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POETRY


​ANTHOLOGIES


"Theories on Wreckage" | Trigger Warning: An Anthology on Mental Health (ed. Jean-Marie Bub, forthcoming)

"Putain" and "Tension" | RECLAIM: An Anthology of Women's Poetry (ed. Elizabeth Ruth Deyro, 2019). Print

"Reclamation, Two Years Later" | The Anatomy of Desire: An Anthology of Distance (ed. Shekinah Vera-Cruz, 2018). Print

​"Tiger Blood" | Shared Horizons: A Rambutan Literary Anthology (ed. Do Nguyen Mai, Rambutan Literary, 2018). Print​ 

SELECTED POEMS

"
Dissection
" | Parentheses Journal, 2020

"Our City's Children" ​| The Tiger Moth Review, 2020

"Heaven to You" | mineral lit mag, 2020

"Body as Car-Struck Deer" | Cosmonauts Avenue, 2020

​"I Still Haven't Listened to Blonde All the Way Through" | What Are Birds Journal, 2019

"On Political(ized) Life" | Glass Poetry's POETS RESIST Feature, 2019

"In Hushed Voices, the Women in My Family Speak About a Woman Who Left Her Husband for Another Woman" | Ghost City Review, 2019

"After, He Tells Me To Get Up" | Glass: A Journal of Poetry, 2019

"Sable" | Cotton Xenomorph, 2019  - Nominated for Best of the Net 2019​​

"Grief, Carrying" | Rust + Moth, 2018. Print - ​Nominated for the 2019 Pushcart Prize ​

"He Says 'I Miss How You Taste' and I Text Back 'I Know'" and "I Dreamt the Ocean Was My Mother" | Crab Fat Magazine, 2018

"#000000" | OCCULUM, 2018

"Year of the Pig" and "Long Beach, 1992" | Longleaf Review, 2018

"Confessions of A Biracial Woman", "Epitaph for Burning Palm Trees, Los Angeles 2016," and "Expectant" | Hypertrophic Literary, 2018. Print - "Epitaph for Burning Palm Trees, Los Angeles 2016" nominated for the 2019 Pushcart Prize 

"I Used to Live in the Stomach of America" | Indolent Books' WHAT ROUGH BEAST Feature, 2018

"Family Portrait as Intergenerational Trauma" | The Ellis Review, 2017

"Hot Mess" | Vagabond City Literary Journal, 2017 - Nominated for the 2018 Pushcart Prize 

"Skin Reel" | Ricepaper Magazine, 2017
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"Birth City" | Bombus Press, 2017 - Nominated for the 2018 Pushcart Prize
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