MeeRee Orlandini
 
 

MEEREE ORLANDINI is a poet and writer from philadelphia.

She holds a BFA in Creative Writing from the University of the Arts and an MA in English Literature from the University of Amsterdam, where her recent thesis explores food as a postcolonial site of hybridity in contemporary Korean American literature. She teaches English at an all-boys school in the suburbs.

 

– Selected Publications –

 
 

P O E T R Y

American Poetry Review

“What Living in a House Is Like.” May/June, 2022.

jubilat

The Only Way We Talk About It.” jubilat 37, Spring 2020.

Darkhouse Books

“Zugzwang.” What We Talk About When We Talk About It, Volume 2, October 2020.

“What She Told Me Was This.” What We Talk About When We Talk About It, Volume 1, February 2020.

Santa Clara Review

“A Boy Who Wasn’t Named Peter Told Me He Loved Me During The Amazing Spider-Man, Then After We Broke Up, We Watched The Amazing Spider-Man 2 and Gwen Stacy Died.” Volume 105, Issue 02, 2018.

 

F I C T I O N & R E V I E W S

Cleveland Review of Books

The Gore of Emotion: On Whitney Collins’ ‘Big Bad’.” October 2021.

Underground Pool

“5 Mistakes to Avoid When Making Potato Salad.” Issue 8, Spring 2018

University of the Arts 2019 Award in Fiction

What Was Always There” received 1st place, selected by judge Siobhan Fallon, author of You Know When the Men Are Gone (2011) and The Confusion of Language (2017).

Fallon wrote: “'What Was Always There' is spare and beautifully compact, covering just a handful of hours. The story revolves around an uncomfortable family dinner on a snow day, yet the writing is so polished and lovely it glows. 'What Was Always There' manages to evoke the particular loss and joy that seem to define so much of childhood; reading this story is like reliving a memory that haunts forever."