Lana Spendl’s poetry, fiction, and nonfiction can be found in the following journals:
POETRY
New Ohio Review (Issue 25), “After the Date” (forthcoming)
Moon City Review (2019), “As God Intended” (forthcoming)
Notre Dame Review (Summer/Fall 2018), “Like a Stage Set, Still”
Zone 3 (Issue 32.2), “Rose Horn”
Cider Press Review (Issue 19.2), “On the Balcony”
Hawaii Pacific Review (2017), “Bare Necessities”
Gargoyle Magazine (Issue 65), “Flinging Superstitions”
Lunch Ticket (Winter/Spring 2017), “Fat Tuesday in Samsara”
FICTION
Bayou Magazine (Issue 69), “Crumbs and Porcelain Cup”
The Baltimore Review (Spring 2018), “Peephole”
Barely South Review (Volume 9.02), “The Lump”
Front Porch (Issue 36), “Shifted”
Watershed Review (Fall 2016), “Secret Convention”
Great Jones Street (2016), “MorningLark35 Sent You a Message on FindYourBoo.com,” “Budget Flight on Christmas Day,” and “Lost Item at Sunday’s Ukrainian Day Picnic”
storySouth (Issue 41), “One of the Men”
Fiction Southeast (2015), “Fingers Hooked”
Midway Journal (Issue 9.4), “Photo Attachments for the Power Plant”
Your Impossible Voice (Issue 8), “On a Flight to Singapore for a Weekend Shopping Trip,” and “Lost Item at Sunday’s Ukrainian Day Picnic” (Reprinted in Great Jones Street)
Restless (2014), “On the Dalmatian Coast” (Reprinted in Everywhere Stories, Vol. III by Press 53)
Quarter After Eight (Issue 21), “Text Message: University Crime Alert”
The Cortland Review (Winter 2014 Feature), “The Accident”
– Nominated for the Pushcart Prize
Atticus Review (Reverb Issue), “Down into Sarajevo”
Monkeybicycle (2014), “Soap Bubble Words”
– Nominated for the 2015 storySouth Million Writers Award
3Elements Review (Stories from Art), “Elevator”
The Greensboro Review (Issue 91), “In the Baščaršija Quarter”
– Nominated for the Pushcart Prize
NONFICTION
War, Literature & the Arts (Issue 30), “No Firm Ground”
Storm Cellar (Issue 6.2), “Sarajevo on the Phone”
Fanzine (2016), “In Search of Duende: A Memoir of the Bosnian War”
Hobart (2015), “Soul Retrieval in the Southwest”
Prick of the Spindle (Issue 8.2), “The Virgin”
PROFILES
The College Magazine (Indiana University, Fall 2018), “Outside the Lab” (on medical researcher Baindu Bayon)
The College Magazine (Indiana University, Spring 2018), “The Healing Power of Film” (on filmmaker Paul Shoulberg)
REVIEWS
Indiana Review (Issue 34.2), “Review of Shannon Cain’s The Necessity of Certain Behaviors”
Indiana Review (Issue 33.2), “Review of Lidia Yuknavitch’s The Chronology of Water”
Indiana Review (Issue 33.1), “Review of Eileen Barrett and Ruth O. Saxton’s Approaches to Teaching Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway”
