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"As a teacher," Teach. Write. (Forthcoming, 2025)

"Teaching during 2023's 17th active shooter drill," Teach. Write. (Forthcoming, 2025)

​"The Cloud," Flyway: Journal of Writing and Environment (Forthcoming, 2025)

"Wave-Particle Duality," Kestrel Review (Forthcoming, 2025)

 

"To the AP highschoolers in my undergraduate English class" Kestrel Review (Forthcoming, 2025)

“Mural: Seattle,” Sequestrum (Forthcoming, 2025)


“Key West, 2024,” Sequestrum (Forthcoming, 2025)

"Metaphors for a waxing crescent" Qu (Forthcoming Spring, 2025)

"Praying in Reverse," Sky Island Journal (Spring, 2025)

 

"A coastline thinks aloud in 2024," South 85 Journal (Spring/Summer, 2025)Nominated for Editor's Prize Long List

"Charms of the Anthropocene," Eastern Iowa Review (March, 2025)

"Grief, AKA," Euonia (March, 2025)

"Her Centennial," The New Verse News (March, 2025)

 

“The Clocks Inside Me,” Potomac Review (Spring, 2025)

 

"Acclimating in Key West," Wordpeace (Forthcoming Winter, 2025)

 

“Parrot fish eulogy,” Hawaii Pacific Review (Fall, 2024)


“A Different Sort of Yellow,” Flying Island (November, 2024)

 
“Holes” Sky Island Journal (Fall, 2024)

“The Infinity Between Zero and One,” Sky Island Journal (Fall, 2024) 

Nominated for a 2024 Pushcart Prize

“Key West, Forthcoming,” Allium (Fall, 2024)

"To the baby chicks at the bird sanctuary" About Place (Fall, 2024)

A Golf Course Thinks Out Loud” Pinch (Fall, 2024)

“Solving Fermi’s Paradox” Naugatuck Review (Fall, 2024)

Nominated for a 2024 Pushcart Prize


"Bastian" + 2 others, Literary Veganism, (August, 2024)

"Grief Monologue" Biscuit Hill (Fall, 2024)

"Elephants" Biscuit Hill (Fall,2024)

“Snorkeling, 2024” Rust & Moth (Autumn, 2024)


“Mural: Three Years in Key West” Burningword Literary Journal (July, 2024)
“Mural: St. Croix” Burningword Literary Journal (July, 2024)


“Bull Shark Scuba Dive” Canary Lit Magazine (July, 2024)


“A River Thinks Out Loud” Neologism (July2024)


“Eurasian Magpies” + 2 others, Literary Veganism (Spring, 2024)


“Metaphors for a Rollercoaster” DMQ Review (Winter, 2024)

Nominated for a 2024 Pushcart Prize

“Scuba and Grief” The McNeese Review (Winter, 2024)


“Sacredness Ends a Sestina” Route 7 Review (Fall, 2023)


“Running, Gestalt” Neologian (Summer, 2018)

“A Sort of Purple” Neologian (Winter, 2018)

“First Race”+ 3 others, Hoosier Lit (Spring, 2017


“It is Spring and I am 17” Apt (March, 2016)


“Janyiah” Wisconsin Review (Fall, 2015)

“Cusp” Wisconsin Review (Fall, 2015)

“1:27 P.M., July 5th, 2014” Women Arts Quarterly Journal (Volume 5, Issue 3)


“Summer, 1995” Emerge Literary Journal (Winter, 2014)

“Wormhole” Bird’s Thumb Journal (Summer, 2014)

“On Visual Rhetoric” Practical Composition (Spring, 2014)

“The Body’s Want-Language” The Mom-Egg (Spring, 2013)


“A Sort of Green” Cobalt Review (March, 2013)

“In Michigan, My Father” Cobalt Review (March, 2013)

“Jabreya’s Words,” Lunch Ticket (Antioch University Literary Journal) (December, 2012)


“A Sort of Pink,” Heavy Feather (December, 2012)

“A Dead Bird in Daycare” [NAP] (December, 2012)

“A Sort of Blue,” Ilk (October, 2012)

“A Sort of Yellow,” Ilk (October, 2012)

“A Shade of Black,” Monarch Review (August, 2012)


“In the Nursery,” The Foundling Review (Fall, 2012)

“Collecting Mothers,” Arsenic Lobster (Fall, 2012)

Nominated for a 2012 Pushcart Prize

“The Organ of Mother-Want,” Arsenic Lobster (Spring, 2012)


“Making a Mom,” Columbia Poetry Review (Spring, 2012)

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