Ella Flores

Publications

Awards

7 Pushcart Nominations

2 Best of the Net Nominations
1 Best New Poets Nomination

Poetry

“Love Poem w/ Human Remains.” Cider Press Review 2027, Forthcoming.
“Noctilucent (Doorway Effect).” Cider Press Review 2027, Forthcoming.
“Love Poem w/ Roadkill.” Permafrost 47.2 (2026): Forthcoming.
“Hagiography for a Bisabuela.” Quarterly West 2026, Forthcoming.

“In the Garden of Human Sculptures.” F(r)iction 27 (2026), Forthcoming.
“Perfect Indifference.” F(r)iction 27 (2026), Forthcoming.
“Capillary Actions.” F(r)iction 27 (2026), Forthcoming.
“Gathering Sentences Along the Garden Path.” River Styx 111 (2026): Forthcoming.
“Descendants of Salt.” River Styx 111 (2026): Forthcoming.

“Vanitas w/ Human Sacrifice.” The National Poetry Review 2026, Forthcoming.
“Inventory of Impossible Colors.” Radar Poetry 45 (2026): Online.

“Against Stasis.” So to Speak (Summer 2026): Online.
“Scrimshaw of a Whale-fall.” So to Speak (Summer 2026): Online.
“Cloud Seeding.” Red River Review 75 (2026): Online.
“The Mechanical Siren.” Red River Review 75 (2026): Online.
“The Divergent Boundary Rips Its Sutures.” FOLIO 41 (2026): Online.
“Mural of Market Day in Rainy Season.” Gulf Stream Magazine 37 (2026): Online.

“Field Notes from the Creation Museum.” Sugar House Review 30 (2026): 32.
“Love Poem w/ Biblically Accurate Angel.” DIAGRAM 25.3 (2025): Online.
“Given.” Penn Review 74 (2024): Online.
“A Test of the Emergency Alert System.” Salamander 58 (2025): 59.
“Name Day, Dallas, 1979.” Hunger Mountain 29 (2024): Online.
“Belonging (Clostridium Tetani).” Hunger Mountain 29 (2024): Online.
“Posthumous Portrait Disguised as Writing Prompt.” Vernacular (2024): Online.
“Prepartum.” Summerset Review Spring (2022): Online.

“Aviaticus.” Summerset Review Spring (2022): Online.
“North American Tectonic Plate Realizes It Can Speak, Tries.” South Carolina Review 53.2 (2021): 1.
“Pyrocumulus.” Nimrod International Journal 63.2 (2019): 121.
“Indo-Australian Tectonic Plate Decides It’s Not Working Out, Breaks Up.” Nimrod International Journal 63.2 (2019): 122.
“South American Plate Plays on Words.” Nimrod International Journal 63.2 (2019): 123.
“Nubian Tectonic Plate Finds Animatronic Fortuneteller, Inserts Coin.” Nimrod International Journal 63.2 (2019): 124.
“Invented Language/Sextina.” Nimrod International Journal 63.2 (2019): 125-6.
“An Unfinished Summation of Breasts.” South Dakota Review 54.3 (2019): 140.
“Sowing.” South Dakota Review 54.3 (2019): 141.
“Settling.” South Dakota Review 54.3 (2019): 142.
“Last Universal Ancestor (Uncommon).” Willow Springs 84 (2019): 82.
“Asparagus Clouds (Asperitas).” Radar Poetry 22 (2019): Online.
“Tx 13.” Radar Poetry 22 (2019): Online.
“Instructions for Potentiality.” The Shore 1 (2019): Online.
“Subject, Impermanence.” The Shore 1 (2019): Online.
“Picnic Relativity.” Harpur Palate 18.2 (2019): 51.
“Ruminant.” Lindenwood Review 9 (2019). 15.
“Deciduous (Evening in a Polar Vortex).” Plume Poetry 104 (2020): Online.
“Bouvet Island, after a lifeboart left alone.” RHINO Poetry (2019): 61.
“Heirloom Acoustics.” Barely South Review 10.1 (2018): Online.
“Sapphic Heredity.” Bitter Oleander Press 24.2 (2018): 25.
“Mammatus.” Slipstream Magazine 38 (2018): 58.
“Pacific Tectonic Plate Shifts, Forgets Why.” Hawai’i Pacific Review (2018): Online.
“Fake Leather.” Foothill Journal 7.1 (2017): 21.
“Some Said Yarrow, Some Didn’t Say.” Foothill Jounral 7.1 (2017): 22.
“Experiment: Variable Constant.” Puerto del Sol (2017): Online.

Under the name “Emmanuel Flores”
“Magnolia Tree (Unfinished).” Fifth Wednesday Journal 17 (2015): 144.
“I Asked You To Paint a Portrait of Me, So You Asked Me To Write a Portrait of You.” Cider Press Review 17.1 (2014): Online.

Interviews

Interview with Mary Buchinger. The Shore 58 (2026): Online.

Pedagogy

“Translating the Image into Poetry.” Broadsided 2023: Online.