PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS:
Winter of Worship, Copper Canyon Press, Winter, 2025
Water I Won't Touch, Copper Canyon Press, Spring, 2021
All the Gay Saints, Saturnalia Books, Spring, 2020
Winner of the 2018 Saturnalia Book Prize
Long-listed for the 2020 Believer Book Awards
What Runs Over, YesYes Books, Winter, 2017
Winner of a 2019 Whiting Award
Winner of the 2016 Pamet River Prize
Finalist for the 2017 Lambda Literary Award in Transgender Poetry
Finalist for the 2018 American Book Fest's Best Book Award, LGBTQ Nonfiction
SELECTED POETRY:
“From Above” American Poetry Review, 2023
“Rain in April” American Poetry Review, 2023
“One Hundred Demons” American Poetry Review, 2023
“Daytona 500” Academy of American Poets, Poem-A-Day Series, 2022
“Y2K in Northeastern PA” Cherry Tree, 2022
“Another apology lost in the mail” Cherry Tree, 2022
"Ghazals connected as though cargo freights" Ploughshares, 2021
"A Marble Run for this Finite Earth" American Poetry Review, 2020
"A Marble Run for the Lights" American Poetry Review, 2020
"A Marble Run for Another End-Of-Days" Frontier, 2021
Winner of the 2020 Frontier Open
“A Poem for the Start of the New Decade” Peach Mag, 2020
Winner of the 2020 Poetry Contest, Selected by Alok Vaid-Menon
"Ghazal written for the Lids in Downtown Brooklyn where I chose my name” TriQuarterly, 2021
"Water I Won’t Touch [My partner & I only believe]" Foundry, 2021
"On imagining Ariana Grande, before the fame, working every summer at a Rita’s Italian Ice" Puerto del Sol, 2021
“A very Trans and Arachnophobic Poem” Foglifter, 2020
“Sonnet for the Monarch’s Migration” Foglifter, 2020
"Haibun for my Mother and the Early 2000s" DIAGRAM, 20201
"Poem in which I arm wrestle with my father and finally win" Flypaper Lit, 2021
"Poem about only baseball" Flypaper Lit, 2021
"The Only Atlas We Need Is One Drafted By Children", The Southeast Review, 2021
“A Poem About Batman”, The Southeast Review, 2021
“When My Fantasy Football Team Asks Me To Write A Poem About The Jersey Shore ‘Note’”, The Southeast Review, 2021
“On Crescents & Transition & Waning” republished and anthologized in, You Don’t Have to Be Everything: Poems for Girls Becoming Themselves, Workman Publishing, 2021
"On the Benefits of Learning by Example" republished, Give Me Time, via Grist Journal, 2021
"Ghazal written for the Lids in Downtown Brooklyn where I chose my name” republished, [Working Title Anthology], 2022
"Sestina Written as Though Genesis" POETRY Magazine, 2020
“I wish all children could touch the sky” Gigantic Sequins, 2019
Winner of the 2019 Poetry Contest
"You've heard this before, the only way out is through" American Poetry Review, 2019
"Transgender Heroic: All this Ridiculous Flesh" The Normal School, 2019
"My partner asks me to write them a poem about Sheryl Crow" POETRY Magazine, 2019
"To the Cherry Blossoms on 16th and Wharton" Embodied: An Intersectional Feminist Graphic Poetry Anthology, 2021
“On apologizing after the Earth has circled the Sun a hundred times” Adroit, 2020
“I keep Lil Uzi Vert’s lady bug Bic lighter in my pocket" Adroit, 2020
“Elegy for the not yet dead Rainforest Cafe” Adroit, 2020
“One geography of belonging” Academy of American Poets, Poem-A-Day Series, 2019
"Expressing my feelings to my future husband-wife (or, ritual in which gender)" Academy of American Poets, 2019
“Sonnet on having forgotten to recycle my body” Puerto del Sol, 2019
"Drought Becomes Me" Fugue, 2019
“On the ways our mouths betray us” Crab Orchard Review, 2020 “On Traveling Together” Foundry, 2019
"On Crescents & Transition & Waning” Portland Review, 2019 "Sand & Silt" The O"ng, 2018
“Some thoughts on luck” Peach Magazine, 2019
“Sonnet in which we remain foolishly hopeful (or, obituary for the top soil)” Gulf Coast, 2019
“Though Odysseus was gone for 20 years my sister was gone for 9” Cosmonauts Avenue, 2018
“On Trespassing” Cosmonauts Avenue, 2018
"Notes Toward Top Surgery and the Impending Death of the Barrier Reef" TriQuarterly, 2018
"Here we are, aging together just like we said we would"TriQuarterly, 2018
"Valentine, Nebraska: Cherry County" The Map is Not, 2018
"Trans and summering in Wildwood, NJ" The Journal, 2018
"on the abuse of sleep aids" The Journal, 2018
"Expressing my feelings to my future husband-wife (or, ritual in which gender)" Hayden's Ferry Review, 2018
“there is a point at which i tire of my own fear” The Tiny, 2018
“My future husband and I make a blood pact to become the fathers we always needed” The Tiny, 2018
“On Attempting to clear the air” The Tiny, 2018
“trans boy uses the public restroom again” New South, 2018
"Thoughts on Romance as the Heat Index Rises" Interrupture, 2018
“Echo” Timber, 2018
“Love Poem with a lack of Conception” Timber, 2018
"On the benefits of learning by example" Yalobusha Review, 2018
"Poem in which two trans boys take their first marital dance in the water" Yalobusha Review, 2018
“My mother believes in my marriage and this shows me her heart can forgive even years spent dancing alone” Adroit, 2018
Winner of the 2017 Britany Noakes Poetry Award
“During my top surgery my partner says to the doctor, tell me what you will do to their veins” Tinderbox, 2017
“a spell to absolve your own transness”, Rabbit Catastrophe Press, 2017
Winner of the 2017 Real Good Poem Prize
Poem with No Water at All" Boston Review, 2018
“Daddy says” The Fourth River, 2018
“Me and the Neighbor Boy” No Tokens, 2018
Sinners must live with what their sins sow” Grist, 2017
“my shadow looks more like a man than i do, so i am both fearful and envious” Grist, 2017
“My horoscope is my future husband’s horoscope)” Grist, 2017
SELECTED PROSE:
“This House is Obvious” Adroit, 2017
“As I Like It” New Orleans Review, 2016
“dancing in the colosseum” Permafrost, 2016
“Attempting to Teach in a Desert” The Boiler, 2015
“Things that Run” Dogwood: A Journal of Poetry and Prose
“Inversion” Vela Magazine, 2014
Winner of 2014 Non-Fiction Contest