Writing
As a writer, I gravitate towards speculative fiction that engages in some way with belief systems and how they shape our reality. I have also occasionally published poetry and essays. Hover over titles — most are links!
In the village, lessons in Spidercraft were the children’s sacred duty. So, even in the grip of the Sickness, they showed up for Silk-knotting and Weaving, Lassoing and Climbing, Jumping and Reflexes, Patience and Trap-laying, Arachnomancy and Spiderlore.
Poetry
- Selections from "Past Oral," Stay Salty: Life in the Garden State, Oct 2021
- "Spire" - America Magazine, December 2019
- "A Tree at Riamede Farm" - Verdad Magazine, Fall 2017
- “The Demolition of Greystone,” and “Beechnut” - Exit 13 Magazine, Spring 2017.
- “Moving the Rock” - U.S. 1 Worksheets, 2017.
- “Making Kindling” - The Lyric, Fall 2016.
- “The Merest Mask of Gloom,” and “Metric Expansion” - The Road Not Taken, Spring 2016.
Wondering as I walk which rocks are gneiss / and which are not, I see a beechnut on / the ground, halved, two-chambered like / a shotgun, and it fires on me twice
Headcanon is a safe place to indulge in denial. To take into our hands a wonderful but broken world, and hold the mess to our heart and patch it up.