Celeste Sea

Publications

* = nominations, which can be found on NOMS

• the graduate // AAWW's The Margins // May 2023

• While Emerging from the Courts of Hell, Dong Xian Thinks about Cut Sleeves // Indiana Review // summer 2022

• In this one, Mulan lives // HAD // June 2022

• Review of 'Earth Room' // Harvard Review // May 2022

• Cowgirl and Laundry Boy// Waxwing // February 2022

• Bunny, Three Ways // Shenandoah // December 2021*

• Antioch / Shenandoah // December 2021*

• Vows // Shenandoah // December 2021*

• The Pool Party // Rejection Letters // December 2021

• Nuwa // Anomaly // November 2021*

• [chinatown restaurant] // No Contact // October 2021*

• Yang Lianting Redux // X-R-A-Y // October 2021

• your body is a memory in motion // The Blood Pudding // September 2021

• sing-sing // SmokeLong Quarterly // September 2021*

• Second Cart Sisters // Pigeon Pages // September 2021

• Cure-All // Tiny Molecules // September 2021

• The Wedding Dress // Sine Theta Magazine // September 2021*

• miss mosquito // trampset // September 2021

• Dennis Lee & Our Souls // perhappened mag // August 2021*

• Flood Stories // A Velvet Giant // August 2021*

• Heartland // Maudlin House // July 2021

• Heaven is High (and the emperor is far away) // Sine Theta Magazine // May 2021

Best Small Fiction 2022 for 'Dennis Lee & Our Souls'
Selected by Sonder Press

Winner, X-R-A-Y Special QTPOC Issue with 'Yang Lianting Redux'
Judged by Daisuke Shen & Liz Crowder

Finalist, CRAFT Literary 2021 Short Fiction Prize with 'your body is a memory in motion'
Judged by Kirstin Valdez Quade

Winner, Pigeon Pages 2021 Summer Flash Contest with 'Second Cart Sisters'
Judged by Dantiel W. Moniz

Winner, Sine Theta Magazine 2021 Summer Writing Contest with 'The Wedding Dress'
Judged by R.F. Kuang

5x Pushcart-nominated: "[chinatown restaurant]," "Flood Stories," "sing-sing," "The Wedding Dress," "Nuwa"
4x Best Small Fictions nominated: "Dennis Lee & Our Souls," "Vows," "Antioch," "Bunny, Three Ways"
1x Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Anthology nomination & 1x Best American Short Stories nomination: "Nuwa"

About

Celeste writes in her living room, which smells like turpentine.

If you have nice things to say, feel free to email me at [email protected]