You can find my poetry here:
The Chesapeake Reader, “Babka”
Fredericksburg Literary Arts Review, “Barren” and “Surviving the Pause”
La Casita Grande, “To Risk the Sea”
Poet’s Choice, The Joys of Aging, “Girl, Interrupted”
Poet’s Choice, Change is the Only Constant, “Settling”
PoetryXHunger, “When Schools are Soup Kitchens”
Tofu Ink Arts Press, “Self-portrait as a Tehuana, 1943” Winner of the at-large NFPW Communications Contest
MERVOX, “Protogenoi”
Tempered Runes Press, Bluing the Blade, “Ready for Sunshine” and “Solve for x”
Cauldron Anthology, Issue 13-Maiden, “No Ocean Spit Me Out”
Mythos Poets Society, The Mirror of Medusa, “At Least They’ll Keep Their Heads” and “Medusa Rises”
Holiday Cafe, "Is My Tree Dying or Dead"
Mythos Poets Society, Tales of the Changing Seasons, “Why the Nights Grow Long”
Instant Noodles, Hot Buttered Holidays, “Going Home”
The Ekphrastic Review, Writing Challenges, “As Above, So Below”
MacQueen’s Quinterly, Issue 11: finalist in Triple-Q Writing Challenge, “Dinner Suggestion”
Superfroot, Issue Two, “Just the Once”
Mythos Poets Society, Born of the Moon, “Lunar Lullaby”
Library Love Letter, Letters One, “My Poetry Journal is Not Quite a Grimoire” and “A Sonnet for the Words”
TL;DR, Breathless, “Let This Be How It Ends”
The Ekphrastic Review, Starry, Starry Night Anthology, “Failed Ekphrasis”
Equinox, Vol. 2 Spring, “Citizen’s Arrest”
Lothlorien Poetry Journal, “Act of Contrition,” “Cretaceous Trepidation,” and “Everything’s on Fire”
*also now included in Lothlorien Volume 10, available in print!
Concataverse, ed. Trevor Maynard, “drunk,” “ifweburythishatchet,” “aplaceofprivilege,” “somethingmorecomfortable”
They Call Us, Matrons, “Warrior Queen”
Black Hare Press, Eldritch & Ether, “A Girl’s Gotta Eat,” “The Seafloor is Littered With Biogenic Sand,” “Unnecessary Culling,” “Witness the Birth of a Galaxy”
Muddy River Poetry Review, #26 Spring 2022, “I Understand Crossroads,” “I remember,” and “Hand Me Down”
Quillkeeper’s Press, Botany of Gaia, “Full Moon Over the Ocean” and “Willow”
Sweetycat Press, Movement: Our Bodies in Action, “Running Over the Hill”
Tofu Ink, Vol. 4, Summer 2022 “Raised Catholic” “This I Know” “Worry Stone”
Pure Slush, Cow, “Grandpa Russ”
Moss Piglet, July 2022, “I’ll Never Be Your Darling”
The POET Magazine, Family, “The Statistics of Thanksgiving”
Vermillion, Flash Issue 9, “A Sliver of Sky”
Better Than Starbucks, August 2022, “While in Traffic Near the GW Parkway”
SPANK the CARP, Pond 70, “Empty Does Not Mean Fallow”
The Quarter(ly), Volume 2: Myths, Fables, and Folklore, “In the Name of Progress”
The Ekphrastic Review, “When a Woman Reaches Supernova”
Sweetycat Press, Zooanthology, “Population Control”
Full House Literary, Tarot 3, “Wearing Your Absence”
The Ekphrastic Review, Lucky 7, “A Prayer for Selene”
Raven’s Quoth Press, Tempest, “Coalescence” and “Rhapsodies and Refuge”
WayWords, Issue 7: Vacation, “Why Did the Bear Cross the Road?”
Instant Noodles, Pathos, “Nothing’s Better Left Unsaid” and “Burn It Down”
Witches Mag, Issue 6: Fear, “A Study in Begging for Forgiveness”
Toil & Trouble, Issue 1: Magic, “Baths are Less Magical as a Grown Up”
Pure Slush, Snatches of an Aria: Music Folio 1, “O Del Mio Dolce Ardor”
Sweetycat Press, The Gift, “Language is a Gift”
Black Hare Press, Wimbledon Common, “Don’t Linger on the Shore”
One Art, “What We Can Gather”
Off Topic Publishing, November Contest Winner, “I Should Have Asked Sooner”
Willows Wept Review, Issue 23: Winter 2023, “Bug Bites” and “An Excerpt from a Sommelier’s CV”
Moss Piglet, December 2022, “Late Season Snow”
Devil’s Party Press, Solstice: A Winter Anthology Vol. 2, “All the Leaves are Brown,” “Winter Wardrobe,” “At Least Our Hearts Were Warm”
The Ekphrastic Review, The Art of Tarot, “Hang Nine Swords Above my Bed”
They Call Us, Murderers, “Under His Watchful Eye”
Isele Magazine Quarterly, Issue 6: Food, “Einstein Brothers Bagels,” “Filling the Table,” and “Recipe 12682: Apple Pie by Grandma Ople”
Roi Faineant Press, Screen Door 34, “Collecting Artificial Parts”
Topical Poetry, Issue 53, “Quantum Physics Proves There is No Such Thing as Nothing”
Equinox, Fire|Flies, “We’re All Too Busy to See the World Burning”
Plant-Human Quarterly, Issue 8, “Agricultural Revolution”
Anti-heroin Chic, Issue 31, “I Don’t Like Sundays”
The Stygian Lepus, Issue One, “Easy Prey” and “From the Monster”
Gnashing Teeth Publishing, Poem a Day Series 2023, “Berry Picking”
Tiny Wren Publishing, All Poems Are Ghosts, “Hobbies”
Fish Barrel Review, Issue 6, “You Are Still Everywhere I Look”
Magpie Messenger, Summer 2023, “Ready to Burn,” “Summer is the Season of Guilt”
Raven’s Quoth Press, Dream 2, “Oh, to Brood,” “Slip Stitch,” “You, Me, and Twinings”
Songs of Eretz, Summer 2023: Second Point of View Issue, “Birthday Text to my Dead Best Friend’s Wife”
Pen in Hand, July 2023, “Aubade” and “A Lesson in Petrification”
Washington Writers’ Publishing House, 2023 Special Edition, “Improving Air Quality”
Visual Verse, Vol. 10, Chapter 10, “I Never Wanted a Brother”
Thread Lit Mag, “Treading Water”
Visual Verse, Vol. 10, Chapter 10, “Life Cycles”
Verse-Virtual, October 2023 VOL 10 NO 10, “At Least the Books Didn’t Burn,” “Don’t Let Them Hold Your Breath Hostage,” “The New Melancholy”
The Blood Rag, Issue 16, “Frida Knew”
Last Stanza Poetry Journal, Issue 14, “The Sister I Never Knew”
The Stygian Lepus, Issue 7, “Domination” and “Moon’s Glow”
Cosmic Daffodil Journal, Lights Out, “Spawn Camping”
Plants and Poetry, Plant People Vol. 3, “A Lesson in Photosynthesis”
Deep Overstock, Issue 23: Ghosts, “I Summon Our Dead Sister to Our Dying Father’s Bedside” and “Sleeping In”
Instant Noodles, COo0ld Turkey, “A Mother’s Holiday Prayer”
Gnashing Teeth Publishing, Dead Girl Erased, “42”
Poetry Catalog, “Semi-Amicable”
Pure Slush, Loss, “I Was Never Good at Sharing”
Carmina Magazine, March 2024, “Why the Nights Grow Long”
Gnashing Teeth Publishing, Poem a Day Series 2024, “Grief is a Growing Business”
Instant Noodles, Instant, “Contraction”
Isele Magazine, Issue 10: Grief, “Even Death Can Become a Cliché” “Your Shirts No Longer Smell Like You,” “Pick the Best Possible Answer”
Silver Birch Press, “She Promised Us Each a Quilt”
Poetry Catalog, “Tools of the Trade”
World Enough Writers, Three Hearts: An Anthology of Cephalopod Poetry, “Subclass Coleoidea” and “There are Hawaiian Squid in Space”
Old Scratch Press, No Ocean Spit Me Out
Verse-Virtual, July 2024, “On the Pending 2024 Election” and “Body Parts Found in Landing Gear of Flight from Kabul, Officials Say”
Pen in Hand, July 2024, “Fabrication” and “Trapped on a Farm”
One Art, “I Don’t Usually Believe in Omens,” “Nothing Wasted,” and “It Doesn’t Go Down Easy”
5haikuspoken, Issue 9, “Stained Concrete”
Four Feathers Press, Dead Days, “On This Day” and “I Need a Minute”
Four Feathers Press, Grass Leaves, “I’m as Bare as the Tidal Basin” and “When it Rains on Thanksgiving”
Pen in Hand, January 2025, “She Likes to Keep her Darkness Where She Can See it” and “Little Bird”
My first chapbook is available from Old Scratch Press!