STORIES
Longleaf Review: "The Kudzu Eaters," 2020
"In the old days, we burned the bodies of fossils to keep warm. We loved roads so much, we drove them until we turned the rivers to oil and rock salt."
"In the old days, we burned the bodies of fossils to keep warm. We loved roads so much, we drove them until we turned the rivers to oil and rock salt."
Okay Donkey: "The Jackalope in Economy Class," 2020
"The jackalope fantasized that she and Nessie would hit it off. They probably had a lot of things in common besides being cryptids."
"The jackalope fantasized that she and Nessie would hit it off. They probably had a lot of things in common besides being cryptids."
Malasaña: "Wendy the Fire-Eater," 2020
"The carnival lights scattered rainbows in Wendy’s black hair, and her tattooed skin smelled like paraffin fuel."
"The carnival lights scattered rainbows in Wendy’s black hair, and her tattooed skin smelled like paraffin fuel."
Juked: "The Mimosa Tree," 2020
"The woman said, I wish I would have a child as dark as the night and as bright as the moon, and she was so weary that she lay down and fell asleep right there, her cheek pressed against the grass, her arms wrapped around herself as the moon and stars kept watch."
Fourteen Hills: "The Wonder Wheel," 2019
“Since his surgery, Dad remembered numbers, historical facts, the name of my prom date, where he and Mom went on vacation in 1979, but he couldn't remember anything that had happened in the last year.”
Jellyfish Review: "The Gospel According to Heather's LiveJournal," 2019
"And it came to pass in the year 1999, that there went out a decree from the National Retail Association that all the world should do their Christmas and Hanukkah and Kwanzaa shopping."
"And it came to pass in the year 1999, that there went out a decree from the National Retail Association that all the world should do their Christmas and Hanukkah and Kwanzaa shopping."
CHEAP POP: "Convenience Store Prayer," 2019
“And lo, my neon lamps will burn as bright as rubies. They will burn 24/7/365. I am the refuge of all exiles, welcoming you with doors that swing open at your touch.”
Fiction Southeast: "Carve This Flesh From Off My Bones," 2019
“Memory is all we have left—our crops withered, our goats long dead, the village surrounded by a desert like an open mouth.”
Soaring Penguin Press: "Heliox," published in the comics anthology Meanwhile vol. 9, 2018
"The bottom of the ocean is basically another galaxy. No one knows how big giant squids can get, or where whale sharks have their babies."
Hobart: "The Red Crown," 2015
“Once, all foxes were silver. The queen of the foxes had a coat that shone like the trees after an ice storm.”
ESSAYS
Closet Cases: Queers On What We Wear: "Firecracker," Et Alia Press, 2020
"When I couldn’t disappear, I tried instead to sparkle as brightly as possible, to become so visible that my glamor and eccentricity were a shield."
The New York Times: "A Funeral for Two Birds," 2019
"The summer I turned 11, we buried two wild birds and we did not bury my great-grandmother. We did not bury my great-grandmother because she had donated her body to science."
Catapult: "A Heathen's Love Affair With Churches," 2019
“The first time I sneaked into a bell tower, I was fourteen years old.”
Hippocampus: "The Broken Bird," 2019
“On the day you kissed me for the first time, a sparrow ate from my hand in the green respite of Central Park.”
BUST: "How an Anti-Choice Clinic Bullied and Lied to Me," 2017
“The woman drew a sketch on a piece of paper that looked like a giant grapefruit spoon, and she claimed this was one of the instruments that an abortionist would use to cut the baby out of me.”
Audubon: News Reporting and Writing, 2015-2017
News articles included how baby puffins' diets are changing amid warming oceans, a school growing a native prairie in Minnesota, vineyards in the Pacific Northwest enlisting barn owls for rodent control, and a chalk art flash mob to help young herons and egrets falling from trees in Oakland.
POEMS
The Offing: "Seven Ways To Be Sick," 2019
"I am spinning on a carousel tied to the back of a wooden horse with its teeth maniacally bared.
I am falling through the heart of a dying star."
I am falling through the heart of a dying star."
HUMOR
The Belladonna: "20 Love Songs That Are Truly Terrifying Once You Know Their Original Title," 2019
"I Only Have Eyes For You (Sorry, I Was in a Rush and That's All I Could Get at the Morgue)"