About
MEEREE ORLANDINI is a poet and fiction writer from Philadelphia. Recently, she has coordinated and instructed in the University of the Arts Pre-College Creative Writing Summer Institute and has worked as a jeweler’s assistant at Ecclesia Jewelry. She currently lives in the Netherlands and is completing a Master’s in English Literature at the University of Amsterdam.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
POETRY
“What Living in a House Is Like.” The American Poetry Review, May/June, 2022.
“The Only Way We Talk About It.” jubilat, jubilat 37, Spring 2020.
“Zugzwang.” Darkhouse Books: What We Talk About When We Talk About It, Volume 2, October 2020.
“What She Told Me Was This.” Darkhouse Books: What We Talk About When We Talk About It, Volume 1, February 2020.
“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.” Santa Clara Review, Volume 105, Issue 02, 2018.
REVIEWS
“The Gore of Emotion: On Whitney Collins’ ‘Big Bad’.” Cleveland Review of Books, October 2021.
FICTION
“5 Mistakes to Avoid When Making Potato Salad.” Underground Pool, Issue 8, Spring 2018
NOTABLE RECOGNITION
The University of the Arts Creative Writing Award in Fiction: “What Was Always There” received 1st place in 2019, 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."
OTHER INVOLVEMENTS
AWP Conference & Bookfair. Philadelphia, PA. 2022.
“Whenever We Feel Like” Reading Series. Kelly Writers House, UPenn, Philadelphia, PA. 2019.
UMass Amherst’s Juniper Writing Institute. Amherst, MA. 2017.
Complete resume/cv available upon request.