Fiction
“The Girls of Cottage Grove,” Evergreen Review, Summer 2024. The girls of Cottage Grove are precocious, pretty, and products of their parents’ miscegenation. They are Betty and Wanda, in the brief weeks they’re both eight, and they think they’re too grown to play with their little brother, a lanky six-year-old fixated on the twin knobs of his Philco radio. The year is 1941 and the girls like Dorothy’s ruby-red shoes and Clark Gable’s mustache.
“The Moth,” Kweli Journal, Spring 2024. A wildly speculative story about Genie Hill and her disobeyed warnings and moth flies.
Creative Nonfiction
“The State of the Union: A PhotoNovella of American Politics,” Columbia Journal Online, originally published from May to June 2018 and republished in November 2024. Three-part reportage of Donald Trump’s Inauguration and subsequent Women’s Marches. Combined photographs and prose into panels to be read as a scrolling digital book.
“The End of the Ends,” Columbia Journal, print issue 61, Summer 2023, and online. A travel essay on Jordan and Lebanon. Intwined visual narrative of 35mm black-and-white photographs.
“An Extraordinarily Condensed Encyclopedia of Botany,” ZYZZYVA, print issue 125, spring 2023. Excerpted narrative plant entries and pressed flower plates 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.
“Scrubbing Bubbles.” Facility: A Magazine about Bathrooms. Print Issue One, Summer, 2019. Essay structured to imitate water droplets on tile. Issue launch performance reading at the Knockdown Center (Queens, NY), in enormous, gender-neutral bathroom.
“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.
“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.
Professional Literary Work
“In Conversation with Aineki Traverso,” Burnaway, November 2024. Interview with painter Aineki Traverso on painting from an image archive, the physical selves around onself, and the idea of the lens.
“The Journey to Cloud Cuckoo Land with Anthony Doerr,” The PEN Pod, podcast, November 2021. Interview with Pulitzer Prize winner Doerr about his writing journey, structuring his latest novel, and writing from a child’s perspective.
“Writing as Medicine with Sandra Cisneros and Jane Marchant,” The PEN Pod, podcast, February 2021. Interview with MacArthur “Genius” Cisneros on defining literary excellence.
“Inside Grants and Fellowships,” Gotham Writers’ Inside Writing Podcast. Season Three, Episode Ten, May 13, 2021. Panel discussion on how writers can prepare for applications processes.
Exhibitions, Performances, & Readings
ZYZZYVA, print issue 125 celebration and reading at the Booksmith, San Francisco. May 2023.
Pyramid Scheme, Bass & Reiner Gallery, San Francisco, CA. March-June 2023. Group exhibition of superbly chaotic nature, including Husband. 4×6 inch framed print.
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. Excerpted bound accordion microbook with jacket. 22 pages of prose and botanical plates legible via magnifying glass. ¾ in x ½ in.
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. Excerpt from Encyclopedia of Botany, including six plates combining prose, pressed flowers, and silver gelatin prints. Accompanied by virtual performance reading of Encyclopedia of Botany.
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.
