Interview In Grist

I had the pleasure of talking with poet Katie Manning about her chapbook, A Door With A Voice, and she grilled me some about The Birth Creatures. Grist was awesome enough to publish the interview, which you can read here. Katie and I are press-mates over at Agape Editions, which means you can read both our chaps there for free!

This Just In: I'm Going To Be A Hyacinth Girl!

You guys have some pop culture goodness to look forward to from me next year. My poetry chapbook, Playing One on TV, has been selected for publication by Hyacinth Girl Press in 2017!

This book started out as a NaPoWriMo project, four years ago. A fun, lighthearted project turned into a manuscript with deeper feminist explorations of girlhood, womanhood, and race. HGP is the perfect press to publish it, not to mention one of my favorite chapbook publishers. I can't wait to see it in print and share it with you all.

First Pushcart Nom!

Received a nice surprise this week that the lovely folks at Posit nominated my poem, "A Spill on the Grid," for a Pushcart Prize. I'm especially excited to see one of my "Malala poems" get this honor. In case you missed it, you can read the poem here.

Poems In Public Pool And Forthcoming Story

I recently had a couple of pop culture poems go up at Public Pool that you can read here. The first one, "Angela Chase Weather Report," is from my chapbook, PLAYING ONE ON TV, about iconic female television characters.

I'm also super excited to have a flash story called "Copy Machine" forthcoming in the next issue of The Conium Review alongside some fabulous writers, including one of my favorites, Shane Jones. Check out the full contributor list here.

Short Story in Meridian

Once upon a time, I had a dream I opened a chapbook store with Jeff Goldblum. I wrote a poem about it (obviously), which turned into a short story, which Meridian chose to publish in their latest issue. They have a free epub version available on their site, in addition to physical copies for sale.

This is my favorite story I've written, and I couldn't be more thrilled that such a great journal loved it as much as I do.

Gigantic Sequins 7.1 Available

Issue 7.1 is available to order here, and it's gorgeous.

This team consistently puts out not just great work, but one of the best looking journals around, and I'm so grateful I get to be part of their staff.

Poems And Interview At The The Poetry Blog

Fox Foley (who published my e-chap, The Birth Creatures) has been doing a great poetry Spotlight Series, this year, over at The The Poetry Blog, and I'm excited she chose to feature my work at her Infoxicated Corner. I have three new poems up about various bags I've owned (yes, one of them is a Jansport backpack, obviously) that you can check out here. I also did an interview and talked about my influences, creative process, and generally felt like an imposter poet, as per usual. :p