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Creative Nonfiction
“Mouth and Foot Painting Artists in London” published by Apple in the Dark, Spring 2025.
“It’s Ungodly Cold in Kahramanmaraş” published in Burningword Literary Journal, January 2024. Nominated for Best of Net 2024.
“Dormant” published in Issue 99 of Burningword Literary Journal, July, 2021. Nominated for a 2022 Pushcart Prize.
“Warrior’s Helmet Crab” published in Volume 13 of Delmarva Review, Nov. 2020. Republished on Chestertown Spy on May 30, 2021. Read it here. Listen to my reading of this flash non-fiction piece here:
“Who Left Us Like Orphans?” published by Riot Material on May 3, 2017.
Poetry
“Four writers walk barefoot along the beach at Cape Henlopen” published in Gargoyle Magazine, Issue 12, December 2025.
“Brushwork” published by Abandoned Mine, November 2025.
“December Moon” published by Abanoned Mine, May 2025.
“Grey Sweater Dress” published by Common Ground Review, Fall/Winter 2021.
“The First Winter in a New Place“ published by TheRavensPerch, May 30, 2021.
“The Cicada Killer Wasp” published by The Ravens Perch, May 30, 2021.
“Choose Your Own Adventure: The Galapagos Mating Dance” published by Rattle, 60, Summer 2018.
“Harbor Mnemosyne” published by Panoply, Issue 5, January 2017.
Listen to my reading of “Their Wedding was in Two Weeks,“ first published in Vol. 9 of Noctua Review (Fall 2016). Do you remember those words and phrases you misheard as a child and for years called the thing by the wrong name, in a way that gave it new meaning? There’s actually a term for such a phenomenon: mondegreen. To compose this poem, I put out a call for mondegreens from Facebook friends, and then created this poem using as many as I could.
Interviews
The Power of the Persona Poem: An Interview with M. Nzadi Keita published by Broadkill Review, Sept. 2021.
Readings
My reading at the Little Patuxent Review’s launch party of Issue 38, Summer 2025
Caroline N. Simpson 