Writer, Poet, Community Builder
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Publications

 

Publications

Prose

My Neighbor’s Red Shoes. Wigleaf, November 2020. Selected for the Best Small Fictions 2021 anthology.

Tongue-Tied: A Catalog of Losses. Fireside Magazine, January 2019. Nominated for the IGNYTE Award for Best in Creative Nonfiction.

Topographia. Winter Tangerine, 2018. 

Those We FeedFireside Magazine, January 2018.

Lineage.  Bayou Magazine, May 2017.  Nominated for the Pushcart Prize.  
Reprinted in Psychopomp Magazine, April 2019.

To Escape The Witch's House. Liminal Stories, October 2016. 

Why Do I Write Fiction?  ARTHouston Magazine, February 2016.

While I WaitFantastic Stories of the Imagination, January 2016.

Ward.  Crab Fat Magazine, November 2015. 

Waste of Space. Flash Fiction Magazine, October 2015. 

Midgut RockThe Molotov Cocktail Magazine, July 2015. Reprinted in the magazine's Prize Winners Anthology.

 

Poetry

Spider EyesJuked, June 2018.

The Scratch Inside Your ChestStrange Horizons‘ Arab League Community Special Issue , October 2017. Nominated for the Rhysling Award, 2018.  

Two Half Hitches, part of The Santa Monica Prophecies, a collaborative triptych with Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam and Holly Lyn Walrath. Mithila Review, April 2017. 

Propagation. Strange Horizons, April 2016.  Nominated for the Rhysling Award; reprinted in the 2017 Rhysling Anthology

 

Other Writing

Dear Wigleaf. Wigleaf, November 2020.

Immigrant Experiences in Fiction and Real Life: A Roundtable Discussion. Fireside Magazine, January 2018.

Taking the Lid off Tidy Packages: Next Iteration Theater Company’s First Production Promises Risk and Reward. Arts + Culture TX, February 2016. 

Prepared with Love and Passion: Inside the Studio of Jewelry Designer Nichole Dittman. ARTHouston, August 2016. Pages 32-34. 

To Reach Beyond the Usual: An Intimate Look at Bonnie Jo StuffleBeam's Art & Words Collaborative Show. ARTHouston, February 2017. Pages 38-40.