writer,
poet.

Renee Agatep is an American poet and short story writer. Renee earned her master’s at Northeastern University and is a fellow in the Syracuse MFA program.

Renee is the winner of the 2022 Wolfson Chapbook Prize. Her chapbook, OHIO RADIO, is forthcoming from Wolfson Press (2023). Renee is also a Best New Poets, Best Microfictions, and Best of the Net nominee. She is from rural Ohio and currently lives on a small island in the Atlantic.

publications

Books and Collections

THE ICEMAN’S PURSE: A Prompted Creative Writing Journal to Thoroughly Confuse and Ultimately Defeat Your Writer’s Block

Named to Good Housekeeping’s Ultimate Gift Guide (2023)
Now available on Amazon.

OHIO RADIO
Wolfson Press (2023)

Selected Fiction

“On to Stockton, 1930”
Hawaii Pacific Review

“Rules of the Rats”
Ellipsis Zine

“Swiping Up”
The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts

“The Fortune Cookie”
The Writers’ Block

“Sidewinder”
perhappened

“Canneto di Caronia”
Capsule Stories

“Landline”
perhappened
performed by Liars’ League London

“Upon Not Being Diagnosed a Wizard (As You’d Hoped)”
Maudlin House
Raconteur

“The Original of Vera”
Lunch Break Zine

Selected Poetry

“The Queen of England Gives Birth”
Poetry Ireland Review

“Elegy for a Living Mother”
Rust+Moth
The Lascaux Review

“Decoupage” & “Parachutes”
CAROUSEL

“Barako”
Anak Sastra
Marías at Sampaguitas

Creative Non-Fiction

“Birds of Prey”
Orange Blossom Review