Bellingham Review Contributor
Lana Reeves is a poet and composer from O’ahu, Hawai’i. A finalist for the 2025 Iowa Review Award in Poetry, her work is published or forthcoming in Gulf Coast, Black Warrior Review, Nashville Review, and elsewhere. Her writing has been supported by the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. She received her B.A. from Harvard University with a dual degree from the Berklee College of Music, and she is a current MFA fellow at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee.
Winner of the 2025 49th Parallel Award in Poetry Forget dull facts of shovel, pail, pump,and sail. Instead, shed curl and skin-scalelike gecko in every sweat-rimmed linen. Leavetraces, knowing the body has already gonemissing. Forget…