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poems et cetera

w/ gratitude

poems

  • "Passageway," "Hands are Not Poetry in Motion," "Wishful," "excuse me, but if you could." UCity Review, EIC Andrew Cox, June 2023.

  • "Fails to Understand Requirements," Practicing Anthropology, Winter Issue. Ed. Lisa Jane Hardy. Dec. 2022.

  • "Our Relationship Traveling Backwards in Time." Issue 7, Nov. 2022.​ Cerasus Magazine. Associate Editor John Wilks.

  • "eclipse" & "to the white woman in line at the grocery store."

    • finalists for 2022 Founders' Prize, RHINO Poetry, Oct. 2022.

  • "Two Weeks’ Notice," Pilgrimage Press, EIC Juan Morales, June 2022.

  • "Built in Protection," "The Unlucky Wife," "Even If I'm not the Golden Child." The McNeese Review, April 2022. EIC Jack Vanchiere. 

  • "Because the Netting Protects," Eclectica Magazine. July 2022, Poetry Ed. Evan Martin Richards.

  • "what's not visible," Red Ogre Review, EIC Matthew Bullen. July 2022.

  • "When Authorities say “Be Aware of Your Surroundings,” SWWIM Every Day, August 2021. Eds. Jen Karetnick, Catherine Esposito Prescott, Caridad Moro-Gronlier & Alexandra Lytton Regalado

    • Nominated Best of the Net 2022

creative non-fiction

  • "Run the Numbers," cnf. The Palisades Review, Founding Editor Mea Cohen, 31 Jan. 2023

  • "Of Wetlands."No Tokens. EIC T Kira Māhealani Madden; NF Eds. Danielle Batalion Ola & Hannah Mulligan, Dec. 1, 2022.

  • "Blue Space." Porter House Review, Jan. 2022. Nonfiction Ed. SG Huerta; Ex Eds. Doug Dorst & Tom Grimes. 

flash fiction

  • "Girl as a Found Shell on the Beach," National Flash Fiction Day. Jun 13, 2026.

  • "Where We Grew Up " & "The Body Remembers," January House Literary Journal, Jan. 2025, EIC Jeffrey Heath.

  • "To Win the Game," Peatsmoke Journal, Fiction Ed. Wendy Elizabeth Wallace, Spring 2023.

    • Nominated Best of the Net Fictions 2024​

  • "For Richer," Wigleaf. EIC Scott Garson, Feb. 12, 2023.

  • "Captivity," Roi Fainéant. EIC François Bereaud & Margot Stillings, Jan 8, 2023.

  • "Little Deaths in the Kitchen," The Ilanot Review. Fiction Editors Nadia Jacobson & Mitch Ginsburg, and Guest Editor, Gary Fincke. Fall 2022. 

    • Nominated Best Small Fictions 2023

  • "Mother Warns Us of Men," SmokeLong Quarterly, Sept. 2022. Ed. Christopher Allen. Micro Winner Competition.

    • Winner Smokelong Quarter Summer Workshop Pop Quiz June 2022
  • "Between the Lines," National Flash Fiction Day Write In. June 2023.

    • Nominated Best Small Fictions, 2024.​

    • Nominated Pushcart Prize 2024.

  • "Foreign Objects," The Hennepin Review, June 2022, EIC Halil Isler. 

    • Nominated Best of the Net 2023

    • Nominated Pushcart Prize 2023

  • "More Than an Acquired Taste." Flash Frog. May 2022, EIC Eric Scot Tryon.

    • finalist in The Blue Frog Flash Fiction Prize

    • Nominated Pushcart Prize 2023

  • Maximum Allowance." No Contact Mag, May 2022, EICs Gauraa & Elliot. 

    • Honorable Mention CRAFT Creative Non-Fiction Award 2021

  • "Because Isamu means 'Courage.'" Red Fez. April 2022. EIC Doc Sigerson.

2021

Selected Pieces

  • "53 Minutes: Cliff's Beach, Oahu, Hawai`i." Scrawl Place. Nov. 2021, EIC Andy Brown.

  • "Thursday Night at Lucky's Liquor Store," Winner Fractured Lit. Flash Fiction Anthology 2021, EIC Tommy Dean. Judge Kathy Fisher.

  • ​​"Here there are no water Buffalo," Wigleaf Long List 2022. Flash Boulevard. Aug. 2021. Ed. Francine Witte.

  • "We, Too, Landed on Mars." Special Feature: Teaching During the Pandemic. Olney Magazine, May 2021. EIC Brandon Noel. Nominated Best of the Net 2021.

  • "For the Record." Agapanthus Collective Biannual Publication. Feb. 2021, EIC Junpei Tarashi. Nominated for Best of the Net 2021.

  • "Arrhythmia."MORIA Literary Magazine. Nov. 2020, Gavin Arechiga, Social Media and Demographics Editor. Winner Best Microfiction 2021. Judge Amber Sparks. 

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