Publications
Published Works
“Womanhood”
The Rush
Spring/Summer 2024
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“Six Questions to Ask Your Therapist
Instead of Responding to Whatever it
Was She Just Asked You”
Sad Girl Diaries
Spring 2024
“November”
JakeMag
December 2023
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“Introduction”
“Acknowledgments”
“Snow White”
First Matter Press
Our Favorite People in the Room
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“Pheromones and Mistakes”
Same Faces Collective
December 2022
“Lycanthrope”
Coffin Bell Journal
Volume 5, Issue 3
“Stained”
Slipstream Press #42
Bread-Blood-Beats
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“A Spell for Drowning Ghosts
Levitate Magazine Issue #6
Nostalgia Dossier
“Poppyseeds”
Landing Zone Magazine
Lore Anthology
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“A Life That is Her Own”
Sunflowers at Midnight Volume 1
Beauty in Darkness
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“Monstrous Woman”
“Beneath the Scales”
Red Ogre Review
Primeval Monster Zine
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The Maiden in the Tower
Red Ogre Review Issue 2
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“Stabs Way Out”
Poet Lore 116 1/2
Surrealism Folio
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“Alphabetizing an Apology Letter
Apiary #12
The Genre Jawn
“Breadcrumbs”
“Little Red Riding Hood”
“The True Bride”
“The Sleeping Princess”
“The Forbidden Room”
Quillkeepers Press
Bare Bones Anthology
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“August”
You Might Need to Hear This
October 2021
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“One-Eye, Two-Eyes, and Three-Eyes”
“The Persecuted Heroine (Japanese)”
“The Persecuted Heroine (Iranian)”
“The Name”
The Festival Review
Volume 8
“Towns that Trigger”
”Too Late or Not at All”
Hairstreak Butterfly Review
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“What to Write in Your Journal to Move On”
Atlas and Alice
Issue 18
“The Outgrowing of a Mother”
The Vital Sparks
Volume 2
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“Date Night in the Time of Global Pandemic”
Press Pause Press
The Great Pause
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“The Sleeping Princess”
Plainsongs Magazine
Volume 41, Issue 1
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“The Bluebeard”
Wingless Dreamer
The Rewritten
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“Three Blows From a Hatchet”
The Festival Review
Volume 6
“Application 17: Hardware Store”
Peatsmoke Journal
Spring 2021
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“A Devouring Too Brief”
Mindwell Poetry
We Don’t Break, We Burn
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“The Wolf”
Sheila-Na-Gig
Poets Under 30 Volume 5
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“The Children With the Witch”
Snapdragon Journal 6.2
Dread/Desire
“The Forbidden Room”
Unnerving Magazine
Haunted are These Houses
Appearances
Epic Realms Podcast
Interview with Hailey Spencer - Author and Poet
June 30, 2025
GeekGirlCon
Banned Book Club: Recommendations & Discussion
August 24, 2023
Convos in Cohorts 2022
Episode 1: Claiming Yourself Through Storytelling
June 22, 2022
Convos in Cohorts 2022
Episode 2: Transmuting Trauma Through Language
July 27, 2022
Convos in Cohorts 2022
Episode 3: Poetry & Prose: Essential Differences
August 24, 2022
Mytholadies Podcast
Episode 24: The Persecuted Heroine (feat. Hailey Spencer)
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