POETRY PORTFOLIO

Selected publications since 2008 in journals including FENCE, Berkeley Poetry Review, Hobart Pulp, Lunch Ticket, Santa Clara Review, Cordite Poetry Review, 3:AM Magazine, Sinister Wisdom, and Caliban.

2026

• forthcoming: FENCE - Issue 44:

  • "Unsolicited Advice from Josephine Baker" and

  • "Unsolicited Advice from Tracy Chapman."

• Moon Tide Press

  • In Bones & Tentacles: How to Pivot When You’re Paralyzed [Debut Poetry Collection: Order Here].

• Citric Acid Issue 18 - Semiquincentennial: Orange County literary arts quarterly featuring writing from and about the region.

  • Book Review of Orange County Poet Laureate Gustavo Hernandez's BACHELOR.

  • Three poems from the debut collection In Bones & Tentacles: How to Pivot When You're Paralyzed (Moon Tide Press).

    • LISTEN: "Brotman Hall, 2nd Floor, Counseling & Psychological Services Window Faces the Metal Dandelion Molecule," from Part Four of In Bones & Tentacles, "emptiness as an anecdote of clarity." Narrated by Scotty Escobar.

• Breakwater Review - Issue 39: University of Massachusetts, Boston:

  • “Godzilla Sings ABBA in the Ruins of Tokyo: Mamma Mia! Here We Glow Again”

  • Nominated for Best New Poets

• 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: The California Edition, University of Santa Clara

  • “Unsolicited Advice from Eileen Myles”

• forthcoming: Alocasia - Issue 21: a journal of queer plant-based writing

  • "i am as stubborn as the milk-blue patience of oyster mushrooms pushing through damp leaf-rot overnight"

  • "what if guilt is a greenhouse"

• forthcoming: BEESTUNG (2027): a quarterly micro-magazine of non-binary writers that’s sweet and stings

  • "two custodial workers fell in love beside the jellyfish tank"

• forthcoming: ¡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”

• Trampoline - Issue #29.6:

  • "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

• PoetHead - Ireland:

  • “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”

• Berkeley Poetry Review:

  • Midterm: Localities & Haunts [Chapbook]

• San Diego Reader:

  • “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, Australia

  • 12 poems published in international art–literature anthology
    

2013 — 2018 (Selected Publications)

• AntiTHESIS - Volume 27: University of Melbourne (Australia):

  • “ovary picking”

• RipRap Literary Journal: California State University, Long Beach:

  • RipR ap Volume 39 [2017]: “two sculpins and honey jacks on the side”

  • RipRap Volume 38 [2016]: “plucking out the sutures”

  • RipRap Volume 37 [2015]: “Self-Portrait as Frank O'Hara”

  • RipRap Volume 36 [2014]: “june bug gum sole” and “unstrung tizzy”

  • RipRap Volume 33 [2011]: “NightHawks;" "when you need your coffee black;" "I'm Listening to Strange Fruit."

  • RipRap Volume 30 [2008]: “Flor de Muerto," “memento mori: birthday cake & beer”

• Apogee Journal - Issue 7: Columbia's Graduate Writing Program:

  • “sketches during rush hour on the Chicago loop”

  • “open the creases of grief”

• 3:AM Magazine:

  • “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”

  • Issue 23, April 2016

    • Neurosity XXXIII “dear wet streetlights and intimate things” page 71

    • “of tendencies: novellust, milkheavy” page 72

  • Issue 21, October 2015

    • “of tendencies, pin it” pages 13-14

    • “when light filters back in a peep hole” pages 15-16

  • Issue 18, February 2015

    • “Something about Clarity” pages 97-98

  • Issue 15, April 2014

    • Ante Neridiem III: dear “how-silently-the-heart-pivots-on-its-hinges” page 56

  • Issue 14, January 2014

    • “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