Ryu ✴ Ando | 安堵 ✴ 龍

Publications

“The oblique light at Kakushima (a memory of persimmons)” (poem) Strange Horizons, February 24, 2025
- 2026 Ignyte finalist

“The House of Mulberry Leaves” (poem) Crow & Cross Keys, February 7, 2024.
- 2025 Rhysling nomination | finalist (honorable mention)

“The river god dreams of death by water” (poem) Abyss & Apex, October 1, 2022.
- 2023 Rhysling nomination | finalist
“The sand garden” (poem) After the pause, pp. 33-34, March 2022.
“The bone moon above Kōdaiji: A Quartet” (poem) The Deadlands, February 10, 2022.

The Black Trees of Kakushima Burning (poetry collection – micro-chapbook) part of the 2021 Summer Series from Ghost City Press, August 2, 2021.
Rose Ambient (poetry collection – chapbook) Weasel Press, July 2021.
“The karyōbinga sings to Jiro” (short story) Strange Horizons, January 11, 2021.

“karesansui / rock garden” (poem) After the pause, pp. 31 – 34, September 2020.
“The orange grove” (flash fiction) Flash Fiction Magazine, August 1, 2020.
“Dreaming in the Teahouse of Infinite Light” (poem) Enclave/Entropy, May 2020.
“Marriage Tree” [story 065] (flash fiction) 81 Word Stories, March 2020.

[零] A Phantom Zero (poetry collection – chapbook) The Operating System Press, June 2019.
- Strange Horizons review, February 17, 2020.
- “Infinite/Empty: The Bright Light of Attention” (interview) The Operating System Press, June 2019.

“The Discrete Fragments of Iris” (poem) Theta Wave, December 20, 2018.
Weird Words With Ryu Ando (interview) Pidgeonholes, April 19, 2018.
“The chances of rain,” (poem) RAIN/FLOOD issue, Pidgeonholes, March 21, 2018.
“Teahouse of the infinite light” (poem) The Syzygy Poetry Journal, January 31, 2018.

“The Drum Star (Orion’s Ghost)” (poem) Strange Horizons, Fund Drive Special, September 2017.
- 2018 Rhysling Award nomination

Lost Gardens of the Hakudo Maru (poetry collection) a…p press, October 2016; [Proceeds from this book go to support Japan Earthquake Relief Fund via Japan Society.]
- 2017 Elgin Award nomination
- Strange Horizons review, April 2017.
“Secrets Told In Ash and Mad Pomegranate” (poem) Through The Gate, May 22, 2016.
“Descendents of the Unbroken Energy (Modul 38_17)” (poem) Aught/Naught issue, page 6, Pidgeonholes, March 2016.

“Dark Lotus, Black Noise” (poem) Kintsugi issue, page 40, Pidgeonholes, December 2015.
- Pushcart Prize nomination
- Best of the Net nomination
“Spanning, as it does, the edge” (poem) Liquid Imagination, November 2015.
“The Loving Spiral” (poem) Zetetic: A Record of Unusual Inquiry, October 2015.
“Season of the Ginzakura” (poem) Strange Horizons, July 13, 2015.
- Strange Horizons 2015 Readers’ Poll – 4th place
- 2016 Rhysling Award nomination
“Deep Blue Yonder” (flash fiction) Unbroken, June 2015.
- Best Small Fictions nomination
“Trash Man Fumio” (fiction) Liquid Imagination, May 2015.

“Kumori-cloud and the Memento Mori” (fiction) Pravic Magazine (Via Internet Archive Wayback Machine), 2014.
“ChikaTetsuo” (fiction) mixer (post genre) (Via Internet Archive Wayback Machine), August 2014.
“Infinite (∞) LDK” (fiction) Perihelion (Via Internet Archive Wayback Machine), February 2014.
“A Taste of Ash & Mad Pomegranates” (fiction) Honorable Mention for Spark: A Creative Anthology Contest Four: Winter, January 2014.
“Port of Call” (flash fiction) Apocrypha and Abstractions, November 2013.
“The Big-Ass Tokusatsu Dust Ball” (fiction) Churn Thy Butter, August 2013. [link is broken]

[Updated June 2026]