POETRY PORTFOLIO
"When I write, I don't know what is going to emerge. I begin in a condition of complete unknowing, an utter nakedness of concept or goal. A word appears, another word appears, an image. It is a moving into mystery." — Jane Hirshfield
2026
forthcoming: Mood Tide Press
In Bones & Tentacles: How to Pivot When You’re Paralyzed [Debut Poetry Collection]
Lunch Ticket - Issue 29: Antioch University, Los Angeles:
“Frank O'Hara enjambs louder than jazz off a rooftop, he said jazz should not behave” and
“self-portrait as Oscar Wilde”
Santa Clara Review - Issue 113.1:
“unsolicited Advice from Eileen Myles”
Breakwater Review - Issue 39: University of Massachusetts, Boston:
¡Pa’lante! - Issue 7: Cerritos College
“Ripe Weight”
2025
Pomona Valley Review - Issue 19:
“blue note tender button” and
“fish bone underbelly of textural sensitivities”
"use heavy bottom pans to cook with residual heat"
2023
Citric Acid - An Online Orange County Literary Arts Quarterly of Imagination and Reimagination:
“mouth partially open, awaiting (ars poetica)” and
“unctuousness, until — parts #1 through #5”
2022
Crab Creek Review: Poetry Prize Semifinalist selected by Camille T. Dungy:
“bellyful, unctuousness, until — 1; 2; 3” (originally published as “unctuousness, until // i. ii. and iii”)
2021
Sinister Wisdom Journal - Issue 120: selected and interviewed by Vi Khi Nao:
“dear women who are not embarrassed when their nipples get hard in public”
2020
“hinges”
“since microwave romances have deceptive expiration dates”
“is this my grave or my mother’s womb?”
“lessons in taxidermy”
“a nesting of queer epiphanies in an invisible cat’s cradle”
2019
Hobart Pulp: “my anxiety has a baby rattlesnake in it”
“a fish rots from the head down”
“dear patron saint of unsung effigy”
2018
Berkeley Poetry Review - Issue 48:
“bones for oracle yours of found baby teeth unidentified”
“bone broth”
Permafrost - Issue 40.1: University of Alaska, Fairbanks:
“on pause, in the kitchen, mid-julienne”
2015
Visual Verse: An Anthology of Art and Words: Melbourne, AU
2013 — 2018 (Selected Publications)
AntiTHESIS - Volume 27: University of Melbourne (Australia):
“ovary picking”
RipRap Literary Journal: California State University, Long Beach:
RR Volume 39 [2017]: “two sculpins and honey jacks on the side”
RR Volume 38 [2016]: “plucking out the sutures”
RR Volume 37 [2015]: “Self-Portrait as Frank O'Hara”
RR Volume 36 [2014]: “june bug gum sole” and “unstrung tizzy”
Apogee Journal - Issue 7: Columbia's Graduate Writing Program:
“sketches during rush hour on the Chicago loop”
“open the creases of grief”
“collarbones and cognitive hazards”
“emergency exit”
Cordite Poetry Review - Australia:
Issue 87 Difficult: “forgetting as commodity”
Issue 44 GONDWANALAND: “neurosity LXXX: madness in all shapes of lavender”
Lawrence R. Smith's -CALIBAN Online
Issue 32, July 2018, pages 30-36
“bones for oracle yours or found baby teeth unidentified”
“ovary picking on pause”
“in the kitchen, mid-julienne
“bone broth”
Neurosity XXXIII “dear wet streetlights and intimate things” page 71
“of tendencies: novellust, milkheavy” page 72
“of tendencies, pin it” pages 13-14
“when light filters back in a peep hole” pages 15-16
“Something about Clarity” pages 97-98
Ante Neridiem III: dear “how-silently-the-heart-pivots-on-its-hinges” page 56
“Neurosity VIII: sketches during rush hour on the Chicago Loop” page 21
“Neurosity XI: the body’s relationship with language” pages 22-23
“inbetween the spaces of overchewed flimflam and brain peonies there is another chance” page 114
