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Selected Publications

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"Relearning to Live Without Scarcity"

"Honor Walk"

—New England Review

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"[The Intensive Care Nurse Addresses the Wound]"

"[Post-Mortem Care]"

—forthcoming in The Hopkins Review

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"Instructions Withheld from a Nursing School Syllabus" and other poems

—forthcoming in The Missouri Review, 2025 runner-up for The Perkoff Prize

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​"Yield Strength"

"The Possible Music of Doubt"

—West Branch

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"Orchid Mantis"

—Hayden's Ferry Review

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"Broken Blues Ghazal with Ruined Dress and No Pearls"

—Poet Lore

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"Disarticulation of Carrie Buck After State-Sponsored Sterilization"

—Ninth Letter

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"Essential"

—Bellevue Literary Review

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"What We've Lost"

—Crab Creek Review

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"Deep in the Heartwood"

—Salt Hill Journal

Available Online

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"Ambulance Ride-Along Through a Maternity Care Desert"

—Frozen Sea

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