A reflective and emotionally grounded narrative that explores queer family building through reciprocal IVF, centering choice, partnership, and the meaning of being wanted.

A thoughtful poem about trans becoming, where Orion serves as both symbol and shorthand for masculinity, recognition, and self-authorship.

A reflective narrative that traces the five stages of grief through an unexpected connection, exploring how one woman’s steadiness dismantled old ideas about love, chaos, and survival.

A stark, introspective essay that uses Berlin’s winter landscape and history as a mirror for memory, restraint, and the quiet, necessary work of becoming yourself.

A tender, whimsical essay written as an open letter to my future wife, turning domestic quirks, emotional candor, and everyday longing into a blueprint for lasting love.

Part confession, part self-drag, part queer excavation, this essay traces a late lesbian awakening through memory, shame, humor, and the signs that refused to stay buried.

A loud, glittering coming-out poem about West Hollywood, bad decisions, good lighting, and becoming too much in exactly the right way.

A Catholic-school rage poem for every weird girl who got called disruptive when she was really just early.
*Based on my real life expulsion from St. Peter’s RC School in Lewiston, NY

Written in the tradition of George Ella Lyon’s “I Am From,” this poem assembles a self from rosaries, winter, food, nursing, and inheritance, tracing the sacred and bruised geography of a life.