“Topaz Winters’ work is gorgeous. It’s filled with heart and possibility toward the future, while questioning the past and the present. Every poem brims with the possibility of language and skillful and surprising aphorism. I find myself nodding in recognition, but new recognition with each surprising line. Winters is the real thing—spilling with talent. I look forward to all she will make and do in the future.”

Victoria Chang

“Winters has all the intensity of youth and the sophistication of an established poet who already knows what the hell they’re doing; the freshness of confessional and the dexterity of one who refuses to collapse into cliché.” — Ng Yi-Sheng

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“Winters has all the intensity of youth and the sophistication of an established poet who already knows what the hell they’re doing; the freshness of confessional and the dexterity of one who refuses to collapse into cliché.” — Ng Yi-Sheng |

  • PUBLICATIONS

  • “The Psychiatrist Said I Would Outgrow My Violences,” “Unmasking Ceremony,” “This Will Go Easier If You Can Think of Something to Believe In”

    (Waxwing, forthcoming 2024)

  • “Idol”

    (The Drift, forthcoming 2024)

  • “Nocturne for Changing the Subject”

    (Passages North, 2024)

  • “Self Portrait As Methods of Survival”

    (The Boiler, 2023, nominated for Best of the Net & the Pushcart Prize)

  • “It’s Not That I’m Angry”

    (Poets.org, 2022)

  • “Home Ghazal (Alvin Says, It Is What We Love That Gives Us Our Names)”

    (Hobart, 2022)

  • “Terrible Things Are Happening In New Jersey!”

    (The Ex-Puritan, 2022)

  • “Arrival,” “That Summer I Wrote the Same Poem Over & Over”

    (Diode Poetry Journal, 2021, nominated for Best of the Net)

  • “& When I Say the Word Hunger You Know I’m Speaking of Resurrection”

    (Tinderbox Poetry Journal, 2020)

  • “I Found a New World Across the Sea”

    (Under a Warm Green Linden, 2019)

  • “The Night You Are Diagnosed”

    (DIALOGIST, 2019)

  • “Every Day the Same Story About Immigrants”

    (Ghost City Review, 2019)

  • “About This Morning,” “Lovesong to Vernal Equinox, Standard Time”

    (Tenderness Lit, 2019)

  • “When my First Boyfriend Learned I Was on Anti-Psychotics, He Laughed & Told Me He Always Suspected I was Crazier than I Let On”

    (Birdfeast, 2019)

  • “Origin Story”

    (Occulum, 2018)

  • “War Story With My Father”

    (Sundog Lit, 2018)

  • “The Year We Fell In Love & the Forest Happened Around It”

    (Corvid Queen, 2018)

  • “Flight”

    (LONTAR: The Journal of Southeast Asian Speculative Fiction, 2018)

  • “I Start Crying During the Best Part of the Film”

    (Rust+Moth, 2017)

  • “Infernal / Inferno”

    (TRACK // FOUR, 2016)

  • “Cherry Blossoms”

    (The Rising Phoenix Review, 2016)