Lena Kinder
she/her | writer, editor | Roanoke, VA, United States
Lena Kinder has an MA in creative writing from the University of Southern Mississippi and is pursuing an MFA in creative writing at Hollins University. Her works can be found in or forthcoming from Wigleaf, Pinch, Flash Frog, the Quarter(ly), and more. She is the editor-in-chief of Folklore Review.
Selected work
"In the Poppies"
HAD, 2026
Insomnia
Crow & Cross Keys, 2026
"Midnight Swim in the Lake of Metamorphosis" and "Let Me Ask God How to Reanimate the Dead"
Does It Have Pockets, 2026
The Tree of Aging
Bending Genres, 2026
Skyline Drive
Some Words, 2026
Two Poems: "wolfish" and "pray ; wish"
Luna Luna Magazine, 2026
One of Those Dead
Soon
elsewhere
The Devil
Tiny Wren Lit, 2025
Forsythia
Salt Hill Journal, 2026
Three Micro: Shadow Play; The Potter; and The Eggs Are Talking
Wigleaf, 2026
Namesake
HerStry, 2025
Papergirl
Flash Frog, 2025
Sweet
The Pinch, 2025
Silver Fins
The Pinch, 2025
Yellow
Product Magazine, 2025
Under the Oracle Tree
The Quarter(ly), 2025
The Serials of Rasmont Road
Crow & Cross Keys
