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Creative Work

  • “An Extraordinarily Condensed Encyclopedia of Botany,” ZYZZYVA, print issue 125, spring 2023. Excerpted narrative plant entries and botanical plates of pressed flowers from memoir project.
  • “A Family History of Fear,” Catapult Magazine, May 2022. Translation from the German of Margarita Iov’s lyric essay on her family’s history with Chernobyl, migration, and cancer.
  • “Plant People, An Anthology of Environmental Artists,” Plants & Poetry Journal, Fall 2021. Featuring An Extraordinarily Condensed Excerpt from Jane Marchant’s Encyclopedia of Botany. Digital publication accompanied by audio performance files.  
  • “Scrubbing Bubbles.” Facility: A Magazine about Bathrooms. Print Issue One, Summer, 2019. Poetic essay structured to imitate water droplets on tile. Issue launch performance reading at the Knockdown Center (Queens, NY), in enormous, gender-neutral bathroom.
  • “The State of the Union: A PhotoNovella of American Politics, Parts One, Two, and Three.” Columbia Journal Online, May/June 2018. Three-part reportage of Donald J. Trump’s Inauguration and subsequent Women’s Marches. Combined photographs and prose into panels to be read as a scrolling digital book.
  • “The Beginnings.” Apogee, January 2018. Lyric essay utilizing a balance of tone, research, and reiteration to tell a complex and living tale of race, gender, and family secrets.
  • “The Beiging of America: Personal Narratives about Being Mixed Race in the Twenty-First Century.” 2Leaf Press (June 2017). Anthologized “A Century of Progress.”
  • “A Century of Progress: Uncovering the story of a grandmother’s racial passing and its effect on following generations.” Guernica/A Magazine of Global Art & Politics, June 2016. Combined reportage, photographs, and archival research to build narrative.
  • “Travelers on Spaceship Earth,” Columbia Science Review, Print Issue Vol. 11, Issue 1: Fall 2015. Profile of Mike Massimino, former NASA astronaut. Seven-layered-spacesuits, repairing Hubble, and window-gazing at fishing ships off the coast of Japan.
  • “22 Photographs for Freddie Gray that Got Me Arrested,” Buzzfeed Community, May 2015. 35mm black-and-white photo essay on the march in remembrance of Freddie Gray and mass arrests by NYPD. Scanned negatives into digital narrative.
  • “A Photo Essay: Millions March NYC,” The Morningside Post, December 2014. Digital and 35mm photo essay covering the Black Lives Matter protests against failure to indict officers involved in deaths of Eric Garner and Michael Brown.
  • “The People’s Climate March,” The Morningside Post, September 2014. Photo essay on New York’s historic climate march.
  • “The Most Successful Mistake,” Columbia Daily Spectator, February 2014. An essay on my undergraduate divorce.

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Professional Work

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Exhibitions, Performances, & Readings 

  • Pyramid Scheme, Bass & Reiner Gallery, San Francisco, CA. March-June  2023. Group exhibition of superbly chaotic nature, including Husband. 4×6 inch inkjet print of scanned 35mm negative and poem, framed.
  • Artist’s Annual, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA. October 2022-January 2023. Group exhibition including How Much Is My Body Worth?. 17×22 inch inkjet print from 35mm negative.
  • Headlands Open House, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA. July 2022. Group. Open studio and performance reading from Encyclopedia of Botany. 
  • Bound: The Art of the Book, ACCI Gallery, Berkeley, CA. April 2022. Group exhibition including An Extraordinarily Condensed Micro-Encyclopedia of Botany of the San Francisco Bay Area. Excerpted bound accordion microbook with jacket. ¾ in x ½ in, printed with Epson9900 on found paper. 22 pages of prose and botanical plates legible via magnifying glass.
  • Art Omi: Writers Reading with Nuyorican Poets Café, Virtual from Ghent, NY. October 2021. Group. Performance reading from Encyclopedia of Botany.
  • “TEXT/FORM,” The Center for Book Arts, New York, NY. July 2021. Group. Virtual performance reading of Encyclopedia of Botany.
  • “Creative Publishings: An Online Exhibition,” The Center for Book Arts, New York, NY. July 2021. Group exhibition. Digital excerpt from Encyclopedia of Botany, including six plates combining prose, pressed flowers, and silver gelatin prints.
  • Columbia Selects, KGB Bar, New York, NY. December 2019. Group. Performance reading from Encyclopedia of Botany.
  • Facility Launch, Knockdown Center, Queens, NY. November 2019. Group. Performance reading from “Scrubbing Bubbles” in an enormous, gender-neutral bathroom with exhibits in stalls.
  • OUR WORD Reading, Columbia University, New York, NY. May 2017. Group. Performance reading of “The Beginnings.”
  • Gallery Reading, Columbia University, New York, NY. April 2016. Group. Performance reading of “A Century of Progress.”
  • Visual Arts Undergraduate Exhibition, Columbia University. December 2014. After 3-months independent summer travel through Jordan, Lebanon, and Türkiye, curated narrative exhibition of seventeen 11x14in mounted silver gelatin prints.
  • Visual Arts Undergraduate Exhibition, Columbia University. May 2014. Two 11x14in mounted silver gelatin prints from “The Life Domestic” series.
  • Check, Postcrypt Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY. October, 2014. Group exhibition on global democracy. Inclusion of mounted print “Erdoğan’s Musical Bus,” alongside reported prose on 2014 Turkish Presidential elections.

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