"She made, by working very hard, enough to live on...for here begins the freedom of the mind, or rather, the possibility that in the course of time the mind will be free to write what it likes." -Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own

Poetry

"Beach Front Property"
Los Angeles Poets for Justice, A Document for the People
January 2021
www.lapoetsociety.org/product-page/los-angeles-poets-for-justice-a-document-for-the-people

"Neuroplasticity (A Sestina)"
Packingtown Review
Issue 17, Spring 2022
www.packingtownreview.com/issues/17/ochoa/neuroplasticity.html#share

"Writing is Like a Bloodletting"
The Opiate Magazine
February 2022
theopiatemagazine.com/2022/02/26/writing-is-like-a-bloodletting-by-elise-swanson-ochoa/

"Leave Me Be, Light"
Spectrum
Spring 2022
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""A Farmworkers Ballad"
Word West Revue
Issue 1, October 2023
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"Ode to Old Spanish Days"
Santa Barbara inaugural Old Spanish Days Poetry Contest
Winner
July 2026
www.independent.com/2026/07/29/poetry-connection-fiesta-meets-poetry/


Prose

Fiction

"Desert Crossing"
The Wrath-Bearing Tree
Issue 55, August 2021
www.wrath-bearingtree.com/2021/08/02/new-flash-fiction-from-elise-ochoa-desert-crossing/

"Her Urban Bungalow"
The Loch Raven Review
Vol. 18 no. 1, April 2022
thelochravenreview.net/elise-swanson-ochoa/

"The Shadow on Her Finger"
Five on the Fifth
Vol. 8 Issue  2, December 2022
www.fiveonthefifth.com/vol-8-issue-2-story-3

"A Body in the Bastion of Conceit"
Coalitionworks
Fall 2023
coalitionfordigitalnarratives.org/2023/11/01/elise-swanson-ochoa-a-body-in-the-bastion-of-conceit/

"Rigoberto's Berries"
Doubleback Review
Issue 6:1, April 2024
doublebackreview.com/issue-6-1-april-2024/ochoa-rigoberto/

"A Year on the Patio"
Allium, A Journal of Poetry & Prose
Summer 2024
allium.colum.edu/summer-2024-fiction/elise-swanson-ochoa

"Bright Blue Flame Like Me"
The Penmen Review
Summer 2024
penmenreview.com/bright-blue-flame-like-me/

Non-fiction

"Universities Can Offer the Whole Universe"
The Daily Bruin
June 2009
dailybruin.com/2009/06/07/iuniversities-can-offer-whole-universei