"Brittle Stars" in Orion.

“Brittle Stars” was published in the Winter, 2020 issue of Orion. You can read (or listen to me reading it) here. This essay would not have been possible without my editor, Sumanth Prabhaker. Notable Essay in Best American Essays 2024.

Photo credit: Alvaro Esteves Migotto

“In those days, we were held by water. I came into being by an abyss. The deepest sea in the world. My parents raised me on a forty-three foot sailboat in the Southern Hemisphere. For twelve years, the world settled on us as brine and brushed our toes with kelp. Even now, when I think of touch, I think of ocean.”

New poems in Four Way Review. Feeling tired? You can listen while I read them to you.

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By some sweet coincidence, Mamie and I are in the same issue of Four Way Review.

You can read/listen to my two poems "Letter in Exchange For" and "Apology to the Narrow Moment" here and to Mamie's "Letter to Yasha in my Third Period AP Lang Class Morning after that Girl She Likes Blocked Her on Instagram" here.

I'm insanely happy to be in her company. And with deep thanks to poetry editor Ross White and the whole team at Four Way--this is a gorgeous issue all around.

'She Tells a Story' at the Cameron Art Museum!

Come see me on opening night, Thursday, July 28th, at 6:30pm at the Cameron Art Museum, where I’ll be included in the next iteration of the wildly beautiful 'She Tells a Story' exhibit. In case you've missed it, this is an ekphrastic show in which writers respond to visual art with short, literary pieces that complicate or extend interpretation. Some of my best friends--Chrissy Hennessey, Kathleen Jones, and Katie O'Reilly--and I will be adding our voices to a collection that already features powerhouses Nina DeGramont, May-lee Chai, Emily Smith, Wendy Brenner, and others. Some of the visual art, too, comes from our own, with work, for instance, by Minnie Evans and Abby Spangel Perry. Thanks to Holly Tripman for coordinating.