Selected work

Books

(forthcoming) Cosmic Tantrum (Curbstone Books, 2025). Full-length poetry collection on masks, monsters, mirrors, economies of shame, how our most intimate relationships shape the way we move through the wider world, and what happens when we reject the stories we’ve inherited about our worth.

Chapbooks

Autocorrect Suggests “Tithe” (Ghost City Press, 2021). Digital micro-chap exploring poems as meditations and trances, Baba Yaga, hacking into the mainframe, and repurposed public domain images about consciousness and the cosmos.

Inevitable What (Sad Spell Press, 2016). A chapbook of poems flirting with witchery, travel, iambic pentameter, and saudade. Featuring gorgeous watercolor illustrations by artist Sirin Thada. Review at Vagabond City / Review at Alien Mouth. The second edition is available at Bookshop or an order through your favorite indie bookstore.

Edited books

Best Debut Short Stories 2023: The PEN America Dau Prize (Catapult, 2023). Co-edited with Summer Farah. Winning stories judged by Venita Blackburn, Richard Chiem, and Dantiel W. Moniz.

Best Debut Short Stories 2022: The PEN America Dau Prize (Catapult, 2022). Co-edited with Yuka Igarashi. Winning stories judged by Emily Nemens, Deesha Philyaw, and Sabrina Orah Mark. Intro excerpted here.

Best Debut Short Stories 2021: The PEN America Dau Prize (Catapult, 2021). Co-edited with Yuka Igarashi. Winning stories judged by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Kali Fajardo-Anstine, and Beth Piatote.

Prose

• “Hero Worship Leads to Cults: An Interview with Brad Neely” — interview at X-R-A-Y

• “Silicon Valley of Heart’s Delight: All This Used to Be Orchards” — essay in word west revue, vol. 1

• “Splits, Doubles, Masks, and Decoys: On ‘Life Is Everywhere’” — review/essay on Lucy Ives’s novel, at The Millions

• “The Story and the Truth: Elaine Hsieh Chou’s Disorientation” — review at The Rumpus

• “You’re in Good Virtual Hands: On ASMR, Anxiety, Relaxation in the Side-Hustle Economy, and Being Baby” — Internet as Intimacy column #1 at Catapult

• “Podcasts and Tarot Reading Showed Me How to Be Real Instead of ‘Good’” — Internet as Intimacy column #2

• “When the Internet Still Felt like a Place, I Went There to Forget about My Body” — Internet as Intimacy column #3

Poetry

• “Baby Island” — ZYZZYVA

• “I Could Signal Dominance in Email Correspondence as Trained but the Concept Is Offensive and I’m Baby” — Hobart

• “APPLICANT MUST HAVE” and “LOCAL BEAST, KIND OF A LITTLE BITCH ACTUALLY” — HAD (Hobart After Dark)

• “Self-Anthropology,” “Golden Child Tantrum,” “Please answer to the best of your ability,” “The Content is Supposed to Burst from the Container,” “Exhibition: What Is It Like to Make Something That Matters?” — Dream Pop

• “Pot-Bound” — Trampset

• “Guided Meditation with Dead Musician,” “Guided Meditation with Mean Voice,” “Guided Meditation with Inner Child,” and “Guided Meditation with Gramps” — Yes Poetry

• “Guided Meditation with Inner Mother” — Grimoire

• "The Empress" and "Poem about My Uterus" — FORTH magazine

• "she apologized" and "like little lambs" — erasure poems at Dream Pop

• “Drones” — Pushcart-nominated poem at DMQ Review

• On the Road erasures — blackout poems at Potluck Mag

• “Rat Race” — 3Elements Review

Anthologies

Erase the Patriarchy: An Anthology of Erasure Poetry (University of Hell Press, 2020). Edited by Isobel O’Hare. I erased Phyllis Schlafly’s 1972 speech “What’s Wrong with Equal Rights for Women?” in blood, resulting in two poems: “Of all the classes of people who ever lived” and “THE FINANCIAL BENEFITS OF CHIVALRY.”

These Poems Are Not What They Seem (APEP Publications, 2020). Edited by Kristin Garth and Justin Karcher. An anthology of poetry inspired by the cult television show Twin Peaks. My poem, “The Orchid’s Curse,” is inspired by Harold the orchid guy, and Donna’s antics.

They Said: A Multi-Genre Anthology of Contemporary Collaborative Writing (Black Lawrence Press, 2018). Collection of collaborative writing, wherein each piece was written by at least two living writers and is accompanied by a statement on how the authors approached collaborating. Includes "This is not my beautiful hell," a poem that Isobel O'Hare and I wrote together.

Vine Leaves Literary Journal: A Collection of Vignettes from Across the Globe (Vine Leaves Press, 2017). The final issue of Vine Leaves Literary Journal (#19), compiled as a thick coffee-table book filled with art, photography, and short prose and poetry works. Includes my short fiction vignette, "Cosmologies."

Awards

• 2019 St. Lawrence Book Award Poetry Finalist

• 2018 finalist for Dream Pop Press chapbook contest

• 2016 Pushcart nomination for “Drones”

• 2016 Best of the Net nomination for “Drones”

• 2014 Academy of American Poets Virginia de Araujo Prize for “Rat Race,” selected by Santa Clara County Poet Laureate David Perez

James D. Phelan Literary Awards

• First place in Metrical Verse under Thirty Lines for “The Somnambulist,” 2014

• First place in Familiar Essay for “California Wild Rose,” 2013

• Second place in Metrical Verse under Thirty Lines for “Breathe,” 2013

• Second place in Free Verse over Thirty Lines for “Cups,” 2013