- 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 a novel, 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, W. Somerset Maugham, and Kelly Link.

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

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

“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

The Minnesota Review

“Dawn” | Print, Issue 101, Fall 2023

LEON Literary Review

“ghost” | Online, Fall 2023

Meniscus (Australasian Association of Writing Programs)

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

Door Is A Jar Magazine

Five poems | Print, Issue 29, Winter 2023

“Only Dizzy When You Stop”
“can’t believe this”
“Castaway”
“The Sun”
“We Dance Around the Scream”

Published

Lunar Codex

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

The Νουα Collection – Lunar Southern Hemisphere, November 2023
SpaceX Launch Platform / NASA CLPS-X Mission Lander
The Polaris Collection – Lunar South Pole, November 2024
SpaceX Falcon Heavy / Astrobotic Griffin Lander + NASA VIPER Rover

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

Blackbird

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

Geist

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

Notable Poem in Best Canadian Poetry 2024 anthology

Potomac Review

“Lost” | Print, Issue 73, Fall 2023

White Wall Review

Four poems | May 2023

2022 Rattle Young Poets Anthology

“The City” + audio | Print, June 2022

Passengers Journal

“February” + audio | 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

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

Queen’s Quarterly

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

Queen’s Quarterly

“Literals” | Print, Volume 129, Spring 2022

Queen’s Quarterly

“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