selected publications

Poetry & Prose

“Dear Speaker of the Poem.” The Journal. Forthcoming.

“Willoughby Cemetery.” Hayden’s Ferry Review. Forthcoming.

“Pope Cemetery.” Mississippi Review. Forthcoming.

“Art Nouveau Revival.” DIAGRAM. Forthcoming.

“Hollywood Forever Cemetery.” Four Way Review. 2025.

“Boothill Graveyard” & “Boyden Cemetery.” Plume Poetry. 2025.

“New Grace Hill Cemetery” & “Rices Hill Cemetery.” Diode Poetry Journal. 2025.

“Reformation Era.” RHINO Poetry. 2025.

Dear Girls,” “O Sister,” “Swamp Stories,” “Dear Speaker of the Poem,” “The Man Who Grew Trees From His Skin,” “Insider Knowledge.”Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies. 2025.

Predatory Insects.” Muzzle Magazine. 2024.

“Monster of the Week: Baptism” & “Monster of the Week: Resurrection.” The Quarter(ly). 2024.

The Cologne Cathedral’s Stained Glass Windows Advertise Commerz Bank.” DIAGRAM. 2024.

Leftover Women.” The Maine Review. 2024.

“Mass Bouquet.” Palette Poetry. 2024.

A poem in which I can’t find a suitable metaphor.Nimrod International Journal. 2023.

“A Half-Step From Salvation.” Southeast Review. 2023.

“Rhythmic Chant” & “Manufactured by Machine.” Colorado Review. 2023.

“Die Welt” & “Liebe Mädchen.” Translated into German by Alexandra Bernhardt. Signaturen-Magazin. 2023.

“Folk Horror.” Arkansas International. 2023.

“Strange women say I’ll change my mind” & “Monster of the Week: Piecemeal Appliqué.” Seneca Review. 2023.

“A Fleshiness, A Bleeding Tongue.” Pleiades. 2023.

Ode to All the Fictional Dead Women Named Barbara.Copper Nickel. 2022.

“Crepe Myrtles & All Those Other Blooming Trees.” Phoebe. 2022.

“Southern Gothic County Dispatch,” “The World,” “Every Octopus Is A Planet,” “Dear Girls,” & “Oceanography & Other Marital Bloodsports.” Action Books Blog. 2022.

weather submarine peach structure.” Gulf Coast. 2022.

horrid fruit” & “You.” Southern Indiana Review. 2021.

“Let Us Have Our Own Suffering.” Southeast Review. 2021.

“rendering fat” & “saltblood: contaminated zone.” The Pinch Journal. 2021.

“a collection of old wives’ tales that live on your body” & “omission of the tongue.” Crazyhorse. 2021.

“Ode to Women’s Arms in SF Television.” Strange Horizons. 2021.

“awaiting the evolution of a body melted to silver.” Sonora Review. 2021.

“the bones on the museum floor behind the do not cross tape.” the minnesota review. 2021.

“Dear Monster.” THRUSH Poetry Journal. 2021.

“the bone wars.” Fairy Tale Review. 2021.

“Cromniomancy.” Notre Dame Review. 2020.

“Two Truths and a Lie.” Birdfeast. 2020.

“the animatronic model has a broken metatarsal.” Passages North. 2020.

Translations

“Flanders” by Alexandra Bernhardt, translated from the German. Denver Quarterly. 2024.

Four poems by Alexandra Bernhardt, translated from the German.” Action Books Blog. 2023.

Reviews

“Her demolished body”: Mothers & Daughters in Lara Glenum’s Snow. Seneca Review. 2025.

Navigating Fear, Crafting Counterpoints, and Generating Place: A Conversation with Anna Journey.The Georgia Review. 2022.

Indigeneity in the Anthropocene: Ancestral Demon of a Grieving Bride by Sy Hoahwah. Transmotion: An Online Journal of Indigenous Studies. 2021.

Interview: Erin Elizabeth Smith. Action Books. 2021.

Interview: Catherine Pierce. Action Books. 2020.

Review: Danger Days by Catherine Pierce. Action Books. 2020.

Review: Sense Violence by Helena Boberg. Action Books. 2020.

Review: Death Industrial Complex by Candice Wuehle. The Rumpus. 2020.

Review: You & Me Forever by Valerie Hsiung. Action Books. 2020.

Review: Good Bones by Maggie Smith. Pleiades. 2017.

Peer-Reviewed Articles & Book Chapters

“‘they fall into the arms of the devil’: Grotesque Women in Southern Gothic Poetry.” Poetry and the Gothic, edited by Samantha Landau, Li-Hsin Hsu, and Thomas Leonard D. Shaw. Forthcoming.

“Monster Theory in the Composition Classroom.” Creatures in the Classroom: Teaching Environmental Creature Features, edited by Bridgitte Barclay and Christy Tidwell. Forthcoming.

“Resisting Filiation and Gentrification by Reconfiguring Epic History: Rhizomatic Origins and Futures in Zora Neale Hurston’s Mules and Men.” Amerikastudien, American Studies: America and Ownership 326, edited by Gesa Mackenthun and Nikita Vasyltsov. 2025.

“Creating Possible Alternatives: Gender & Identity in Post/Apocalyptic Television.” Science Fiction Film and Television 17.1. 2024.

The Sin of Reproducing: Intersectional Marginalization in N.K. Jemisin’s The Fifth Season.” Extrapolation 63.3. December 2022.