“I promise I’m not trying to die,” I tell my therapist, and she nods. We both know I’m lying.

Essay Published in The Rumpus: Voices on Addiction

Rumpus Original Art by Dimitry Samarov

Ahmed drives to the airport outside Paris. Enchantée Jasmin. He smiles, talks with his hands of his childhood home in Algeria.

Poem Published in Parenthesis Journal

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.

Poem Published in River Mouth Review

2021 Sundress Publications’ Best of the Net Poetry Nominee

2020 Pushcart Prize Poetry Nominee

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.

Poem Published in West Trestle Review

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.

Poem Published in Sinking City Review

TRIGGER WARNING: REPEATED MENTIONS OF SEXUAL ASSAULT, INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE, PREGNANCY LOSS.

Poem Published in West Trestle Review

Sundress Publications’ 2021 Poetry Broadside Contest Finalist

TRIGGER WARNING: REPEATED MENTIONS OF SEXUAL VIOLENCE, ABUSE, GASLIGHTING.

Poem Published in Kissing Dynamite

Come to Light Feature with Commentary

"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

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.

Poem Published in Sinking City Review

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.

Poem Originally Published in Ink & Nebula