PUBLICATIONS
Rumpus original art by Dimitry Samarov
from “I’m Not Eating”
“I promise I’m not trying to die,” I tell my therapist, and she nods. We both know I’m lying.
Published in The Rumpus: Voices on Addiction
Poetry Publications
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from “4 a.m. in an Uber at the End of July”
Ahmed drives to the airport outside Paris. Enchantée Jasmin. He smiles, talks with his hands of his childhood home in Algeria.
Published in Parenthesis Journal
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from “Open Arms and Orcas”
One year since an orca was seen carrying her calf through the waves, three more whales are declared dead after months missing from the Salish Sea.
Published in River Mouth Review
2021 Sundress Publications’ Best of the Net Poetry Nominee
2020 Pushcart Prize Poetry Nominee
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from “During the Storm”
Sunday afternoon, my mentor and I walk through the nature in her neighborhood. It drizzles. A hurricane heads our way. Tired trees waver in the wind. I do too.
Published in West Trestle Review
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from "Oil Spills and Orcas"
Scatter white lilies in the water to save the Salish orcas. Southern resident killer whales battle big business boats,
as Trans Mountain Expansion engines emit a frequency masking orca communication among mates.
Published in Sinking City Review
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“Dr. Christine Blasey Ford Testified on my GRE Test Day”
TRIGGER WARNING: REPEATED MENTIONS OF SEXUAL ASSAULT, INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE, PREGNANCY LOSS.
Published in West Trestle Review
Sundress Publications’ 2021 Poetry Broadside Contest Finalist
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"For Nice Guys Who Pick Flowers"
TRIGGER WARNING: REPEATED MENTIONS OF SEXUAL VIOLENCE, ABUSE, GASLIGHTING.
Published in Kissing Dynamite
Come to Light Feature with Commentary
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Three Poems
"Black Women Wombs"
"Freshwater Pearls"
"At the Beach with Belle"
TRIGGER WARNING: REPEATED MENTIONS OF SEXUAL ASSAULT, INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE, PREGNANCY LOSS.
Published in Honey & Lime Literary Magazine
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from "Flower Petals and Ant Piles"
I’m standing in an ant pile. I didn’t realize I planted my roots here. Sometimes, it’s hard to really feel the hurt until after a few bites.
Published in Sinking City Review
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from "Beach Body"
If my body is the beach’s sand, she can’t count how many waves have come. She keeps checking the tide for tally marks, as if they’ve kept track of each touch.
Originally Published in Ink & Nebula
“Grief isn’t rough or gentle like waves, it’s heavy like wet sand. I tell myself I’ve made peace with the rocks and minerals, but really, I just keep trying to bury them as if the sand won’t swim away when floating in water.”
— EXCERPT FROM PUSHCART PRIZE NOMINATED POEM, OPEN ARMS AND ORCAS
Print Anthologies & Journals
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The Elpis Pages: A Collective
Issue One: Winter 2021
This print only collective includes three poems: “Brown Roses,” “Mountains, Mustard Seeds, and Marigolds” and “Martini Glass Memoirs.”
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Pages Penned in Pandemic: A Collective
Issue One: Winter 2020
This print only collective includes my poem, “Ocean and Orca.”
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Parentheses Journal
Issue 10: Fall 2020
This issue is available online and in print with my poem, “4 a.m. in an Uber at the End of July.”
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Honey & Lime Literary Magazine
Issue Four: August 2019
This print issue includes, “Black Women Wombs,” “Freshwater Pearls” and “At the Beach with Belle.”