CV | Poet

EDUCATION

Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing (poetry), Regis University (Jan. 2021)

Bachelor of Arts in Cognitive Literary Studies, Regis University (May 2019)

Awards: The Robert A. O’Sullivan, S.J. Memorial Award Excellence in Writing

House Manager & Patron Experience Team, Northglenn Arts & Parsons Theater

Bookseller and Bookstore Manager, Second Star to the Right Children's Books

Clerk and Bookstore Manager, The Book Cranny

Administrative Assistant, Mile-High MFA Program

Intern to the Program Coordinator, Mile-High MFA Program

PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS

Of All Stars the Most Beautiful, Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing (2020)

Inverted Syntax, Issue 3 (2020) -cover art "Earth-Like" painting

POEMS

2023

“Halley’s Comet” Best Poets of 2022 by Eber & Wein Publishing
“Earth Day” Best Poets of 2023 by Eber & Wein Publishing

2022

“You Stepped Out of the Body” The Champagne Room
“A Traveler Named Perseverance” The Champagne Room
“as-bes-tos” The Champagne Room
“A Universe Within A Universe Within a Universe” The Champagne Room
“Stars Do Not Love Other Stars” ARTS by the People
“Windchimes” ARTS by the People
“We Are Amethyst Star Things” ARTS by the People
“Singing to No One” Mulberry Literary
“The Earth is Quiet” Mulberry Literary

2021

“There is Nothing as Strange as People” (longer version) Gingerbread House Lit Mag
“The Ghost-World” Heavy Feather Review, “Heavy Passages” feature
“th(e) body is ink in th(e) (e)arth” Heavy Feather Review, “Heavy Passages” feature
“You Buried Me Right Where I Belong” Heavy Feather Review, “Heavy Passages” feature
“Climate” Heavy Feather Review, “Heavy Passages” feature
“To be Loved and to Also Still be Alone” Quillkeeper Press
“Love Letter to My Body” Quillkeeper Press
“The Pink Dimension” Quillkeeper Press
“Alternates” Quillkeeper Press
“Discovery” Quillkeeper Press
“& You Gave Me a Pocket-Sized Rainbow” LUPERCALIApress SATURNALIA '21
“Achluophobia” Defunkt Magazine
“Posthumous Love Letter” Harpur Palette

2020

“Upon Considering Waiting as Circular Movement” Blood Tree Literature, Issue 8
“Sometimes the Moon is Missing” Blood Tree Literature, Issue 8
“Your First is Making Stone Out of Everything” Blood Tree Literature, Issue 8

"The Manner of Chapel" Allegheny Review
“If I Were Apollo & You the Sun” Loophole

“Born in Light” Loophole

“I Am the Strangest Thing” Loophole

“The Universe Five Dimensions Away” Loophole

“Breadwinner” Loophole
“Planning” Kind Writers *contest winner

“Ars Poetica” Eunois Poetry

“Arranged in Rosettes” Eunois Poetry
“Prometheus” Eunois Poetry

“Lettuce” Eunois Poetry
“I Make Eyeshadow from Berries” Eunois Poetry
“To Sylvia Rivera” Eunois Poetry
“Kneeled on Kitchen Tile” Eunois Poetry
“Fata Morgana” Eunois Poetry
“Wastoid” Eunois Poetry
“A Sexton Confessional” Eunois Poetry

“In Our Own Small Bodies” South Broadway Ghost Society

2019

“To Be In A Time of Extinction” Heavy Feather Review blog, #NoMorePresidents series

“The Kübler-Ross Model” Project Agent Orange blog
“Independence Day” Project Agent Orange blog
“The Queen Has No Legal Move” 30 North Review
“In The Desert With an Eggshell Cardigan” 30 North Review
“Found” Asterism
“Sparrowhawk” Asterism

“Rayleigh Scattering” The Blue Route

“You Have A New Match” Qommunicate Publishing

“First Date Jitters” Qommunicate Publishing/ #queer, vol. 3

“Storm Emma” Qommunicate Publishing/ #queer, vol. 3
“Batman Doesn’t Scare Emma” Qommunicate Publishing/ #queer, vol. 3
“I’m Reading the Vagina Monologues” Qommunicate Publishing/ #queer, vol. 3
“Charlotte Pipe” Furrow Magazine
“Acoustic Escapement” Loophole, Volume 5

“For Ella” Loophole, Volume 5
“After Erosion” Loophole, Volume 5

“Maynooth’s Creative Writing Class” Loophole, Volume 5
“Behind the House of the Tragic Poet” Loophole, Volume 5
“Belfast” ANGLES

“Seat 23A” ANGLES
“Of the Homosexual: A Golden Shovel” Anastamos
“Napoli” Susquehanna Review
“We Cannot Both Be True” River & South
“First Day of School” Minerva Rising Press

“Reincarnation” Revolution
“There is Nothing as Strange as People” Post Queer Journal

“My Pronouns” Post Queer Journal
“Swelling” Post Queer Journal

“To Save You, I, Chemo, Begin By Burning” Inverted Syntax
“Residue” Word for Word
“Story” Word for Word
“The Female Origin” Word for Word
“Did You Know” Red Cedar Review
“Beach Eulogy” Red Cedar Review

"Coming Out" Runstone

2018

“A Wednesday I Can’t Remember” Sixfold, Spring edition

“[worked hard]” Sixfold, Spring edition

“No One Lives in 1962 McCollum Road” Sixfold, Spring edition

“Deleting Emails The Week Kevin Died” Sixfold, Spring edition

“Honor in Numbers” Flourishing, Flourishing

“To Anxiety” ANGLES

“The Modern Wolf” ANGLES

“I’m Scared to Have a Son” Furrow magazine

“Sappho Made Hot Cocoa” Loophole, Volume IV

“We Couldn’t Be Astronauts” Loophole, Volume IV