Category: Publications

Excited to announce that my poem, “Black Hills,” is featured in the spring issue of Humana Obscura! For those unfamiliar, Humana Obscura is a breath of fresh air in the nature genre, dedicated to publishing poetry and art that reflects the human and animal in the world around us. This issue overflows with arresting photography and poignant poetry—don’t miss Hilda Weiss’s “Sorrel Leaves,” Sam Aureli’s “On Living,” or “haiku” by Stella Damarjati. You can find my work, “Black Hills”, on page 102 of the digital edition.

Read the full issue here.

Thrilled to share that my poem, “The Names of God are Seven,” appears in the latest edition of mojo, published by Wichita State. This edition, mojo20, is their first installment since COVID and marks a delightful (and distinctly absurdist) return to the literary world. Don’t miss “My First Night Sleeping in Another Woman’s Nightgown” by Barbara Baer, or “Strangers on Sunday, Somewhere” by Alicia Turner in your perusal! This post’s featured image, also from this issue, is “Daughters of Athens” by Hannah Frey.

Read the full issue here.

Ever wondered what goes on inside a snake’s mind? It’s more than just rats and cozy rocks to hide under… but not much more. Discover the rich inner life of one young ball python in my latest, “Narcissus at the Water Dish.” Check it out in JAKE, the Anti-Literary Magazine.

The snake this story was based on is pictured above. His name is Dandelion. He’s a banana ball python, and he’s as wonderful and dumb as he looks.

Read “Narcissus at the Water Dish” here.

It’s funny how cyclical life is. Two years ago, I was grieving a really miserable breakup and treating that problem with the universal, one-size-fits-all solution: martial arts. I’d started jujitsu and was processing the new reality I lived in with a new way of moving my body. I wrote a lot about the experience, as it happened, and again as I reflected on it.

Now, having just fallen off the edge of another, very different heartbreak, it’s so strange to read the same poems and still feel such kinship with this old version of myself. I still do jiujitsu. I still carry a tremendous amount of grief. For some of the same reasons, even.

And it’s still hard to feel sad and self-flagellatory when faced with much more immediate problems (like an aggressive side control).

I have three poems on grappling out in Bruiser. You can read ’em here.

We’re back, with the first publication of 2024! I’m pleased to share that my work, On the Unfathomable Loyalty of Pain, appears in the third volume of Ghost Girls. Over the past few years, I’ve developed a really pernicious habit of writing poems (one of my favorite hobbies) about my other favorite hobby: martial arts. This piece is a study on the ways in which incredible pain can be soothed with healing found in the most unexpected of places: incredible violence.

Read On the Unfathomable Loyalty of Pain on page 146.

I’m honored (and a little awed) to share that my work appears in the latest issue of Witness Magazine, produced by Black Mountain Institute at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. This magazine consistently publishes insightful, arresting, and timely work that truly, as their history section states, “defines its historical moment”. This issue, Winter 2023, contains stunning work like Postmemory, 1991, Sin of Omission, The Water Is Not the Faucet, and more.

My work, Wilderness, New Mexico, is a story that’s near and dear to my heart. It holds a little loneliness, a lot of snark, and dust. Lots and lots of desert dust.

I hope you like it.

Read Wilderness, New Mexico here.

So incredibly thrilled and honored to share that my work appears in Issue 48 of Eye to the Telescope, a quarterly journal of speculative poetry produced by the Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association. This publication is a dream come true.

The issue’s theme? Fungi. 🍄

The work? “An Invitation to the Decomposition Party”.

Special shout-out to guest editor Avra Margariti, who is actually how I found out about the opportunity in the first place. I saw her call for mushroom-related poetry on Twitter—and I’ve never dropped what I was doing to submit to something so fast in my life. Thanks for also loving mushrooms, Avra!

Check out the complete issue here.

New stuff, hot off the press! It’s always so fun to have a piece find a home within the first couple of submissions, and see work in print that you wrote within the last year. (As opposed to something from 5-6 years ago that’s been through multiple lives and a long and arduous submission journey.)

And so, without further ado, I am pleased to share that “A Warning About Beginnings; Which I Will Invariably Disregard with Pomp and Aplomb”, appears in the fourth issue of Neuro Magazine.

Check it out on page 17 here!

Thrilled to share that my short story “The Children of Stonemasons” appears in Issue Four of Suburban Witchcraft! This publication is particularly sentimental for me, since I’ve legitimately been working on this story since college. I wrote the first draft on the winter break of my Sophomore year, after reading Catherynne Valente’s In the Cities of Coin and Spice for the first time. It lay around in my drafts and discard folders for ages, in a liminal state between complete abandonment and much-needed editing.

I ran across it again last year and gave it the love it needed to go out into the world, and well, the rest is history.

So, enjoy this blast from the past!

Read it now on page 118!

Pleased to be featured in the inaugural issue of bloodbathhate! “A love letter from Charybdis” (mine), appears about halfway down the page, so be sure to check out all the stellar work before and after. “The last supper at a strip club” by LE Francis and “the cynic’s love song to indifference” by Phoenix Tesni. Lots of talent showcased here, worth a quick scroll.

Read Issue 1 of bloodbathhate here.

Art also from this issue of bloodbathhate by Chloe Coblentz.