KAYLEB RAE CANDRILLI

BOOKS:

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•  Winter of Worship, Copper Canyon Press, Spring, 2024

• Water I Won't Touch, Copper Canyon Press, Spring, 2021

• All the Gay Saints, Saturnalia Books, Spring, 2020

  • Winner of the 2018 Saturnalia Book Prize​

  • Long-listed for the 2020 Believer Book Awards

• What Runs Over, YesYes Books, Winter, 2017

  • Winner of a 2019 Whiting Award

  • Winner of the 2016 Pamet River Prize

  • Finalist for the 2017 Lambda Literary Award in Transgender Poetry​

  • Finalist for the 2018 American Book Fest's Best Book Award, LGBTQ Nonfiction

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NEW & FORTHCOMING:​

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• “From Above” American Poetry Review, 2023

• “Rain in April” American Poetry Review, 2023

• “One Hundred Demons” American Poetry Review, 2023

• “Daytona 500” Academy of American Poets, Poem-A-Day Series, 2022

• “Y2K in Northeastern PA” Cherry Tree, 2022

• “Another apology lost in the mail” Cherry Tree, 2022 

 

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SELECTED POETRY:

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• "Ghazals connected as though cargo freights" Ploughshares, 2021

• "A Marble Run for this Finite Earth" American Poetry Review, 2020

• "A Marble Run for the Lights" American Poetry Review, 2020

• "A Marble Run for Another End-Of-Days" Frontier, 2021

  • Winner of the 2020 Frontier Open

• “A Poem for the Start of the New Decade” Peach Mag, 2020

  • Winner of the 2020 Poetry Contest, Selected by Alok Vaid-Menon

• ​"Ghazal written for the Lids in Downtown Brooklyn where I chose my name” TriQuarterly, 2021

• ​"Water I Won’t Touch [My partner & I only believe]" Foundry, 2021

• "On imagining Ariana Grande, before the fame, working every summer at a Rita’s Italian Ice" Puerto del Sol, 2021

• “A very Trans and Arachnophobic Poem” Foglifter, 2020

• “Sonnet for the Monarch’s Migration” Foglifter, 2020

• "Haibun for my Mother and the Early 2000s" DIAGRAM, 20201

• "Poem in which I arm wrestle with my father and finally win" Flypaper Lit, 2021​

• "Poem about only baseball" Flypaper Lit, 2021

• "The Only Atlas We Need Is One Drafted By Children", The Southeast Review, 2021

• “A Poem About Batman”, The Southeast Review, 2021

• “When My Fantasy Football Team Asks Me To Write A Poem About The Jersey Shore ‘Note’”, The Southeast Review, 2021

• “On Crescents & Transition & Waning” republished and anthologized in, You Don’t Have to Be Everything: Poems for Girls Becoming Themselves, Workman Publishing, 2021

• "On the Benefits of Learning by Example" republished , Give Me Time, via Grist Journal, 2021

• "Ghazal written for the Lids in Downtown Brooklyn where I chose my name” republished, [Working Title Anthology], 2022

• "Sestina Written as Though Genesis" POETRY Magazine, 2020

• “I wish all children could touch the sky” Gigantic Sequins, 2019

  • Winner of the 2019 Poetry Contest 

• "You've heard this before, the only way out is through" American Poetry Review, 2019

• "Transgender Heroic: All this Ridiculous Flesh" The Normal School, 2019

• "My partner asks me to write them a poem about Sheryl Crow" POETRY Magazine, 2019​

• "To the Cherry Blossoms on 16th and Wharton" Embodied: An Intersectional Feminist Graphic Poetry Anthology, 2021

• “On apologizing after the Earth has circled the Sun a hundred times” Adroit, 2020

• “I keep Lil Uzi Vert’s lady bug Bic lighter in my pocket" Adroit, 2020

• “Elegy for the not yet dead Rainforest Cafe” Adroit, 2020

• “One geography of belonging” Academy of American Poets, Poem-A-Day Series, 2019

• "Expressing my feelings to my future husband-wife (or, ritual in which gender)" Academy of American Poets, 2019

• “Sonnet on having forgotten to recycle my body” Puerto del Sol, 2019

• "Drought Becomes Me" Fugue, 2019

• “On the ways our mouths betray us” Crab Orchard Review, 2020

• “On Traveling Together” Foundry, 2019

• "On Crescents & Transition & Waning” Portland Review, 2019

• "Sand & Silt" The Offing, 2018​

• “Some thoughts on luck” Peach Magazine, 2019

• “Sonnet in which we remain foolishly hopeful (or, obituary for the top soil)” Gulf Coast, 2019

• “Though Odysseus was gone for 20 years my sister was gone for 9” Cosmonauts Avenue, 2018

• “On Trespassing” Cosmonauts Avenue, 2018 

• "Notes Toward Top Surgery and the Impending Death of the Barrier Reef" TriQuarterly, 2018

• "Here we are, aging together just like we said we would"TriQuarterly, 2018

• "Valentine, Nebraska: Cherry County (Or, my partner and I consider the risks of vacationing alone in the Midwest despite our obvious queerness" The Map is Not, 2018

• Trans and summering in Wildwood, NJ" The Journal, 2018

• "on the abuse of sleep aids" The Journal, 2018

• "Expressing my feelings to my future husband-wife (or, ritual in which gender)" Hayden's Ferry Review, 2018​​

• “there is a point at which i tire of my own fear” The Tiny, 2018

• “My future husband and I make a blood pact to become the fathers we always needed” The Tiny, 2018

• “On Attempting to clear the air” The Tiny, 2018

• trans boy uses the public restroom again” New South, 2018

• "Thoughts on Romance as the Heat Index Rises" ​Interrupture, 2018

• “Echo” Timber, 2018

• “Love Poem with a lack of Conception” Timber, 2018

• "On the benefits of learning by example" Yalobusha Review, 2018

• "​Poem in which two trans boys take their first marital dance in the water" Yalobusha Review, 2018

• “My mother believes in my marriage and this shows me her heart can forgive even years spent dancing alone” Adroit, 2018

  • Winner of the 2017 Britany Noakes Poetry Award

• “During my top surgery my partner says to the doctor, tell me what you will do to their veins” Tinderbox, 2017

  • Runner Up in 2017 Elizabeth Jenkins Poetry Prize​​

• “a spell to absolve your own transness” forthcoming, Rabbit Catastrophe Press, 2017

  • Winner of the 2017 Real Good Poem Prize

  • ​Nominated for 2017 Pushcart Prize

• Poem with No Water at All" Boston Review, 2018​​

• “Daddy says” The Fourth River, 2018

• “Me and the Neighbor Boy” No Tokens, 2018

• Sinners must live with what their sins sow” Grist, 2017

  • Finalist in 2017 Pro Forma Contest

• “my shadow looks more like a man than i do, so i am both fearful and envious” Grist, 2017

  • Finalist in 2017 Pro Forma Contest

• “My horoscope is my future husband’s horoscope)” Grist, 2017

  • Finalist in 2017 Pro Forma Contest

 

 

SELECTED PROSE:

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• “This House is Obvious” Adroit, 2017

  • Finalist for Best of the Net, 2017

• “As I Like It” New Orleans Review, 2016

• “dancing in the colosseum” Permafrost, 2016

  • Nominated for 2016 Pushcart Prize

• “Attempting to Teach in a Desert” The Boiler, 2015

  • Finalist in the 2015 Flash Essay Contest

• “Things that Run” Dogwood: A Journal of Poetry and Prose, 2015

  • Finalist in the 2015 Contest

• “Inversion” Vela Magazine, 2014

  • Winner of 2014 Non-Fiction Contest

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