Donna Baier Stein’s Journals 

  • A Landing Called Compromise
    Best Short Stories from the Saturday Evening Post Great American Fiction Contest 2018

    Prodigal Son
    Gargoyle, Issue 65

    Under the Weight of the Mother’s Body
    Free State Review, Fall 2015

    The Sweet Perfume of Somewhere Else
    St. Ann’s Review, Fall 2015

    Pointing East, Where Things Happen
    The Summerset Review, 2014 (Fall)

    News Feed
    The Southampton Review, Vol. VII, No. 2, 2013 (Summer)

    My Lovers #1-5, Or Why I Hate Kenny Rogers
    New Ohio Review, No. 14, 2013 (Fall)

    The Second Time the Bird Escaped
    Licking River Review, Vol. 44, 2012/2013 (Winter/Spring)

    Morning Train – PUSHCART NOMINEE
    Forge Journal 5.4, 2012

    Trouble at the Dance Hall
    Green Hills Literary Lantern, 2012

    Cover Up
    Puerto de Sol, Vol. 39 No. 1, 2004 (Spring)

    Spring 1933
    Virginia Quarterly Review, VOL. 79, NO. 1 2003 (Winter)

    Coming Clean
    The Literary Review, Volume 46, Number 4, Summer 2003

    On The Banks of the Save
    Confrontation, Spring/Summer 2002

    The Jewel Box
    The Paterson Literary Review, Issue 30 (2001)

    Light
    New York Stories, 2000 (Spring)

    Woodworm
    Mangrove, Number 9, 2000

    The Darkness of Your Back Pocket
    The Alembic 2000 (Spring)

    El Nino
    The Florida Review, Volume 24, Number 2, Summer 1999

    Lambada
    The South Carolina Review, Volume 28, Number 2, Spring 1996

    The Great Drawing Board in the Sky
    Prairie Schooner, Vol. 69 No. 3, 1995 (Fall)

    Hindsight – PUSHCART NOMINEE
    The Kansas Quarterly, Volume 24, Numbers 2&3

    Versions
    Evidence of Community: Writing From the Jenny McKean Moore Workshops at G.W.U., No 11 (book anthology)

    In HeraklionThe G.W. Review, Volume 5, Number 3

    The Yogi and the Peacock,
    G.W. Review, Volume 8, Number 1

    Smoke
    Santa Clara Review, Vol. 80 No. 2, 1993 (Winter)

    The Secrets of Snakes
    The Florida Review, Vol. XIX No. 1, 1993

    Mushrooms
    New Virginia Review, Vol. 9 No. 1, 1992 (Winter)

    Angels
    Iowa Woman, Vol. 12 No. 3, 1992 (Autumn)

  • “Pandemic Stress Leads to Forgetting and Remembering”
    Article on PBS’ Next Avenue

    “Even an Hour is Helpful – An Interview with Ronna Wineberg”
    Blog post on Fiction Writer’s Review

    “Baby Doe Tabor – A Woman Who Refused To Be Made a Fool By Any Man”
    Blog post on Heroes, Heroines and History

    Worth a Thousand Words
    Writers Digest, Summer 2016

    Art for Contemporary Writers
    Writers Digest, Summer 2016

    Ecuador, Evolution, and Vonnegut’s Take on the Human Brain
    The Literary Explorer 2015

    Mile High Menopause
    F    ree State Review 2014

    Rejection: Writers of a Certain Age, and the Persistence of Hope
    Lisa Romeo Blog on Writing 2014

    Silence, Writing, and Repair of the World
    The Round-Brown University journal 2014 (Fall)

    What about the Heroine?
    Elephant Journal 2011

  • Those Terrible Days That Followed
    LIPS, Spring 2020

    Fishing with My Father
    Accepted by Prime Number Magazine for publication October 2016

    The Orphanage at St. John the Baptist Retreat Center
    Verse Virtual, July 2016

    Remembering Mark Strand
    LIPS, Vol 42/43, 2015 (Spring)

    The Frog King
    Verse Virtual, March 2015 (republished)

    King Kong
    Verse Virtual, April 2015 (republished)

    La Secherasse
    Exit 13, issue 2 (2015)

    The Visit
    Edison Literary Review, Vol. 13, 2014 (Fall)

    Roget’s Thesaurus and This Meditation
    Pirene’s Fountain, Vol. 7 issue 15, 2014

    Hospital
    Paterson Literary Review, issue 41, 2013 (Fall)

    You Asked What Sustains Me
    Paterson Literary Review, Issue 41, 2013 (Fall)

    Conversation
    The Stillwater Review, Vol. 3, 2013

    The Yellow Brick Road
    Soundings East, Vol. 34 No. 1, 2013

    Iphigenia
    Notre Dame Review, No. 14, 2012 (Summer)

    Two Beloved Poems
    The Criterion, Vol. 1 Issue II, 2010

    Comfort Zone
    The Literary Review, Vol. 47 No. 2, 2004 (Winter)

    It Could Be Sarah
    The Literary Review, Vol. 47 No. 3, 2004 (Spring)

    The Frog King
    Many Mountains Moving, Vol. 5 No. 2, 2003

    King Kong
    Ascent, Vol. 26 No.2, 2002 (Winter)

    First Winter in Lexington
    RE:AL, Vol. 27, Nos. 1&2, Spring/Fall 2002

    Fishing
    The Spoon River Poetry Review, Vol 27, No 2, S/F 2002

    At the Tomb of the Baron
    RE:AL, The Journal of the Liberal Arts, Vol. 27 No. 1&2, 2002 (Spring)

    The Bear Paw
    The Literary Review, Vol 44, No 4, Summer 2001

    Birth
    Poet Lore, Vol. 96, Number 3, Fall 2001

    Chasing Down the Dream
    Sou’ wester, Vol 30, No 1, Fall/Winter 2001

    On My Father’s 70th Birthday
    The Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review, Winter 2001

    Jack and the Beanstalk
    The South Carolina Review, Vol 28, No 2, Spring 1996

    For We Are Kin
    Embers 1992

    Iphigenia
    Embers, Vol. XVII No.1, 1992 (Spring)

    Glen Echo
    The Washingtonian, 1991 (March)

    La Secheresse
    Carolina Quarterly, Volume 43, Number 2, Winter 1991

    Watchman of the Night
    The Beloit Poetry Journal, Vol 41, No 3, Spring 1991

    Fortune’s Fancy and Apples, Rappahannock County
    The Poet’s Domain, Volume 1, 1990

    Hard Winter
    Phoebe, Vol. 17, Number 2, Winter 1988

    Crosstitch
    Phoebe, Volume 17, Numbers 3&4, Summer 1988

    At Dawn Beach and Wooing Lady Luck
    The Caribbean Writer, Vol 1, No 1, Spring 1987

    Leonidion
    Folio, Vol. 3 No. 1, 1986 READ

    Mute
    Antietam Review, 1985

    Tycho Brahe & the Supernova
    Phoebe, Vol. 14, Number 3&4, Spring, 1985

    Still Life at the National Archives
    The Washingtonian, 1984 (June)

    Cat
    The Archer, Vol. XXVI No. 4, 1981 (Winter)

    I Admire the Strength of Old Women
    Black Buzzard Review, Fifth Anniversary Edition

    Between Seasons and Sometimes You Sense the Difference
    The Kansas Quarterly, Vol 16, Nos 1-2 1984

    For We Are Kin
    Embers, Volume 17, Number 1

    Landslide
    Midwest Quarterly