Writing

Babak Lakghomi is the author of Floating Notes (Tyrant Books, 2018). His writing has appeared in American Short Fiction, NOON, Ninth Letter, New York Tyrant, and Green Mountains Review, among other places. Babak currently lives and writes in Toronto.

Writing

2024

“Boris in Bed”, Sleepingfish 20th Anniversary Issue (Print only)

Little to See”, R&R Literary Magazine

2023

All I heard Was the Humming of Machines” (Excerpt from South), Fence Magazine

The Priest’s House”, Oyez Review

Seven Months, Seven Days”, Archway Editions Journal

2022

“The Pastry Shop” X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine (Longlisted for 2023 Wigleaf Top 50 )

“The Seeds of the Lotus Flower” Neutral Spaces Issue 3

“For What May Still Be There” The Adroit Journal (Selected for Best Small Fictions 2023)

2021

“The Rat Man” Post Road

“The Swan” Neutral Spaces Issue 2

2020

“The North” American Short Fiction (Reappeared in Best Small Fictions)

“What She Could Not Make” New York Tyrant

A Little Bit of Touch” Witch Craft Magazine Issue 6 (Print only)

2019

“Fukimo” Ninth Letter Fall/Winter 2019-2020 (Print only)

“Everything Green” Neutral Spaces Issue 1

“Two Stories” New Sinews Issue 2

“Only Fragments” Pulpmouth (Nominated for Pushcart)

“Three Shorts” Juked

“Many Fathers Away” Hobart

“Here to Forget” Big Other

“Everything Green” Egress 2 (Print only)

2018

“No Signs” Green Mountains Review (Nominated for Pushcart)

“Her First” New York Tyrant

“How This Will End” Bending Genres

“I Kept Looking for It” X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine

"The Mourner" NOON Annual (Print only)

"They Had Turned into Something Else" Heavy Feather Review Vol. 7 

"In Good Hands" Cassette 85 Dostoyevsky Wannabe (Print only)

"Word Count" Cassette 85 Dostoyevsky Wannabe (Print only)

"The Tallest Tree in the Town" Cassette 85 Dostoyevsky Wannabe (Print only)

2017

"Shelter" New York Tyrant

"Two Pills" New York Tyrant

"Water, Ball, Blue" (b)oink (Longlisted for Wigleaf 2018)

2016

"The Closet-Woman" The Citron Review (Nominated for Pushcart)