Writing & Publications
oasis
You cannot stay
forever
at the sweet oasis
cannot carry away
more than the memory
of its shade
and a handful of fragrant almonds.
There is more to be traveled.
Previously Published
Hybrid/Fiction
- Home Economics for Girls with Dead Mothers – Flash Fiction Magazine
- Castles Crumble – Door Is A Jar
- On the Ferry – Matchbook Literary Magazine
- Bus Pass – Selcouth Station
- Porcupine Quills – Moria
- Recycling – Sweet Tree Review
- Persimmon – New Sun Rising
- Necklace – One Hundred Stories For Haiti
- Girl – Belmont Literary Journal
- Demon – Literary Yard
Hybrid/Creative Nonfiction
- In Memory of Language, Land, and Ice – Mulberry Literary
- Refugere – Bellevue Literary Review
- Growth Cycle – Linden Avenue Literary Review
- Underneath – Louisiana Studies Folklife Journal
- North of Inverness But Not as Far as Wick – Belmont Literary Journal
Poetry
- On Breathing – Sinew
- Born – Sinew
- Above the Mantle – Sinew
- Reading Brainard – Jellyfish Whispers; Storm Cycle Best of 2012 Anthology
- (berry) – Pyrokinection
- Safety – Poets for Living Waters
Interviews
Hamline University
Bellevue Literary Review
About the Author
Nina Adel, a native of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, is an artist of language, sound, images, thought and tangible creative works. Nina composes poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction, savory dishes and small, magical spaces. She is currently creating hybrid literary works joining memoir, short and flash fiction and song. These works illuminate identity, otherness and the complex lives of adolescent girls and the women they become.
Nina has lived in a range of places and traveled to far corners. She speaks several languages. Language, land and the human condition occupy her time, thoughts and creative endeavors.
NINA ADEL
/ Writer, Artist, Musician, Educator