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Prose

2025
  • "The Procedure" in Cold Signal
  • "Gentle" in Lost Balloon
  • "In my dreams, Man didn’t hunt the Nittany lion extinct" in BULL

2024
  • "Did all sabretooth tigers go to heaven?" in Moss Puppy Magazine
  • "Imagine a Chill Breeze" in Folklore Review
  • "All I wanted was the $9 coconut water" in New World Writing Quarterly (selected in scaffold's top 50 micro writings of 2024)
  • "Rust Belt Headline" in The Dodge
  • "Papers Called it an F4" in Bending Genres

2023
  • "Of Locks and Keys" in Spry Literary Journal 
  • "Now, We'll Hold Her Forever" in 100 Word Story
  • "Relevé" in The Meadowlark Review
  • "The Toes Know" in Twin Pies Literary
  • "Visions of Hollister" in the Lose Yourself: I <3 the Aughties anthology with ELJ Editions, Ltd. 
  • "Ass-Building Material" in hex
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2022
  • "I'm Not The One" in The Final Girl Bulletin Board
  • "Even at the Quiz Bowl Championships, I Can’t Stop Thinking of Us" in (mac)ro(mic)
  • "Rubbed Raw" in Schuylkill Valley Journal Online Dispatches
  • "The Fishmonger" in The Molotov Cocktail (Second Place, Flash Feast Contest)
  • "Some Birds" in Fatal Flaw
  • "Elevator Music" in Roi Fainéant Press
  • "Fundamentals of Apocalypse Dentistry" in hex (nominated for the Best Microfiction 2023 anthology)
  • "Lachrymatory Child" in Ellipsis Zine, Twelve: Wade
  • "Breakup Scripts for the Unenthralled Thrall" in Hearth & Coffin Literary Journal
  • "Screaming Ourselves Horse" in Bending Genres
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2021
  • "Rust Belt Triptych" in The Lumiere Review (selected for the Best Microfiction 2022 anthology)
  • "How it Feels to Be a Ghost Girl" in The Hallowzine
  • "Reader Beware… Before Bedtime if You Dare!" in the It Came From Beneath the Ink! anthology with ELJ Editions, Ltd.
  • "Pearly Whites" in Flash Flood Journal

Poetry

2024
  • "Steel" and "Nuked" in Anti-Heroin Chic
  • "we’re both just here for the zipline" in JAKE

2023
  • "closed, so close" in The Daily Drunk's It Was Never a Phase: A Pop Punk Anthology

2022
  • "Giant Eagle" in Rejection Letters
  • "Pals and Confidants" in the Stay Golden zine with The Daily Drunk
  • "BESURETODRINKYOUR" in HAD
  • "Three Prose Poems after Thomas Wilfred’s Lumia" in The Ekphrastic Review
  • "The ghost of Frances visits 2022 Helen in a dream" in FERAL: A Journal of Poetry and Art
  • "Pierogi vs. Presidents" in Words & Sports Quarterly
  • "Iron" in Whale Road Review

Collaborations/Hybrid Work

2022
  • "Of Spuds and Stamens" in HAD, with Rachel Schechtman

Columns & Articles

Tempting Tomes, Sultry Scaries with The Final Girl Bulletin Board
  • ​A Review of Payback's a Witch by Lana Harper
  • A Review of The Pisces by Melissa Broder
  • A Review of Book of Night by Holly Black
  • A Spooky Season Detour of Beloved Books
  • A Review of Reprieve by James Han Mattson
  • A Review of Fleeing Fate by Sabrina Day
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