Yvanna Vien Tica
PUBLICATIONS
Selected Poems (Online):
"Pastured" - The Interlochen Review
"sampaguita as alien species" - EX/POST Magazine
"Thanksgiving in Tagalog" - Eunoia Review
"in our first suburb," - Indigo Literary Journal
"Nanay's Advice on Becoming a Woman" - Touchstone Literary Magazine, Editor's Pick, selected by Winniebell Zong
"Poem in which I explain what the world is like without my hearing aids" & "Song of Solomon: An Epilogue" - Up the Staircase Quarterly
"Years Later, I Confront Unopened Balikbayan Boxes" - Rust + Moth
"Aubade on my first day as Manila native" - Hobart
"In the mall, I realize my tongue is diagnosed with identity crisis" - Peach Magazine
"Before Anointment" - Fare Forward
"Postcolonial Secrets" - Lumiere Review
"At a Wake, I Confront" - 1455 Literary Arts
"my father teaches me the names of near-forgotten wars" - DIALOGIST (Web Weekly Feature in Verse Daily)
"Rites of Becoming a White Lady" - Strange Horizon's Southeast Asia Poetry Special
"Prayer for the Kababayan" - decomp journal
"The Ocean Makes Creatures of Us" - The Poetry Society UK
"The deluge is not enough to heal." - Polyphony Lit
"False Ancestry" - Perhappened
"A Cat Confronts Her Past Lives" - 2021 Ledbury Poetry Festival Competition
"Typhoon Pag-asa" - 2021 Ocean Bow Seat Awareness Contest
"Spasticity" - Poetry Society UK
"Creation Myth in Tagalog" & "Awit for Rizal" - The Rumpus
"Dear Midwest I haven't visited in years," - Whale Road ReviewSelected Poems (Print):
"Cinematic Study on Guilt" - Poet Lore Summer/Fall 2021 Issue
"I Waited Through the Storm" - in Brought to Sight & Swept Away: A Poetry Anthology About Time by Vita Brevis Press
"Euphemisms for Cancer" (Winner of 2021 Hippocrates Young Poets Prize) - 2021 Hippocrates Prize AnthologyForthcoming Poems:
"Migrating" - Shenandoah
"Three Days Without Resurrection" - Farside Review
"The Divisoria still haunts you, &" - Poet Lore
"I Remember US History Class in a Province Outside Manila" - Salt Hill
"Reasons for Letting My Garden Grow Wild" - Tinderbox Poetry JournalProse
"Decision Shopping" - CHEAP POPForthcoming Prose
"How to Take Care (of the Environment)" - Fractured Lit
HONORS
2019
National Silver Medals in Poetry, Flash Fiction, and Novel Writing - The Scholastic Arts and Writing Competition
American Voices Nomination (1/5 best writing pieces in the Midwest Region) for Novel Writing - The Scholastic Arts and Writing Competition
Semi-Finalist - The Young Playwrights Competition
2020
Finalist - The Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize (The Kenyon Review)
2021
Honorable Mention - The Leonard L. Milberg ’53 High School Poetry Contest sponsored by Princeton University
Longlisted - Human Cell Atlas Challenge - The Poetry Society UK
Starlit Award in Poetry - Spring 2021 Aster Lit
Certificate of Superior Writing - NCTE Achievement Awards in Writing
Winner - 2021 Hippocrates Young Poet Prize for Poetry and Medicine
Winner - 1455’s 3rd Annual Teen Poetry Contest
Web Weekly Feature (August 9, 2021) - Verse Daily
Nominated for Best of the Net - Touchstone Literary Magazine
Commended - Poems to Solve the Climate Crisis - The Poetry Society UK
Winner - 2021 Ledbury Poetry Competition Young People Category
Only Gold Awardee in Poetry Category: Senior Division - 2021 Bow Seat Ocean Awareness Contest
Third Place - August Challenge #4: Write to Me – Epistolary Poems - The Poetry Society UK
2022
Finalist - The Anzaldúa Poetry Prize (for a chapbook that "explores how place shapes identity, imagination, and understanding")
EXPERIENCE
Editing
Editor-in-Chief - The Faith Review (March 2020 - Present)
Executive Editor - Polyphony Lit (February 2020 - Present)
Poetry Reader - Muzzle Magazine (May 2021 - Present)Teen Guest Editor - Inlandia: A Literary Journey (February 2021 - April 2021)
Poetry Editor - The Global Youth Review (February 2021 - August 2021)
Internships
Content Intern - The Adroit Journal (December 2019 - May 2020)
Editorial Intern - Fiveable (February 2021 - October 2021)
Workshops
Student in Creative Writing - Interlochen Arts Academy (2018-2019)
Mentee - The Adroit Journal Summer Mentorship Program under Kate Gaskin (2019)
Literature, Philosophy, & Culture - Yale Young Global Scholars (2021)
Narrating Yourself - Kelly Writers House (2021)
Readings
The Red Wheelbarrow Issue Launch (February 2019)
1455 Teen Poetry Reading (July 2021)
United Nations Climate Conference (COP26) for Poems to Solve the Climate Crisis Challenge (November 2021)
"Somewhere, the mountains" - Invitation to Respond to Sir David Attenborough’s COP26 Speech (November 2021)
Contact
For any questions, hellos, or random convos, email me at [email protected].