Bottlecap Press, 2026

In Animism, Penny Wei transforms flowers and natural concepts into vessels of memory, piety, love, grief, and longing. Guided by the belief that all things possess a spirit, the collection moves through a garden of camellias, zinnias, primroses, poppies, and forget-me-nots, where blossoms become companions to daughters, lovers, mothers, friends, and ghosts. Through lush imagery and inventive lyricism, Wei explores the hidden lives of emotions — how love persists in ordinary objects.

Fae Corps Publishing, 2027

Postnatal is a poetry chapbook exploring womanhood as a condition of inheritance. Moving through motherhood, pregnancy, migration, intimacy, aging, and the complicated geographies of China, South Korea and elsewhere, these poems examine what women inherit from one another. Blending bodily imagery with ecological and surreal landscapes, Postnatal asks what it means to be born from women, to become one, and to carry generations of love, violence, and longing within the body.

Glass Poetry Press, 2026

In Her Other Fragile Inheritances, Penny Wei explores the legacies women carry across generations through linguistics, grief, faith, migration, and dreams. Moving between two continents, these poems trace Chinese characters as mythologies, fish markets as cathedrals, and inherited grief into unexpected forms of tenderness. Lyrical and deeply compassionate, Wei's debut chapbook examines how daughters inherit both wounds and wonder—and how they piece together a self from what remains.