Selected Works

If you’d like to get to know more about me through my writing, you can check out a selection of my published work below.

Book cover titled 'Water/Tongue' by Mai C. Doan, featuring an illustration of a girl in a red dress walking barefoot on water, with fish outlined in orange swimming beneath her, set against a dark teal and green textured background.

water/tongue

A 2020 Lambda Literary Award Finalist in Poetry

Ignited by the suicide of her great grandmother, mai c. doan conjures the visceral, the intuitive, and the felt to give voice to the gendered and intergenerational impacts of violence, colonialism, and American empire. Out from silence, water/tongue crafts a constellation of voices spanning time, geography, and dimension, illuminating a pathway for both healing and resistance, for both poetry and sharpened teeth.

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  • Inside a Chinese restaurant decorated for Chinese New Year, featuring wall decorations with red and gold Chinese symbols, a large framed landscape picture, a row of decorative fish plates on the wall, and tables with black chairs.

    Apogee Journal

    My piece, Late Summer 2020, in Apogee Journal, Issue 16

    Read here
  • A circular embroidered patch of a spotted leopard with yellow and blue highlights, surrounded by dark blue foliage, with the words 'The Recluse 16' at the top and 'August 2020' at the bottom on a light beige background.

    The Recluse

    Five poems in the Recluse, by the Poetry Project

    Read here
  • A beach scene with waves gently washing onto the sandy shore, featuring red flowers in the foreground, and overlaid text reading 'Transgressions: things I've learned from my body' and 'poetry & prose by mai c. doan.'

    TRANSGRESSIONS

    TRANSGRESSIONS, a digital poetry chapbook

    Read here

Interviews

Three Poets of Color on How Their First Book Came to Be, Rebellious Magazine, 2019

Interview with mai c doan, TIMBER Journal, 2018

Blessed Be #3 with Mai Doan, Anomaly Journal, 2016

Handwritten poem or note on yellow lined paper with black ink, describing feelings about gender and identity, mentioning a red dress, desert heat, cactus, aching, room, needs, sun, and metaphors about body, love, and riot.
Poetry poem titled 'I want' by Mai C Doan with yellow and teal accents, featuring the poem about desire for connection and authenticity, published previously in 'The Recluse' by the Poetry Project.
Close-up of pages from a zine titled 'Queer + Feminist Zine' with handwritten and printed text, black and white abstract illustrations, and a potted plant with glossy green leaves nearby.
A purple poster with a quote about poetry and medicine, decorated with flowers on the sides, displayed on a table with notes and candles around it.
Yellow notebook with black graphic and text on the cover, held by a hand, with a background of a floral arrangement in a glass vase and framed photographs.
Collection of torn paper strips with printed phrases about grief, the universe, and future, arranged on a brown surface.
A collage featuring a digital artwork of a mountain landscape at night with star-shaped lights, overlaid with black text boxes containing the phrases 'in grief we are guided,' 'by the warmth,' and 'of fire and the brightness.' The collage is set agai
A vibrant poster with a pink background divided by jagged gold glitter sections, featuring the word 'PULSE' at the top and a poem by Mai Cortez Doan about light, sound, song, and dancing.