Author · Poet · Storyteller
Small things,
carefully said.
Marisa Morales Lopez writes poetry, flash fiction, and stories for children. Her work returns to the same handful of subjects — memory, family, birds at the window — and tries to say them plainly.
Marisa Morales Lopez
More of My Writing
Books
Reminiscence
A collection of remembering — the first full-length book, with its own gold-and-navy world. Read the chapters inside.
Look Inside →Flash Fiction
Small stories, two shelves
Very short fiction for adults, and bright, kind stories written for children.
Read Stories →Poetry
Selected poems
Quiet, attentive poems about family, language, birds, and the ordinary hours.
Read Poems →“I keep a notebook for the sentences that arrive before the story does. Most of what I publish began as one line I couldn't put down.”
Marisa Morales Lopez
Next
A second book is in progress
New poems, a longer sequence of flash fiction, and a picture-book text are all underway. Announcements go out to the letter list first, a few times a year, never more.
Letters
Occasional post
One short note when there's a new poem, story, or book — plus a piece of writing you won't find on the site.
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