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Poetry

"My Partner Bathes Me When I Am A Body Too Broken." Crab Orchard Review. Forthcoming.

"In America, I Can’t Access My Medical Records Because My Insurance Company Declares Bankruptcy," "In America, I Can’t Talk to a Real Human at My Health Insurance Company But I Am Eligible to Win a Free Medical Alert Device," "In America, I’m Denied Medical Care Because My Insurance Company Will Only Treat One Part of the Body at a Time," and "In America, I Pay as Much to Be Disabled Each Year as the Down Payment for a House." Terrain. Forthcoming.

"Sea Change." The Fourth River. Forthcoming.

"Brine." Ghost City Review. Forthcoming.

"Chronic Pain as Aquarium." Identity Theory. Forthcoming.

"Sever" and "Lure." Glassworks. Forthcoming.

"Chronic Pain as Archipelago." The Indianapolis Review. Forthcoming.

"When I am Diagnosed, an Absent Family Member Reappears to Ask if My Disability is Genetic." Laurel Review. Forthcoming.

"Diagnosis as Iceberg" and "Riptide." Jabberwock Review. Forthcoming.

"A Male Doctor Says Maybe My Pain Is My Period." The Pinch. Forthcoming.

"Scrimshaw." Permafrost. Forthcoming.​

"Seawall." South Dakota Review. Forthcoming.

"Exoskeleton." The New Territory. Forthcoming.

"Diagnosis as Horizon," "Child’s Play," and "Pearl." Pithead Chapel. August 2024.

"My Husband Goes with Me to Doctors so They Will Believe My Pain is Real" and "A Doctor Says He Understands Women Can Be Fussy Because He Has Daughters." South Florida Poetry Journal. August 2024.

"Recovery" and "A Doctor Says I'm Too Young for My Body to Be This Old." Tinderbox. June 2024.

"Diagnosis as Fishing Net." The Shore. June 2024.

"Prognosis" and "When the Pain Meds Wear Off." DIALOGIST. June 2024.

"Wading." Heavy Feather Review. May 2024.

"Chronic Pain as Tide Pool." Lumina. Vol. 20. Spring 2024.

"Fathom" and "Chronic Pain as Porthole." Diode. Vol 17, No. 1. Spring 2024.​

"Grief Fed." Salamander. Vol. 57. Winter 2024.​

"Taxidermy." Okay Donkey. August 2023.​

"Pomegranate." Valparaiso Review. May 2023.

"Overwinter." The Fourth River. April 2023.

"The Sun Will Burn Brightest Just Before Its Collapse." Pigeonholes. April 2023.

"Suture." The Journal. Vol. 42, No. 2. Spring 2023.

"Landscape" and "Glassblower." Glassworks. March 2023.

"My Father Tells the Story." Autofocus. February 2023.

"Celestus Memorius" and "Pith." Diode. December 2022.

"Swift." The Fourth River. October 2022.

"Shadowbox." Dialogist. September 09, 2022.

"Zinnias." Los Angeles Review. June 2022.

"To the Wasp Caught Between the Window and the Screen." Zone 3. Vol. 37, Spring 2022.

"Infestation." Birdfeast. March 28, 2022.

"Wetlands." The Indianapolis Review. February 1, 2022.

"Careless" and "Taking Plan B in a Pandemic." Diode. November 29, 2021.

"Ghost Town." Split Lip Review. October, 2021.

"Wish, Bone." HAD. October, 2021.

"Hard Water." Briar Cliff Review. Vol. 33, Spring 2021.

"Cartwheel." Hobart. May 10, 2021.

"Pigeon, Dear." The Pinch. Vol. 41.1, Spring 2021.

"Hermit Crab Struggles to Move House." The Fourth River. March 25, 2021.

"Refinish” and “The Incredible Shrinking Woman." JuxtaProse. Winter 2020.

"Ordering In." Diode. Volume 13, Number 3. November 2020.

"Offerings" Rewilding: Poems for the Environment. Flexible Press, 2020.

"Bite Your Tongue" and "Light as a Feather." ELM. Forthcoming.

"Glutton." Glass: A Journal of Poetry. April 2018.

"Goodbye Yellow Brick Road." Weber: The Contemporary West. Vol. 34, No. 2, Spring/Summer 2018.

"Outspoken." LUMINA. Vol. XVII, 2018.

"White Witch as a Young Girl" and "Bones Beneath Your Bed." Sweet. Vol. 10, Issue 2, January 2018.

"Glutton," "Taking Tongues," and "Outspoken." Feckless Cunt: A Feminist Anthology. World Split Open Press, 2018.

"How to Make a Drum" Undead: A Poetry Anthology of Ghouls, Ghosts, and More. Apex Book Company, 2018.

"The Situation." Cimarron Review. Issues 199/200/201, Spring/Summer/Fall 2017.

"Colonize." Nimrod. Vol. 60, No. 2, Spring/Summer 2017.

"Detritus" and "A List of What's Been Abandoned." Zone 3. Vol. 32, No. 1, Spring 2017.

"What the Body Knows" and "Time Travel." The Normal School. Vol. Ten, Issue One, Spring 2017.

"How to Make a Drum." Permafrost. Vol. 39, Issue 1, Winter 2017.

"Cashing In." Briar Cliff Review. Vol. 29, 2017.

"Bird Watching." Quiddity. Vol. X, 2017.

"How to Make Lye Soap." New South. Vol. 10, Issue 1, 2017.

"Doctor’s Orders" and "Resting." The Fem. January 11, 2017.

"How to Survive a Lightning Strike" and "Walking Beans." Rock and Sling. 2016.

"Washing Up." New Plains Review. Fall 2016.

"Scenting," "Prairie Fever," "Cleaning Up." The New Territory. Issue 03, 2016.

"Sunday in the Museum." EarthLines. Issue 16, November 2016.

"Tornado at the Dig Site." Valparaiso Poetry Review. November 19, 2016.

"Fried Starfish." Hawaii Pacific Review. November 15, 2016.

"The Monk Smuggles a Mirror." Indianola Review. June 28, 2016.

"Catching Diamonds," "Drowning," and "Family Heirlooms." New Madrid. Vol. XI, Number 2, Summer 2016.

"The Talking Cure." r.kv.r.y Quarterly Literary Journal. May 2016.

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"Offerings." Natural Bridge. No. 25, Spring 2016.

"Grass Roots" and "Excluded." Terrain. February 28, 2016.

"The Lake." Moon City Review. 2016.

"Pioneer" and "Altar." Manifest West: Serenity and Severity. Western Press Books, 2016.

"(Un)Sinkable." Circe's Lament: Anthology of Wild Women Poetry. Accents Publishing, 2016.

"Quicksand, Missouri." Briar Cliff Review. Vol. 27, 2015.

"A Day for Elm." North Dakota Quarterly. Vol. 80.2, Summer 2015.

"Bloom" and "Life Size." Arroyo Literary Review. Vol 7, Spring 2015.

"Daisy Comes to Tea." Great Gatsby Anthology. Silver Birch Press, 2015.

"After Electric" and "After Electric II." Blood and Thunder: Musings on the Art of Medicine. Fall 2014.

"Murmuration." Canary. Issue 26, Fall 2014.

"Taste Testing." Alimentum. August 2014.

"Talking Back." Poecology. Issue Four, 2014.

"Listening for Birds In Spring." New Plains Review. Spring 2014.

"The Astronaut Takes a Wormhole." Fifth Wednesday. Vol. 14, Spring 2014.

"Engulf." Animal. March 2014.

"Love Story." WomenArts Quarterly. Spring 2014.

"Where the West Begins." Fourth River. Vol. 11, Spring 2014.

"Seeing, Choices." Canary. Vol. 24, Spring 2014.

"The Astronaut Kisses Saturn." Harpur Palate. Vol. 13.2, Winter/Spring 2014.

"Remembrance," "Shadow Man," and "Great Gran." Shadowed: Unheard Voices Anthology. The Press at California State University, Fresno, 2014.

"Losing Ground" and "A Surviving Letter from the Hindenbuerg." [Ex]tinguished and [Ex]tinct: an Anthology of Things that No Longer [Ex]ist. Twelve Winters Press, 2014.

"Staring Me Down." The Quotable. Vol. 11, Fall 2013.

"Scar." Ruminate. Vol. 28, Fall 2013.

"Leaving Tracks." Midwestern Gothic. Vol. 10, Summer 2013.

"Rachel Carson Comes to Dinner." Confrontation. Vol. 113, Spring 2013.

"Time Traveling." Georgetown Review. Vol. 14.1, Spring 2013.

"Firefly." Fourteen Hills. Vol. 19.1, 2013.

"The Astronaut and Red." Slipstream. Vol. 33, 2013.

"Red Skull Bug." Thema. Vol. 24.3, Fall 2012.

"A Wild Thing." New Plains Review. Vol. 12.2, Spring 2012.

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