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Slippery Elm: “What Remains in the Kitchen Unchanged” forthcoming Fall 2025.

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Strange Horizons: I was a fish” August 2025.

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swamp pink: Eat the Rich” September 2025. 

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Swifts & s l o w s: Four Elements” December 2024.

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Syracuse Cultural Workers Datebook: “In My Wildfire Bliss” September 2025.

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Union Spring Review: Elegy for Paper Cranes Folded into Tomorrow’s Flowers” and “In This Economy?” October 2024.​

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wildscape.journal: How to Bulletproof a Mother’s Prayer,” July 2025.

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Willows Wept: Following the River Home” and “The Earth Beckons” Pages 13-14, September 14, 2024.​​​ ​ ​​

Appearances in Anthologies

Individual Poems in Lit Mags

Short Fiction

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“The Greatest Secret in the Universe” 1 flash fiction in Apocalypse Confidential, April 20, 2024 THE GREATEST SECRET IN THE UNIVERSE – APOCALYPSE CONFIDENTIAL (apocalypse-confidential.com)

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Song Adaptations

​​​“Heart Cup” 1 poem adapted to song released on March 31, 2024 by BTB Hits, available for streaming on Spotify, Youtube, and all major platforms https://youtu.be/mKld9ijhtws?si=ODWp4BaJsRgvaiot

Non-Fiction Essays

“Cooking with My Father” in Astrolabe on December 21, 2024 Cooking with My Father • non-fiction from Svetlana Litvinchuk • Astrolabe

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“On the Art of Sitting with Nature” 1 personal essay in Plant-Human Quarterly on September 20, 2024 in https://otherwisecollective.com/ph-mag-issue-14/on-the-art-of-sitting-with-nature

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“Where Is the Love: A Meditation on the Role of Love in Modern Poetry” 1 cultural critical essay in ONLY POEMS, February 14, 2025. Where Is the Love: A Meditation of the Role of Love in Modern Poetry — ONLY POEMS

Book Reviews

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