Publications

The Sharp Edges of Water

A Narrowing Path

Stray

Anthologies

Cryptid Carols to Sing in the Dark

This poetry anthology, published by Memento Vivere Press, features the poem “The Djinn at Saturnalia” by Angélique Jamail.
Dark fantasy meets cozy horror meets your cold weather fears.
This season, trade your boring silent nights for the things that go B U M P in the night.
A delectably strange collection for those who like a little more lurk with their holiday lore.
Sing along, chitter along, or just mutter incoherently to Cryptid Carols to Sing in the Dark.
Weird little rhymes featuring Bigfoot, Djinn, Hodag, Ifrit, Kelpie, Loup Garou, Mothman, Pegasus, Pigman, Witte Wieven, and more.
To purchase a copy, please see Angélique Jamail at one of her live events.

The Milk of Female Kindness

“Mother” is a word heavy with associations.
Becoming a mother is surely one of the biggest changes and challenges in a woman’s life. It is at once an absolutely unique experience, and yet one which is so common that it is often overlooked. Motherhood is intense, relentless and absorbing, in all senses of the word.
Popular culture seems to have a split personality when it comes to motherhood — at once holding it up as a sacred ideal, and yet being a little dismissive of women as mothers.
A diverse international group of women have been brave enough to share their stories, poetry and artwork to encourage you to think and feel about this most influential of relationships in a new and enlightened way.
Angélique Jamail’s poetry and essays appear in this anthology, which includes authors and artists from all over the world.
To purchase a copy, please see her at one of her live events.

This is a significantly condensed list of published works by Angélique Jamail.

Books

Stray (Fiction, Memento Vivere Press, 2026)
A Narrowing Path (Fiction, Memento Vivere Press, 2025)
Homecoming (Fiction, Odeon Press, 2020)
The Sharp Edges of Water (Poetry, Odeon Press, 2018)
Finis. (Fiction, Odeon Press, 2014)

Short Stories

“Mother” (Spider Road Press, 2019, also nominated for Best Small Fictions)

Non-Fiction

“The Kirby Store” (Synkroniciti, April 2024, winner of their “family” essay contest)
“Finding More Than What Is Vanished: A Review of The Night She Went Missing” (LiteraryMama, July/August 2022))
“Thoughts and Slayers: What We Do About Grendel, Our Most Persistent Villain” (New Reader Magazine 3, 2018)
“Making the Better World: A Review of Erika Johansen’s Tearling Trilogy” (Femmeliterate blog, August 7, 2017)
“DFWCon: A Writers’ Conference with Something for Everyone” (WriteSpace blog, November 25, 2015)
“Rêveuse” (Femmeliterate blog, November 13, 2015)
“Tell Me” (Jennifer Brozek’s blog, June 10, 2015)
“Flaunt your spring hat at The St. Regis Hotel and The Serenitea Tea Room” (Bayou City Magazine blog, April 30, 2014)
“Mama Spider’s Sacrifice” (The Milk of Female Kindness – An Anthology of Honest Motherhood, 2013)
“Yearning for Makeover: Jane Austen, Stacy and Clinton, and the Undaunted Nature of Writer’s Block” (The Milk of Female Kindness – An Anthology of Honest Motherhood, 2013)
“The Case for Clinging to Tradition, or Yeah, I was a Debutante, But It’s Not Like That” (Pluck Magazine, September 29, 2011)
“Where Do You Keep Your Pizza?: Chasing Flies with Ansuya” (North Texas Middle Eastern Dance Association magazine, 2006)
“Gala Show and Benefit a Wild Success!” (Houston Area BellyDance Association newsletter, August 2003)
“HABDA General Meeting for May Held at Lucia’s Garden” (Houston Area BellyDance Association newsletter August 2003, co-written with Shelley Fahrenthold)
“Momo Kadous at Sirrom School of Dance” (Houston Area BellyDance Association newsletter June/July 2003)

Poems

“Prayer” (Equinox, spring 2025)
“Refuge” (Equinox, spring 2024)
“The Elder Sister (1869) by William Adolphe-Bougereau” (Synkroniciti, April 2024)
“Recipe for My Daughter” (Synkroniciti, April 2024)
“Epiphany” and “Magdalen” (A Fire to Light Our Tongues: Texas Writers on Spirituality, 2022)
“The Path Often Traveled, the Path Less Celebrated, the Path of Ennobled Resistance” (Yellow Chair Review, November 10, 2016)
“one day past quite ripe…” (Haikuniverse, December 28, 2015)
“Dead rosehips caught on…” (Haikuniverse, October 2, 2015)
“The Complicated and the Simple” (Untameable City, 2015)
“At the El Felix” (Houston Poetry Fest Anthology 2014)
“Stillness / Unrelenting” (Waxwing Issue IV, October 2014)
“Sleeping with the Morning Radio Newscast” (The Milk of Female Kindness – An Anthology of Honest Motherhood, 2013)
“Something Like Survivor’s Guilt” (The Milk of Female Kindness – An Anthology of Honest Motherhood, 2013)
“Poem for Mothers” (The Milk of Female Kindness – An Anthology of Honest Motherhood , 2013)
“Recipe for My Daughter” (Improbable Worlds, 2011 and Houston Poetry Fest Anthology 2011)
“The Elder Sister (1869) by William-Adolphe Bouguereau” (Time-Slice, 2005)
“Trying to Catch Up” (Houston Poetry Fest Anthology 2002)
“New Love in Dead Cornfields” (Educators’ Poetry Anthology, 2002)
“Moving to Green Rain Island, Your Home” (Houston Poetry Fest Anthology 1999)
“Advent” (A Generation Defining Itself 5)
“The Fifth Grade Teacher” (Curbside Review and Suddenly V)
“Commonly Occurring in Villages, Hamlets, and On Hearths Around Our Great Land” (Curbside Review)

Libretto

“The Idea of Late in the Year” (for composer Michael Slayton, 1998)

To purchase any of Angélique’s books or any print anthologies or journals containing her individual poems and essays, please contact your local bookstore or the press which published any particular anthology. Books may be ordered through Ingram if they aren’t already in stock. You may also send an email to forest.of.diamonds@gmail.com for more information.