bibliography.
FICTION
******** forthcoming from Central Avenue 2025
POETRY BOOKS
Small Ghost (Central Avenue Publishing 2024)
Persephone Made Me Do It (Central Avenue Publishing 2023)
I Swear Somewhere This Works (independently published 2023)
When the Stars Wrote Back (2nd edition: independently published 2022)
Artemis Made Me Do It (Myth & Magick book 2) (Central Avenue Publishing 2022)
is it okay to say this? (independently published 2022)
girl, isolated (independently published 2021)
Aphrodite Made Me Do It (Myth & Magick book 1) (Central Avenue Publishing 2019)
Honeybee (2nd edition: Central Avenue Publishing 2018)
The Dogs I Have Kissed (2nd Edition: independently published 2015)
When the Stars Wrote Back (Random House Children's 2020) OUT OF PRINT
dragonhearts (independently published 2019) OUT OF PRINT
Before the First Kiss (Words Dance Publishing 2016) OUT OF PRINT
Redacted (independently published 2016) OUT OF PRINT
POETRY CHAPBOOKS/ZINES
Poetry is Undead (self-published 2018) OUT OF PRINT
Instead of Writing Our Breakup Poem (self-published 2017) OUT OF PRINT
Small Ghost (self-published 2015) OUT OF PRINT
ANTHOLOGIZED WORK
"The Unholy Wild" short story and three untitled poems, [Dis]Connected: Poems & Stories [...] (Central Avenue Publishing, 2018)
one untitled poem, The Mermaid's Voice Returns in This One by Amanda Lovelace (Andrews McMeel, 2019)
******** forthcoming from Central Avenue 2025
POETRY BOOKS
Small Ghost (Central Avenue Publishing 2024)
Persephone Made Me Do It (Central Avenue Publishing 2023)
I Swear Somewhere This Works (independently published 2023)
When the Stars Wrote Back (2nd edition: independently published 2022)
Artemis Made Me Do It (Myth & Magick book 2) (Central Avenue Publishing 2022)
is it okay to say this? (independently published 2022)
girl, isolated (independently published 2021)
Aphrodite Made Me Do It (Myth & Magick book 1) (Central Avenue Publishing 2019)
Honeybee (2nd edition: Central Avenue Publishing 2018)
The Dogs I Have Kissed (2nd Edition: independently published 2015)
When the Stars Wrote Back (Random House Children's 2020) OUT OF PRINT
dragonhearts (independently published 2019) OUT OF PRINT
Before the First Kiss (Words Dance Publishing 2016) OUT OF PRINT
Redacted (independently published 2016) OUT OF PRINT
POETRY CHAPBOOKS/ZINES
Poetry is Undead (self-published 2018) OUT OF PRINT
Instead of Writing Our Breakup Poem (self-published 2017) OUT OF PRINT
Small Ghost (self-published 2015) OUT OF PRINT
ANTHOLOGIZED WORK
"The Unholy Wild" short story and three untitled poems, [Dis]Connected: Poems & Stories [...] (Central Avenue Publishing, 2018)
one untitled poem, The Mermaid's Voice Returns in This One by Amanda Lovelace (Andrews McMeel, 2019)
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COMMONLY UNCREDITED WORK :)
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"I still remember you
as a little girl
who overwaters plants
because she doesn't know
when to stop giving."
© Trista Mateer 2015
"I swear somewhere this works.
In a parallel universe or another world
or a different life,
we sit across from each other
at the kitchen table
and go over
the grocery
list."
© Trista Mateer 2015
"I hope one day
somebody loves you
so much
that they see violets
in the bags under your eyes,
sunsets in the downward arch
of your lips
that they recognize you
as something green,
something fresh and still growing,
even if sometimes
you are growing sideways
that they do not waste their time
trying to fix you."
© Trista Mateer 2013
I crawled
on broken glass
to get here.
You better believe
I’m living it up.
I will swallow stars
if I want to.
May my dreams come true.
May my enemies eat shit.
Times are tough
but I’m a fucking nightmare.
I have my boot
on the throat of hell
right now.
Watch me beat my demons
into submission.
Surviving’s ugly work
and here I am,
so hideously alive.
© Trista Mateer 2020