- Mazzy Sleep

I started writing in July 2020 when I was eight years old. The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury sparked something in me, and since then I have been writing every day. I’ve completed three novels, two feature screenplays, and hundreds of short stories and poems. Some of my other favorite writers are Haruki Murakami, Louise Glück, Daphne du Maurier, Sara Teasdale, Leonora Carrington, Anne de Marcken, and Kelly Link.

“At the tender age of 11, Toronto artist Mazzy Sleep will soon be immortalized on the moon.” – The Toronto Star

“She has published poetry in some of the most prestigious literary journals in North America.” – CNN

Fiction

Published

The Margins (Asian American Writers’ Workshop)

“The Colors Between White Lines” | May 2023

“Flash fiction by perhaps our youngest Margins contributor”

Defunct Magazine (Long Island University)

“After the Fire” | Issue 10, Spring 2022

Maudlin House

“The Night Nobody Moved” | May 2022

Barren Magazine

“Game of Charades” | Issue 21, Fall 2022

Jellyfish Review

“Another Person” | One line only. Maybe two, May 2022

Poetry

Forthcoming

FOOLS Magazine (University of Iowa)

“LIGHT” | Print, Volume 15

Published

Lunar Codex

“ringed winged” | Special commission for time capsules to the moon
Featured in CNN, Toronto Star, The Times and 980 CKNW Vancouver

Codex Νουα – Landed on Lunar South Pole, February 22, 2024
SpaceX Falcon 9 / Intuitive Machines Odysseus
Codex Serenity – Lunar Southern Hemisphere, December 2024
SpaceX Falcon 9 / NASA CLPS-TO-19D
Codex Polaris – Lunar South Pole, September 2025
SpaceX Falcon Heavy / NASA CLPS-TO-20A

“Mazzy is the youngest poet curated into the Lunar Codex.”
– Founder Samuel Peralta

Literary Review of Canada

Two poems

“The City” | Print, Vol. 32 No. 8, October 2024
“Outside the Window” | Bookworm, October 2024

Mantis: A Journal of Poetry, Criticism & Translation (Stanford University)

Two poems | Print, Volume 22, 2024

“Too Far In”
“dust cover shell”

Contemporary Verse 2

“Moth, Moon & Hex” | Print, Vol. 46 No. 4, Spring 2024

“One of the youngest poets we’ve ever had the pleasure of featuring“

The Minnesota Review Volume 2023, Issue 101

The Minnesota Review (Virginia Tech)

“Dawn” | Print, Issue 101, Fall 2023

Blackbird (Virginia Commonwealth University)

“Darling” | Vol. 21 No. 3, Spring 2023

Geist

“Heart Medicine” | Print, Issue 122, December 2022

Notable Poem in Best Canadian Poetry 2024 anthology

Door Is A Jar Magazine

Five poems | Print, Issue 29, Winter 2023

“Only Dizzy When You Stop” | Virtual reading, February 2024
“can’t believe this”
“Castaway”
“The Sun”
“We Dance Around the Scream”

Meniscus (Australasian Association of Writing Programs)

“curve of vivid blue light” | Volume 11, Issue 2, 2023

Potomac Review (Montgomery College)

“Lost” | Print, Issue 73, Fall 2023

White Wall Review (Toronto Metropolitan University)

Four poems | May 2023

LEON Literary Review

“ghost” | Issue #23, December 2023

2022 Rattle Young Poets Anthology

“The City” + audio | Print, June 2022

Passengers Journal

“February” + audio | Print, Volume 3, Issue 4, December 2022
Featured on Passengers Journal Poetrycast, January 2023

“It fully illustrates Mazzy’s ability to intuitively tap into the darkness and the more oppressive themes… it’s like goth Mary Oliver in a sense.”
– Poetry Editor Andreea Ceplinschi

Queen’s Quarterly (Queen’s University)

“The Forest” | Print, Volume 129, Fall 2022

Queen’s Quarterly (Queen’s University)

“Mercy’s Sunset” | Print, Volume 129, Summer 2022

Queen’s Quarterly (Queen’s University)

“Literals” | Print, Volume 129, Spring 2022

Queen’s Quarterly (Queen’s University)

“Crown of Vespers” | Print, Volume 128, Winter 2021

“Mazzy is the youngest poet ever published by Queen’s Quarterly, which has been in business for more than 100 years.”
– Literary Editor Joan Harcourt