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Fiction

I write about how people navigate power dynamics in their families and communities, and deal with gender performance and expectations. I’m interested in people who are reckoning with their history, and the impact that has on the community around them. My writing is both social realist and fabulist; I'm working on how to navigate a fusion of those two worlds.

PUBLICATIONS

Some Things That Happen When You Have the Strength

of Ten Men

December 2021

A short story about siblings, gender, and different kinds of strength.

Published in Augur Issue 4.2

The Explosions are Magnificent

March 2021

A short story about first loves, hometowns, and knowing when to leave.

Published in Home is Where You Queer Your Heart Anthology, Foglifter Press

Hardened

March 2019

A short story about turning a fall from grace into an opportunity for power.

Published in Emerge: 2018 Lambda Fellows Anthology, Lambda Literary

This is How You Love

a Coyote

February 2019

Flash fiction about two strangers who meet at a bonfire.

The Knicknackery

PROGRAMS, FELLOWSHIPS & READINGS

AWP Writer to Writer Mentorship

March - May 2020

Worked with John Elizabeth Stintzi on my short story collection, and completed a series of six modules on craft.

AWP Conference Panelist

March 2020

Presented the panel “Lambda Literary Fellows on Transnational and Intersectional Queer Fiction” in which I and the other panelists discussed what forms queerness can take in fiction. I also read from a short story in progress.

Nomadic Press "Get Lit"

July 2019

Read from “Ghost Town,” a short story in progress.

Nomadic Press "Get Lit"

October 2018

Read from “Some Things That Happen When You Have the Strength of Ten Men,” a short story in progress.

Lambda Literary Fellow

August 2018

Worked with cohort and workshop leader Chinelo Okparanta on short stories, and read from my work at public reading.

I read a selection from "Hardened" at the Lambda Literary Retreat.

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