Poetry
“Spring Surprises” in SLANT
“A Crown of Orchids” in Cerasus Magazine
“You Can’t Fit a Sponge in a Ribcage” in Hot Springs Poetry Festival Zine
“Miss Smith” and “Gratitude for Grading” in Teach. Write.
“Lover’s Mine” in Micromance Magazine
“Growing up RAW” in Superfan Wrestling Zine #2
“What I Can’t Teach” in Porcupine
“Affectionate Artillery” in Ink and Marrow
“Aubade with a Mockingbird Witness” in dipity. – Nominated for the 2026 Pushcart Prize
“The Bleeding Box” in Soul Poetry, Prose, & Art Magazine
“Blackwork” in Tulsa Review
“One Good Friend” in The Font: A Literary Journal for Language Teachers
“She Wanted Purple Jeans for Christmas” in One Art, a Journal of Poetry
“Written Archaeology” and “The B-Grandkid” in Down in the Dirt
“Epinephrine” and “Jagged Life” in RedRoseThorns
“Orion’s Killer” in The Cackling Kettle
“Ode to Blue” in The Ignatian Literary Magazine
“I Am Blue” and “A Torch on Andromeda” in Nebo, a Literary Journal
Fiction
“Skin Deep” in Schlock! Web Zine
“Anticlimax” in Lunchbreak Review
Nonfiction
“Delta Blues” in FLARE: The Flagler Review
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