Recent Work
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The month before my stepfather, Vaughn, goes into a skilled nursing facility for progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP), my ex-boyfriend gets a ghost praying mantis and names him Pimento. Nickname PB.
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Winner of The Erotic Contest, Sonora Review, November 2024
In 6th grade, a small group of boys started carrying around little, red laser beams on keyless keyrings. They were small enough to fit in the palm of the boys’ hands.
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Bodega, November 2024
In 2021, I moved back to North Carolina from New Mexico. I was starting an MFA, and my stepfather was dying.
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The Los Angeles Review, November 2024
A friend told me she’d never been in love. The friend is a dance friend, a woman in her 40s, divorced, and currently in a long-term relationship.
“I think the closest thing to being in love I’ve ever felt is when I’m dancing,” she told me.
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Another Chicago Magazine, February 2024
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Hunger Mountain, February 2024
When I was seven, my dad moved back to Wilkes County from Budapest and decided that I would be a tennis champion. My parents divorced when I was less than a year old and my father moved away when I was a toddler.
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Epiphany, April 2023
It’s Friendsgiving and I’m sitting on Tiffany’s porch when she pulls her pant leg up and says, “You see these? They are everywhere. All over me.”
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During the COVID-19 lockdown, I was trying to write my way into something like a consistent creative practice when I started pole dancing. I lived in a two-room casita in downtown Albuquerque, a fenced in yard full of dirt…
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Awards & Honors
BUOYANCY: A BODY IN SPACE (Essay Collection), Semi-Finalist: 2025 River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Book Prize; 2025 Deborah Tall Lyric Essay Book Prize (Seneca Review); 2025 Hudson Prize (Black Lawrence Press)
“When Women Walked on Land,” Second Place Finalist, The Masters Review Winter Short Story Award (2025-2026)
“Men Smoking,” Winner, Sonora Review’’sThe Erotic Contest (2024); Finalist, Fourth Genre’s Steinberg Memorial Essay Contest; Men Smoking”, Finalist, Terry Tempest Williams Creative Nonfiction Award
“I Molt With You,” Finalist, Sewanee Review’s Seventh Annual Nonfiction Contest (2024; 2025)
“The Weight of Water,” Finalist, Tucson Festival of Books Literary Awards (Nonfiction)
The Gravitron, Miami Book Fair’s Emerging Writer Fellowship, Honorable Mention
“Mr Fisher”, Finalist, Epiphany’s 2024 Breakout Prize (Prose); Finalist, Tucson Festival of Books Literary Awards (Nonfiction)
“Footwork”, Finalist, Sewanee Review’s Sixth Annual Nonfiction Contest