Featured publications
Featured Essays
“Not a Failure: Shifting Language,” CreakyJoints, December 2023
“My Migraine Diagnosis,” Healthline, July 2023.
“Dropping the Ball: The Art of Juggling Life with Chronic Illness,” CreakyJoints, April 2023.
“On a Scale of One to Ten: Trying to Measure the Unmeasurable,” CreakyJoints, September 2022.
“Rediscovering Passion: A Writer’s Journey with Disability,” Success (print and online), May 2022.
**for a complete list of publications, please view my CV**
Featured Poetry
“Praise the Breath,” and “Elegy for the Living,” The Marbled Sigh, 2024.
“Desert Night,” We’Moon Planner (print), 2024.
“Lobster,” Ink and Marrow, September 2023.
“bone stars” A Body You Talk To: An Anthology of Contemporary Disability, 2023.
“Seizure Dream,” Ekphrastic Review, August 2022.
“Caring For Your Angie,” How to Heal a Bloodline: A Mental Health Analogy (print), 2022.
“This is Just to Say” and “Bathtime Ritual for the Slow Transformation into a Mermaid,” Gingerbread Ritual Literary Journal, January 2022
“Heels,” Closet Cases: Queers on What We Wear (print), 2020.
“Generations,” “To My Little Gender Bender” and “School Board Meeting…,” Queering Sexual Violence (print), 2016.
**for a complete list of publications, please see my CV**
Select Presentations and Readings
“Under Our Skin: Breaking Barriers and Building Community Through Creativity,” FatCon, 2024.
guest poet, Valid Literary Arts, 2023.
“I Am Not a Battlefield: Metaphors and Medicine,” Power of Words Conference, 2023.
guest poet, TellTale Presents, 2023.
guest poet, Fall in Love with Lents, 2023.
guest poet, Incite: Queer Readers Write, 2022.
“Narrative of the Body: Reconnecting to Our Selves Through Poetry,” Power of Words Conference, 2022.
“This Is Who I Am: Using Creativity to Let Your Identity Shine,” GLSEN Conference, 2022
“Silent No Longer,” Lower Elwha Tribal Community Event, 2014.
guest poet, Reading for Hunger Relief, 2011-2013.
Featured In
“A Kitchen Table Discussion on Transformative Language Arts…,” Teaching Transformation, 2017.
“Women’s Self-Leadership Through Transformative Narratives,” Transformative Language Arts in Action, 2015.
