Selected Short Prose & Poetry:
Postcard Collaboration with Sarah J. Sloat | Atlas and Alice | Jan. 9, 2023
texts i never sent | Flypaper Lit | Jan. 1, 2023
On Going | Split Lip Magazine | 10th Anniversary Issue | Nov. 14, 2022
the yellow motel | The Night Heron Barks | Spring 2022 | June 2, 2022
Eulogy | Passages North | Issue 41 | Feb. 18, 2020 | nominated for Best Small Fictions 2021
campfire. & long distance. | Hobart | Dec. 30, 2019
As Close As I Came | 100 Word Story | Oct. 12, 2019
The Interstate | CHEAP POP | Oct. 3, 2019
The Diner | matchbook literary magazine | Aug. 26, 2019 | nominated for the Pushcart Prize | nominated for Best of the Net | longlisted for Wigleaf Top 50 2020
A Functional Murmur | Little Fiction | Big Truths | Aug. 7, 2019 | The 10 Most Read Posts of 2019
Corner Store | New South Journal | May 13, 2019
Desire Lines | Hobart | Jan. 18, 2019
In a Sunday Kitchen | Pidgeonholes | Oct. 11, 2018
Still | Wigleaf | Sept. 17, 2018
And Sometimes We Meet | matchbook literary magazine | Sept. 10, 2018 | nominated for the Pushcart Prize | selected for Best Microfiction 2019
For Michigan | The Coil Magazine | July 10, 2018
What’s Left | Unbroken Journal | July 1, 2018
Whiskey and Water | Synaesthesia Magazine | April 10, 2018
All I Have Left | Monkeybicycle | March 9, 2018 | featured on Mr. Bear’s Violet Hour Saloon podcast
A Makeshift Motel | Paper Darts | Vol. 7 (print)
Half-Life | CHEAP POP | Jan. 30, 2018 | nominated for the Pushcart Prize | nominated for Best of the Net | selected for Best Small Fictions 2019
New Years | Barrelhouse | Dec. 30, 2017
Where We Land | matchbook literary magazine | Sept. 25, 2017 | nominated for the Pushcart Prize
Common Ground | Rise Up Review | July 25, 2017 | shortlisted for Bettering American Poetry
Sneakers in Sand | River Teeth | Feb. 29, 2016
Compulsory Crossing | Split Lip Magazine’s Livershot Memoir Contest | Finalist | January 2016
Selected Essays:
Asymptotes | DIAGRAM | Oct. 31, 2019
Body of Longing | Waxwing | Spring 2019 (collaboration with Kristine Langley Mahler)
Fall on Me | Atticus Review | March 1, 2018
Writing Memory | Brevity’s Nonfiction Blog | July 22, 2016
Attachments | Full Grown People | March 15, 2016
Home, Anywhere | Atticus Review | Dec. 22, 2015
End of the Road | Full Grown People | Feb. 12, 2015
It Can’t Wait | The Manifest-Station | June 3, 2015
A Shared Road | STIR Journal | July 1, 2015
Why We Write | Literary Mama | Dec. 29, 2014
Now I Mother From a Distance | Brain, Child Magazine | July 2, 2014
Bris Guilt: Claiming the Mother’s Role in a Ritual Circumcision | The Atlantic | Dec. 16, 2011
Interviews/Profiles/Reviews:
On Going, On Staying, On Cheese Cubes: An Interview of Dina L. Relles by Christina Berke | Split Lip Magazine | March 7, 2023
One Great Things About “Half-Life” | Meghan McClure | March 2018
Writers of the Week | Maudlin House | Feb. 9, 2018
Mini-Interview with Dina Relles | Tommy Dean | Jan. 30, 2018
Editing Experience:
Nonfiction Editor | Pidgeonholes | Dec. 2018—present
Asst. Prose Poetry Editor | Pithead Chapel | Jan. 2018—July 2020
TRUE Senior Blog Editor | Proximity Magazine | Aug. 2016—Apr. 2018
Blog Editor | Literary Mama | Feb. 2015—Aug. 2016
Other Resources:
List of Venues for Flash CNF | Micro Prose | Prose Poetry