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essays

  • Power, Morality, and the “Female Gaze”: On Eliza Clark’s “Boy Parts” Cleveland Review of Books

  • Review: As I Fall Apart by Oriana Rose, with illustrations by Natasha Natarajan Lucy Writers Platform

poetry – print

  • AIRPORT BABY and HAVE YOU DONE SOMETHING TO DISPLEASE GOD pinky

  • WHY DOES SPRING ALWAYS FEEL LIKE SOMETHING IS DYING and other questions Catflap

  • manic episode Mizna - Myth and Memory

  • NEW GRIEF The Stinging Fly

  • POEM FOR ROTTING FRUIT — fourteen poems

  • BREAKING MY SILENCE: MY PET MOTH POOPED ON ME TODAY AND NOW I’M TOO DISGUSTED TO TOUCH IT AGAIN Sweet Tooth

  • Susan Sontag Bends a Picture in Her Hand and I Watch The Liminal Review

poetry – digital

  • CONCEPTUAL FRAGMENTATION chlorophyll

  • Exposure; PRESTIGE Coma (Community Mausoleum)

  • EPISTOLARY POEM Strange Horizons

  • EKPHRASIS ON SATURN, MARS, VENUS, AND JUPITER LINING UP IN RARE CELESTIAL SPECTACLE beestung

    Nominated for the 2023 Best of the Net Anthology

  • Job Security Protean Magazine

    Featured on Close Readings by Kamran Javadizadeh and Hanif Abdurraqib

  • CRIMINALITY Code Lit

    Best viewed on desktop

  • soft foraging Poetry Online

  • REMEMBER WHEN THEY TOLD US THE MUSHROOMS COULD TALK Alocasia

    Also available in print –– 99 queer writers on plants and nature

  • EXPLAIN THE UNIVERSE TO ME, I WANT IT THROUGH YOUR EYES DEAR Poetry

  • my true self is grocery shopping Longleaf Review

    Nominated for the Pushcart Prize & Nina Riggs Award

  • ELEGY FOR MY OWN ADORATION

    tenderness lit

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