Samantha Lucia

Work

Poems, stories and photographs,
and where each one lives.

From the seam of myth, ancestry, and the body—everything below is published or accepted, grouped by form, and linked to its publication.

Credits
46
Published
38
Forthcoming
8
Publications
29

Honors

  • 2027 Best of the Net nominee

    “What the Darkness Knows (what the roots remember)”

    — nominated by Poetries in English

  • Best in Issue

    “ZARAH”

    — Not Quite Right Read the citation

  • Contest win — The Poet Heroic

    “Veritas”

    — Poem of the Week, The Poet Heroic

  • Contest win — Sour Winery

    “O, marrow of the forgotten ones”

    — first winner of Sour Winery’s inaugural Bitter Word contest

Poetry

Poems and micropoems, most recent first.

28 credits

  1. THE LEDGER OF SILENCE

    1455 Women Writers Anthology

    September 2026Forthcoming
  2. Dear woman who summoned the devil and caught me instead

    Poetries in English · Issue 2.1

    October 2026Forthcoming
  3. Wolf Tone

    Poetries in English · All Access

    Forthcoming
  4. A Small Liturgy

    Poetries in English · All Access

    Forthcoming
  5. Demeter's Other Daughter

    Poetries in English · All Access

    Forthcoming
  6. Telegram

    Poetries in English · All Access

    Forthcoming
  7. verdigris

    Rotten Fig · Issue 1

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    August 2026
  8. sepsis

    Poetries in English · All Access

    August 2026
  9. to the eucalyptus branch that cleared more than my sinuses

    Poetries in English · All Access

    August 2026
  10. INSURANCE APPROVED

    Writers Resist

    June 2026
  11. Maintenance

    Corporeal · Volume 24

    June 2026
  12. In which the forest and a bird conspire to ruin me gently

    Not Quite Right · Issue 1

    June 2026
  13. Crisper

    100subtexts · Issue 45

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    May 2026
  14. Vestige

    electric pink · Issue 1

    Musical golden shovel

    April 2026
  15. Glass Cage

    Twisted Tongue · Issue 2

    April 2026
  16. Breathless

    Spellbinder · Issue 22

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    April 2026
  17. What the Darkness Knows (what the roots remember)

    Poetries in English · Issue 1.8

    2027 Best of the Net nominee

    April 2026
  18. THE LEDGER OF SILENCE

    Poetries in English · Issue 1.8

    April 2026
  19. A Small Apostasy

    January House Literary Journal · Issue 6

    March 2026
  20. Held by the Spell

    Cabochon Review · Issue 1

    March 2026
  21. Veritas

    The Poet Heroic

    Poem of the Week — contest winner

    February 2026
  22. Perforce

    Lunar Sea Literary · Special Issue 0

    February 2026
  23. O, marrow of the forgotten ones

    Sour Winery (Vinegar Press) · Newsletter #5

    First winner of Sour Winery's inaugural Bitter Word contest

    February 2026
  24. ABOVE and BELOW

    Corporeal · Volume 22

    January 2026
  25. The Breath That Answers the Tongue

    Yin Literary · Issue 4

    January 2026
  26. Between

    Yin Literary · Issue 4

    January 2026
  27. O, marrow

    smols

    Micropoem

    December 2025
  28. By Whose Breath

    cloudymoon

    November 2025

Flash Fiction

Short fiction.

2 credits

  1. ZARAH

    GossamerWight · Unstable Realities

    Reprint

    Forthcominglast week of September 2026
  2. ZARAH

    Not Quite Right · Issue 1

    Best in IssueContributor's Spotlight

    June 2026

Photography

Fine art and mixed media photographs.

12 credits

  1. Hush

    Witches Magazine

    Fine art photograph

    Accepteddate to be announced
  2. Differential

    COPE Magazine · Volume 4 (Summer 2026)

    Photograph · buy the issue

    August 2026
  3. The Meeting Ground

    Belladonna's Garden · Issue 4 — Summer 2026 (“Rural Summer Gothic”)

    Fine art photograph

    July 2026
  4. The Last Oracle

    Genrepunk Magazine

    Mixed media photograph

    July 2026
  5. Fever Spell

    Fang and Flower · Issue 2 (“Heatwaves”)

    Fine art photograph

    May 2026
  6. Once Upon a Childhood

    Sardine Can Collective (now Fish Girl Collective) · Issue 6

    Fine art photograph

    April 2026
  7. Not Yet

    Belladonna's Garden · Issue 3 — Spring 2026 (“Poison Blooms”)

    Fine art photograph

    April 2026
  8. Temporal Loop

    M E N A C E · Issue 3

    Mixed media photograph

    April 2026
  9. The Sky Speaks in Petals

    Yin Literary · Issue 5

    Photograph

    April 2026
  10. Lunar Borne

    Witches Magazine · Issue 28 (Spring 2026)

    Photograph · buy the issue

    March 2026
  11. Ctrl+Alt+Delete the Sacred

    January House Literary Journal · Issue 5

    Mixed media photograph

    December 2025
  12. Of Blood & Propriety

    Fang and Flower · Issue 1 (“Veiled”)

    Fine art photograph

    December 2025

Poem and Photograph

Pieces published as a poem and a photograph under one title.

2 credits

  1. Attestant

    Tiny Prophecies

    Poem and mixed media photograph, same title · journal has closed (formerly Mercurial Silver)

    February 2026
  2. Subsumption

    Hum Magazine · Issue 1

    Poem and fine art photograph, same title

    January 2026

Visual Poetry

Poems that work as image.

1 credit

  1. GNOSIS

    100subtexts · Issue 45

    buy the issue

    May 2026

Hybrid

Work that sits between forms.

1 credit

  1. SHOW YOUR WORK

    Rivener Lit

    Poem in the form of a two-column mathematical proof

    April 2026

About

A writer, a photographer,
a wanderer with roots.

Born in Connecticut, transplanted to the American South, and diagnosed early with wanderlust. My spirit outpaces my body, which has strong opinions about the itinerary.

I write poems and flash fiction, take photographs, and follow the questions no one asked me to answer.

Married to the woman who anchors the wandering. Mother of four, with two already out in the world and two nearly ready to follow. Kept company by cats who consider me staff.

Currently at work on a novel, a cosmology, and whatever the next haunt asks for.

Correspondence welcome. samanthadlucia@gmail.com.

Dispatches

A quiet note now and then—new pieces, new projects, new letters.

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Titles link to their original publications. Full texts remain with the publishers. For reprints, rights, or commissions, please get in touch.