Mykki Rios
@mykkirioswrites.bsky.social
33 | they/them | queer af | writer | gamer | drag | food | drinks | manga/comics | published numerous places (The Normal School, BRAWL Lit, Synkroniciti, Anti-Heroin Chic, more) | always in need of a nap | fussy dog parent | Emerson 2014
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Tampa Review 69 - University of Tampa Press
Fiction by Mara Beneway, Caroline Bodian, and Kevin Mulligan. Poetry by Josette Akresh-Gonzales, Gaylord Brewer, Jonathan Cannon, Jo Ann Clark, Kevin Clark, Chloe Cook, Sharon Dolin, Edward Mayes, My...
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You can read my poem 'I DREAM OF TRYING ON WEDDING DRESSES...' in issue 69 of Tampa Review and I hope you do. Look at that gorgeous cover art. Happy Pride have some very gender fluid writing!
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For the first time in a long time I am back on top of poetry submissions and it feels great. Now to work on my most ambitious short story yet to submit to a certain publication in January!
October 20, 2025 at 8:25 PM
For the first time in a long time I am back on top of poetry submissions and it feels great. Now to work on my most ambitious short story yet to submit to a certain publication in January!
You can now read two of my favorite poems from my time living in Colorado, 'PLENTY' and 'PYRE'! One is very grounded in daydreaming, and one is very unstable from nighttime dreaming. Thank you to Dodging the Rain for having me.
Mykki Rios, Plenty and Pyre
PLENTY sometimes i gaze out west at the Rockiesi imagine myself going up in the mountainslearning to foragegoing out and finding flowers to brew into meadmushrooms jutting from bark and peeking from under wet leavesthere would be alliums growing just out of sight from…
PLENTY sometimes i gaze out west at the Rockiesi imagine myself going up in the mountainslearning to foragegoing out and finding flowers to brew into meadmushrooms jutting from bark and peeking from under wet leavesthere would be alliums growing just out of sight from…
Mykki Rios, Plenty and Pyre
PLENTY sometimes i gaze out west at the Rockiesi imagine myself going up in the mountainslearning to foragegoing out and finding flowers to brew into meadmushrooms jutting from bark and peeking from under wet leavesthere would be alliums growing just out of sight from the roadssomewhere there would be an abandoned temple finding new life…
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October 1, 2025 at 2:04 PM
You can now read two of my favorite poems from my time living in Colorado, 'PLENTY' and 'PYRE'! One is very grounded in daydreaming, and one is very unstable from nighttime dreaming. Thank you to Dodging the Rain for having me.
Feature writeup from Synkroniciti about my poems in their newest issue! I've worked with this magazine several times now, and they're always a delight.
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“Recovery” Featured Artist Mykki Rios
Synkroniciti is thrilled to welcome back poet Mykki Rios of Chicago with two poems. The first is “7 DAYS TO THE 2024 ELECTION,” exploring the uncertainty of the time before Trump was re…
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August 15, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Feature writeup from Synkroniciti about my poems in their newest issue! I've worked with this magazine several times now, and they're always a delight.
synkroniciti.com/recovery-fea...
synkroniciti.com/recovery-fea...
I'll post a picture later but my copy of @justfemmeanddandy.bsky.social Just Femme and Dandy Mixtape came in the mail today! So cool to have my poems about lip gloss printed in a very chic deconstructed zine format, I love having a physical record of my work
July 28, 2025 at 11:21 PM
I'll post a picture later but my copy of @justfemmeanddandy.bsky.social Just Femme and Dandy Mixtape came in the mail today! So cool to have my poems about lip gloss printed in a very chic deconstructed zine format, I love having a physical record of my work
Reminder that you can read my recent work in:
HAD
Londemere Lit
Tampa Review
Synkroniciti Magazine
HAD
Londemere Lit
Tampa Review
Synkroniciti Magazine
June 30, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Reminder that you can read my recent work in:
HAD
Londemere Lit
Tampa Review
Synkroniciti Magazine
HAD
Londemere Lit
Tampa Review
Synkroniciti Magazine
I highly recommend having a former English teacher as your therapist if you're a poet. It's so nice when they have insight into both your personal and creative issues.
June 19, 2025 at 7:24 PM
I highly recommend having a former English teacher as your therapist if you're a poet. It's so nice when they have insight into both your personal and creative issues.
You can read my poem 'I DREAM OF TRYING ON WEDDING DRESSES...' in issue 69 of Tampa Review and I hope you do. Look at that gorgeous cover art. Happy Pride have some very gender fluid writing!
utampapress.org/product/tamp...
utampapress.org/product/tamp...
Tampa Review 69 - University of Tampa Press
Fiction by Mara Beneway, Caroline Bodian, and Kevin Mulligan. Poetry by Josette Akresh-Gonzales, Gaylord Brewer, Jonathan Cannon, Jo Ann Clark, Kevin Clark, Chloe Cook, Sharon Dolin, Edward Mayes, My...
utampapress.org
June 9, 2025 at 7:42 PM
You can read my poem 'I DREAM OF TRYING ON WEDDING DRESSES...' in issue 69 of Tampa Review and I hope you do. Look at that gorgeous cover art. Happy Pride have some very gender fluid writing!
utampapress.org/product/tamp...
utampapress.org/product/tamp...
Look, you can read my first ever published short story 'SUPERNATURAL SPEED DATING' in the dulcet issue (no. iv) of londemere lit, linked here! I hope you find much to love in my little queer urban romantasy. Please let me know your thoughts. Feel free to share.
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ISSUES
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May 29, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Look, you can read my first ever published short story 'SUPERNATURAL SPEED DATING' in the dulcet issue (no. iv) of londemere lit, linked here! I hope you find much to love in my little queer urban romantasy. Please let me know your thoughts. Feel free to share.
londemerelit.weebly.com/issues.html
londemerelit.weebly.com/issues.html
I've always felt like I need to say I'm really excited about my upcoming work being published and I always am on some level but lately I've been feeling like some really hard won accomplishments that I love with all of me are blooming around me and I'm buzzing to share
May 9, 2025 at 1:15 AM
I've always felt like I need to say I'm really excited about my upcoming work being published and I always am on some level but lately I've been feeling like some really hard won accomplishments that I love with all of me are blooming around me and I'm buzzing to share
I forgot to post here yesterday but you can read my poem 'AUCTION HOUSE' on @havehashad.com website, please check it out! This is a dream publication for me to be working with, I'm so grateful
May 8, 2025 at 3:38 PM
I forgot to post here yesterday but you can read my poem 'AUCTION HOUSE' on @havehashad.com website, please check it out! This is a dream publication for me to be working with, I'm so grateful
FIRST SKULL!! I can feel the victory madness overtaking me thank you so much @havehashad.com
April 27, 2025 at 3:36 PM
FIRST SKULL!! I can feel the victory madness overtaking me thank you so much @havehashad.com
Generally speaking I think it's better to write and figure out where you want to end up but I will admit I thought about my first creative nonfiction essay that I'm going to submit tomorrow for so long it sprang from my head like Athena from Zeus
April 19, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Generally speaking I think it's better to write and figure out where you want to end up but I will admit I thought about my first creative nonfiction essay that I'm going to submit tomorrow for so long it sprang from my head like Athena from Zeus
New job training is crazy, but I'm 10 for 10 on daily poems for National Poetry Writing Month, and I'm going to write a scene for my fiction project this weekend, and draft an essay in the next ten days, and there's other stuff to come, and I guess what I'm saying is nothing will stop me
April 11, 2025 at 12:39 AM
New job training is crazy, but I'm 10 for 10 on daily poems for National Poetry Writing Month, and I'm going to write a scene for my fiction project this weekend, and draft an essay in the next ten days, and there's other stuff to come, and I guess what I'm saying is nothing will stop me
Six days into national poetry writing month and finally a new first draft I feel went somewhere fun (I'm trying for one per day, we'll see with new job starting tomorrow)
April 6, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Six days into national poetry writing month and finally a new first draft I feel went somewhere fun (I'm trying for one per day, we'll see with new job starting tomorrow)
Officially got confirmation in the night that my first short story is going to be published! I'm a fiction writer now, this is so wild and wonderful
April 4, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Officially got confirmation in the night that my first short story is going to be published! I'm a fiction writer now, this is so wild and wonderful
Heard back (it was a no) about a submission I had sent in so long ago I'd forgotten what was in the packet, opened the packet on my laptop, and involuntarily murmured "fuck you, these are great" anyways I stand by my work lmao
March 29, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Heard back (it was a no) about a submission I had sent in so long ago I'd forgotten what was in the packet, opened the packet on my laptop, and involuntarily murmured "fuck you, these are great" anyways I stand by my work lmao
Freezing rainstorm today, it has been perfect weather to listen to the new Lucy Dacus
March 29, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Freezing rainstorm today, it has been perfect weather to listen to the new Lucy Dacus
New day job acquired, two publishing acceptances in one day, I am relishing victory. One of those poems I've submitted more than five places previously. Never give up.
March 27, 2025 at 11:03 PM
New day job acquired, two publishing acceptances in one day, I am relishing victory. One of those poems I've submitted more than five places previously. Never give up.
I had a writing professor in college who said most new writers worry what they have to say is "too weird" or "too boring", which I think is true. However, I've realized I've unlocked a new fear recently, being "too pretentious", which somehow feels like both of the previous options at once. Fun!
March 16, 2025 at 10:52 PM
I had a writing professor in college who said most new writers worry what they have to say is "too weird" or "too boring", which I think is true. However, I've realized I've unlocked a new fear recently, being "too pretentious", which somehow feels like both of the previous options at once. Fun!
Putting some time aside tonight to listen to new Playboi Carti and read more Charles Simic
March 14, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Putting some time aside tonight to listen to new Playboi Carti and read more Charles Simic
There's something lightly surreal and nostalgic about Lady Gaga and Panda Bear releasing new (actually good) albums at the same time again, feels like I'm in college
March 7, 2025 at 5:42 PM
There's something lightly surreal and nostalgic about Lady Gaga and Panda Bear releasing new (actually good) albums at the same time again, feels like I'm in college
2 very kind tiered rejections from journals today, but I still feel like crying. I hate how much of this year has been almost being good enough.
March 5, 2025 at 9:06 PM
2 very kind tiered rejections from journals today, but I still feel like crying. I hate how much of this year has been almost being good enough.
I haven't been posting much bc the seasonal depression is mighty and I haven't had any good news to share but I think I should maybe just thought drop again and not assume people are only interested in me or my art when I'm succeeding bc what does that even mean in the end
March 3, 2025 at 6:29 PM
I haven't been posting much bc the seasonal depression is mighty and I haven't had any good news to share but I think I should maybe just thought drop again and not assume people are only interested in me or my art when I'm succeeding bc what does that even mean in the end