Recent Work
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On the eighteenth anniversary of her mother’s release, Alice works an overnight shift at Kroger’s. It’s hard for her to explain, even to herself, why she keeps the Kroger’s shift, but it feels good to be efficient in something which does not have to do with her body. Continue reading
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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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In March of 2025, my stepfather gets on hospice, and I get on Feeld. Feeld’s supposed to be for kinky people. I don’t really know if I’m kinky. Continue reading
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A chapbook series oriented around the periodic table of elements. Learn more
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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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Another Chicago Magazine, February 2024
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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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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…
https://mastersreview.com/writers-on-not-writing-sid-sido-and-emily-mathis/
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