Selected Poems / Short Prose

• The Shade Journal: “Precipice”

• Foglifter Journal: “In Which My Speaker Would Say Their Name Without Fear” & “dysphoria; or, self as improvisation”

• wildness: “vanishing point”

• Southern Humanities Review: “Ars Poetica: Lyric by River I Am Always Running Toward”

• ANMLY: “preliminary notes for an essay whose conclusion still feels out of reach” & “in response to being told to take up more space”

• Gigantic Sequins: “Still Life; or, For Moments I Hold One Hand in My Other” (nominated for a Pushcart Prize)

• The Journal: “In Which I Try to Make More Gentle My Revolt Against My Own Smallness” & “Contrapuntal Sestina in Which I Refuse to Perform the Disappearing Act” (nominated for Best of the Net)

• Waxwing: “Because Aren’t We All Just Learning to Feel Loved,” “in which my body is not disastrous,” & “In Want of Crossing”

• REMAKE: “twenty-first century ghazal in which i am afraid to say [       ]” (finalist for the 2022 Editors’ Award)

• Tinderbox Poetry Journal: “Contrapuntal Ghazal After Birth and Before Resurrection” & “Field Notes on Living, Perpetually, on the Brink of Tragedy” (finalist for the Majda Gama Editors’ and Brett Elizabeth Jenkins Prizes)

• The West Review: “Triple Sonnet for Leaving My Country of Birth” (nominated for a Pushcart Prize)

• Ghost City Review: “JFK International Airport: August 2019”

• Hominum Journal: “The Box” & “Tuscan Nocturne”

• FERAL: A Journal of Poetry and Art: “An Adoptee’s Attempt at Autobiography” (nominated for a Pushcart Prize)

• The Ekphrastic Review: “Walk Within the Garden As If It Were a Garden”