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Creative
publications

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"Instructions for How to Survive a Nuke," "I Want to be Catlike," & "Baby Train"

Inspiration to Action: A Tribute to Jill Eichhorn

Forthcoming

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"Dream About a Giant Me-Obsessed Octopus"

Rappahannock Review, 11.1

December 2023. Web.

 

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"It All Comes Out in the Wash"

Coffin Bell Journal, 6.2

April 2023. Web

 

 

"After the Fire"

30 Poets, 30 Poems: Clarksville Anthology

2020. Print

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"Grandma’s Hero was Hopalong Cassady"

True Chili 

December 2019. Web.

 

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"Last Words"

The Heartland Review.

Fall 2019. Print.

 

 

"A Guilt Trap has Many Teeth"

The Heartland Review.

Fall 2019. Print.

 

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"At a Party, John Wayne Gacy puts his Arm Around me

and Says We've all been there Before"

Republished in Trailer Park Quarterly.

October 2019. Web.

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"This is How You're Dealing"

Abyss & Apex, 72

October 2019. Web.

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"Tidal"

Red Flag Poetry

Postcard Art Project, September 2019. Print.

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"Found on or Near Jack Parson's Body, Post Blast"

Alternating Current

April 2019. Print.

 

 

"When the Bank Says my Account was Drained"

Pub House Books

January 2019. Print.

 

 

"Assigned Buddies"

Rogue Agent Journal, 41

August 2018. Web.

 

 

"Trying to Reason with the Baby I Never Plan to Have"

 Crooked Teeth Literary Magazine, 2/Winter in the City

February 2018. Web.

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"A Millennial's Unwritten Odes to her Many Terrible Jobs"

Poetry: A Wild Word Anthology

January 2018. Print.

 

 

"Thoughts I Don't Share while Out to Dinner with a New Guy"

Poetry: A Wild Word Anthology

January 2018. Print

 

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"RuPaul and I Break Up with my Boyfriend"

FreezeRay, 14

November 2017. Web.

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"Fish Love"

The Mantle, 2

November 2017. Web.

*Pushcart Prize Nomination*

*Bettering American Poetry Nomination*

*Best of the Net Nomination*

 

 

"Their Destroyed Mouths"

Rockvale Review, 1

November 2017. Web.

 

 

"Body Worship Takes Work"

Rascal Journal, 1

September 2017. Web.

 

 

"Before Coined America’s First Serial Killer, H. H. Holmes Steals

a Cadaver for our Date"

Dying Dahlia Review, Summer 2017

June 2017. eBook.

 

 

"A Millennial's Unwritten Odes to her Many Terrible Jobs"

The Wild Word Magazine, FILTH issue

June 2017. Web.

 

 

"Thoughts I Don't Share while Out to Dinner with a New Guy"

The Wild Word Magazine, FILTH issue

June 2017. Web.

 

 

"Indigo"

Northern New England Review, 37

June 2017. Print.

 

 

"The Grim Sleeper Takes me Hiking Before his Execution"

Helios Quarterly, 2.1

Mar. 2017. Print & eBook.

 

 

"I Put her Back Under my Floor"

Door is a Jar Magazine, 4

Apr. 2017. eBook.

 

 

"Grip"

Peacock Journal

Feb. 2017. Web.
 

 

"Truth or Consequences, Spa City"
Peacock Journal 

Feb. 2017. Web.

 

 

"Lies I Told My Younger Brother"
The Indie Folk Music Review 
Oct. 2016. eBook.

 

 

"Six Tips Before Your Date with a Serial Killer"

The Indie Folk Music Review 
Oct. 2016. eBook.

 

 

"Fragments of a False Elegy"

The Indie Folk Music Review 

Oct. 2016. eBook.

 

 

"When my Mom Convinces me that Period Blood is Sacred"

Wicked Banshee Press

Oct. 2016. Web. (shuttered)

 

"On Leaving the Green River Killer"

Dying Dahlia Review, Winter 2017

Dec. 2016. eBook. (shuttered)

 

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 "Sunday Morning Slasher Dies on a Friday, My Letter Doesn't Arrive til Monday"

Thick With Conviction

Sept. 2016. Web.

 

 

"Someone Sets me up with Charles Manson"

Fourth & Sycamore

Oct. 2016. Web.
 

 

"The French Ripper Takes me to a Hot Dog Stand"

Fourth & Sycamore
Oct. 2016. Web.

 

 

"Jeffrey Dahmer Invites me to a Dinner Party"

Fourth & Sycamore

Oct. 2016. Web.

 

 

"Interviewing Mercy"

Fourth & Sycamore

Oct. 2016. Web.

 

 

"Eating Mercy"

The Cape Rock: Poetry, 44.1/44.2 

Mar. 2017. Print.

 

 

"We Normally Avoid Scotty's House"

Fourth & Sycamore

Oct. 2016. Web.

 

 

"The Angel Makers and I Try to Bake a Cake."

Words Dance

Aug. 2016. Web. (shuttered)

 

 

"House."

Sonic Boom Journal

Aug. 2016. Web.

 

 

"Anthropology of a Bar Scene."

Adanna Literary Journal, 6

Sept. 2016. Print.

 


"Pack"
Inklette Magazine, 3
Aug. 2016. Web.

*Pushcart Prize Nomination*
 

 

"Bucket List

Caravel Literary Arts Journal, 2

July 2016. Web.

 

 

"Breaking Up with Your Yard Gnome"

Unrequited: An Anthology of Love Poems

about Inanimate Objects 

May 2016. Print. 

 

 

"Specimen

The Borfski Press, 1

Nov. 2016. Print.

 

"Learning to Drive with My Lover, Who May Also Be

My Mortal Enemy"

Silver Birch Press 

Apr. 2016. Web. 

 

 

"Maternal's Rules for Riding a Train

InkStain Press, 1.0 

Apr. 2016. Web. (shuttered)

 

 

"Taking it Back."

The Best of Kindness Anthology 

Apr. 2016. Origami Poems Project. Print.

 

 

"Double Dream."

Strangelet Journal, 2.1 

Jan. 2016. Strangelet Press. Print. 

 

 

"Inter."

The Lake Poetry 

Dec. 2015. Web.

 

 

"Pair Bonds."

The Lake Poetry 

Nov. 2015. Web.

 

 

"At a Party, John Wayne Gacy Puts His Arm Around Me

and Says We've All Been There Before."

491 Magazine 

Summer/Fall 2015. Print.

 

 

"Losing Weight"

The Adirondack Review 

Fall 2015. Web. (archived)

 

 

"Naked"

Poetry Quarterly, 22 

Summer 2015. Prolific Press. Print.

 

 

"Why We Aren't Animals"

Gingerbread House Literary Magazine, 11 

Feb. 2015. Web.

 

 

"Skin"

Lonely Whale Memoir: An Anthology 

Feb. 2015. Chatsworth Press.  Print.

 

 

"Cigan"

The Underground Literary Journal, 14 

Apr. 2014. Print.

 

 

"My first date rolled his r's"

The Underground Literary Journal, 14 

Apr. 2014. Print.

 

 

"Exits"

Dual Coast Magazine, 1 

Apr. 2014. Prolific Press. Print.

 

 

"Dressing this Morning"

Euphony Journal  

Aug. 2013. Web.

 

 

"River Bed

BlazeVOX 2kX 

Spring 2010. Web.

 

 

"Father's Garden"

BlazeVOX 2kX 

Spring 2010. Web.

 

 

"Happy Endings."

BlazeVOX 2kX 

Spring 2010. Web.

 

 

"Survivor"

Red Mud Review 

Spring 2009. Print.

 

 

"So, Everything"

Young Writers Literary Journal 

Winter 2008. Print.

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