Publications

Contrapuntal for the Queer Kids Who Lived / Reed Magazine Issue 159/ 2026

We’ll All Be Dead Before Then / Button Poetry / 2023

Nobody Stopped Us / Best of Button Poetry / December 2023

The Loneliest Whale / Best of Button Poetry / December 2022

A Cocoon, A Tomb (Wet Clay Performance Art) / Macalester Today / July 2021

Floating Home, or ‘First Honest Poem About Jean’ / Chanter Magazine / Fall 2021

Elyssa peering out of a clay cocoon

A Cocoon, A Tomb

“…We poured out our drinks, laughing

when Heather’s blackberry lemonade

turned blood red in the water, mixing

with the ashes. And Dad poured out his IPA,

said, Goodbye, Thumper. Goodbye,

Jean. I’m sorry

it took so long

to send you home…”