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publications
poetry
Perseids, Ruminate Magazine, Finalist for Broadside Prize (Forthcoming 2021)
First Date, Bending Genres (August 2020)
When I First Meet My Grandaunt, Barren Magazine (August 2020)
Manic Pixie Drunk Girl, Nutrition Facts, and Fortune Teller, Black Telephone Magazine (July 2020)
Pandemic Isolation, Day 2, Across the Social Distances (2020)
Self Portrait with Quarantine Instructions, Back Channels (2020)
Musical Interlude I, Headline Poetry Review (2020)
Self Portrait as an American Girl Doll, and Pandemic Isolation, Day 17, Wanderlust: A Travel Journal (2020)
Last Iowa Caucus, Pirene's Fountain: A Journal of Poetry (2020)
Poem for Mary and By a Creek, Boyertown, PA, Telepoem Booth Project, Council Bluffs, IA, Audio ( 2020)
At Lockwood Cafe, Revolute (2020)
Against Sentimentality, Salamander (Print 2020)
The House Plant, Poem with Depression, and Forgetting, Speech, Royal Rose Review (2020)
Portrait of the Alcoholic's Daughter, Ghost City Review (2020)
Texas Hunters Accidentally Shoot Each Other and Blame Immigrants, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review (Print 2020
Self Portrait Dating Mid-20s, thimble literary journal (2020)
Poem with Avoidant-Borderline Personality Disorder and Self-Portrait with a Lit Cigarette, honey & lime
To the Gnat Who Flew Into My Mouth, Storm of Blue Press (2019)
A Love Story, Or Not, Goliad Review (Forthcoming)
New Beginnings Haibun, Pidgeonholes
Nashville Man Accused of Assault with Biscuit and Thousands of Rare, Venomous Insects are Missing from the Philadelphia Insectarium, Affinity CoLab
Sunrise Pantoum with a Shrinking Sister, Lyrical Iowa (Print 2019), winner of Iowa Poetry Association's Special Award for First-Time Entrant
Self Portrait in the Insectarium, The Threepenny Review (Print 2019)
Self Portrait after Polar Vortex, The Hopkins Review (Print 2019)
To the Woman Who Said I Was "Too Normal" For Therapy, Poetry Daily (reprint, March 2019)
Self Portrait in a Thunderstorm, SWWIM
Promise, Better than Starbucks
Self-Portrait as Judas and Promise, peculiar
On Becoming, PHEMME
Jump Rope Songs for the Supply Chain, Maine Pastor Seeks to Banned Books at Library's Banned Book Display, Rush Limbaugh Shares Fake Story about Sharks Flying, Kumari Trishna Shakya, Three-Year Old Living Goddess, Nepal, Collective Unrest (Forthcoming 2019)
Days of 2000, Driftwood Press
Moses and Zipporah Attend a Roller Derby Game, Sport Literate (Print 2019)
Fox News Remembers Aretha Franklin With Photo of Patti LaBelle, New Verse News
Transformation, Occulum
For the Child I Can't Unhear Crying, Poets Reading the News
To the Baby Toad Who Lunged Under My Roller Skates at Ada Hayden Park and To the Woman Who Told Me I Was Too Normal for Therapy, Anomaly Literary Journal (Fall 2018)
Bathsheba Wants to Write #metoo, Writers Resist
Kayaking in Okatoma, MS, Eunoia Review
For Rohingya Women, BONED
The Woman on the Airplane with the Emotional Support Peacock and Don't Panic, Tuck Magazine
For Two Weeks, Farming in Peru and Grasshopper-Dying in Peru, Coldnoon
Doubting Thomas Volunteers at an Alabama Senate Poll, Poets Reading the News
First Fig and Take It From a Rufous-Collared Sparrow, Drunk Monkeys
Ketoacidosis and Writing Around the Self, Jet Fuel Review
Observing Silence at the Baha'i House of Worship, Wilmette, IL, Green Blotter
The Teacup, The Motherland, and Memory: Age Six, The Rectangle (A Sigma Tau Delta publication)
Vashti, Badlands Review
Lotus, North Central Review
Breathless Autumn, Southword Journal Online
essays, interviews, and reviews
The Power of Poetry in a Pandemic, Interview at Iowa Public Radio, River to River program
Review of Heather Minette's Half-Light, {isacoustic*}
Guest Blog Post on the Transformative Power of Poetry, Trish Hopkinson's Poetry Blog
6 Ways to Improve Writing Productivity—And Quality, Writer's Digest Poetic Asides Blog
In Defense of Timely, Rather than Timeless, Poetry, The University of Arizona Poetry Center
Interview, Poetry Mini Interview Series
Review of Aimee Nezhukumatathil's "Oceanic", Flyway: Journal of Writing and Environment
Review of Michelle Menting's "Leaves Surface Like Skin," Flyway: Journal of Writing and Environment
Interview, Poetry and Creativity Blog