recent
“Dolores, Online” — originally published in Quake, print, but republished on Heartmouth, nonfiction, re: the internalization of Lolita & girlhood/tumblr trauma, June 2023.
“First Girl (to die in a horror movie)” — (fiction) March 2023.
“Death Archive” - XFic, Fall 2022 (nonfiction); see me read this piece here (starting at 34:33)
“for the friend who can’t unlatch the door yet (or: on the orange rotting in a trader joe’s tote bag)” — Fishbarrel Review, Winter 2022 (poetry)
“Roadkill” - Waxwing, Fall 2022 (fiction)
“Casting Off: A Triptych” - Diagram, July 2022
“Headlock / On Poetry” - Driftwood Press Literary Magazine, forthcoming (poetry; print)
“Love Songs for a Haunted House” (essay) — Hot Knife, November 2022
“The Night Of” (essay) — Heartmouth, September 2022
“Killing the Cool Girl” (essay) — Heartmouth, October 2022
prose — favorites
“Anatomy of a Girl-Poet” - *Sonora Review 2019 Nonfiction Prize Winner (print)
“Writing Desire”- Lithium Magazine, 2020
“Garden Song” - Entropy, May 2020
“Horror is a Love Story” — Heartmouth, May 2022
“Like a Body from the Balcony” - Voices
“The Language of Desire” - Human Parts *Best of the Net Nominated
“Why Won’t My Orchid Bloom and Other Burning Life Questions” - Human Parts
“Girls’ Fan Art Isn’t Embarrassing - It’s Radical” - Lithium Magazine
“Cleaning Out My Closet” - girl-ish
“Brutality-Gazing” - Adolescent.net
“Author Melissa Broder on The Pisces and Purpose” - Adolescent
“You on Your Best Day: Tinder, Self, and Depression” - girl-ish
“Why Feminism Needs Anger” - LA Times
“A Letter on Men, to Harry Styles” - Postscript Magazine
poetry — favorites
3 Poems / Interview / Featured Poet on Cathexis Northwest Press - Nov 2019 *Pushcart Nominated
“Mangoes” - Rookie
Adolescent + Lithium (contributing writer)
“Mitski’s Be the Cowboy: the Portrait of the Artist is a Portrait of Us”
“Sally Rooney’s Normal People: an Excavation of Modern Love”
Column: Men Explain my Sexuality to Me. “Let’s Talk Masturbation” “Not That Bad”
“Damaged Girls, or, How Putney Subverts the Lolita Trope”
“The Ballot Box is Only the Beginning”
“Room of Her Own: Von and Sexuality as Art”
“Eight Zines You Need to Read”
“Gal Pals: a Playlist for Queer Womxn”
LA Times
“Rockhaven, California’s Feminist Sanitarium: A Photo Essay”
“Nevertheless, We Persist Rally”
“A Contemplation: Healthcare and Morality”
“A Review of Lorde’s Melodrama: Uncomfortably Universal”
Channel Kindness - Born this Way Foundation
“Youth and Government: Power to the (Young) People”
“#OwnYourPride: Spreading Self-Love Through the Screen”
Everywhere Else
“Hollow Noises” - Girl Connect
“City of Stars” - Vagabond City Lit
“Cartwheels” - Seafoam Mag
“Some Women” - Everyday Fiction