Kira Córdova is a Boston-based, Pushcart-nominated writer and sometimes tall ship sailor from the great seafaring state of Colorado working on an MFA in Nature Writing. They have work in The Poetry Lighthouse, Colorado Life, Outdoors Unlimited, and Cutthroat, a Journal of the Arts.
Books
Selected work
“Use it or Lose It: Water Conservation Efforts in the Panama Canal”
Outdoors Unlimited, 2026
"Two Step" and "In Hawaiian, kino denotes the physical body; in Russian it means movie theater."
Tiny Spoon: a bite-size experimental literary magazine, 2026
"The Ghosts of Ticonderoga"
Swamp Ape Review, 2026
"Blue Copper"
The Colorado Review, 2025
"For Mutton and High Hold"
The Acentos Review, 2025
"A North American Former / Vegetarian in Austral Summer” and “Seat Selection”
Drip Literary Magazine, 2025
"Poet's Seat," "Bloodline," and "Tanka for the Wind"
Sangre Literary Magazine, 2026
"Home Sick"
adelaide literary magazine, 2025
"American Sonnet January 2025"
The Poetry Lighthouse, 2025
"Do Not Pet While Working"
The Hooghly Review, 2025
"Pop, Smear"
Alien Buddha Press, 2025
"The Shot"
Reverie, 2025
"Habit"
Bare Knuckle Press, 2025
Bustamante
Pink Disco Magazine, 2025
"At camp, transition are the hardest part"
Cutthroat, a Journal of the Arts, 2025
"The Shot"
JMWW Journal, 2025
"Visible Mending"
Handbasket, 2025
"We Don't Qualify"
BRAWL Lit, 2025
"Empanadas"
Bramble Literary Magazine, 2025
Anger is a Gift: An Anthology of Resistance and Response Poems to the 2024 Election — FlowerSong Press & Juventud Press
Soon
FlowerSong Press & Juventud Press
If I Were a Blackbird
Dark Harbor Magazine, 2025
"Ice Pop" and "I Can't Help but Thinking"
Troublemaker Firestarter, 2025
“Mixed Grandchildren of Racist Grandparents”
Chicana/Latina Studies: The Journal of Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social, 2025