Wow! ESC DOT ZIP was a finalist for Copper Nickel + Milkweed Editions' 2024-25 Jake York Prize! Congratulations to Bo Hee Moon for the win and to all the other finalists.

Exciting news! ESC DOT ZIP, my poetry collection, was a finalist for Gasher Press's 2024 Book Award!

So excited that my poetry collection ESC DOT ZIP was chosen as a finalist for Noemi Press's 2024 Book Award!

Holy heck, COLLAPSE got a super kind rejection from Graywolf for their Nonfiction prize. Thanks for the consideration!

Reading May 9th at The Model Cafe in Boston, MA as part of the T4T reading series

"To prepare for a panel at the intersection of identity and work, I’d been digging through my poems and resumé alike, trying to solve a nagging question: why is it that the more transsexual I get, the more employable I feel?"

With Alina Pleskova, Alexis Almeida, Cecily Chen, Cea (Constantine Jones), Mike Soto & Gala Mukomolova

"Tour Pome" in the Columbia Review Fall 2022 issue

Thrilled to announce that my manuscript COLLAPSE was a finalist for Wendy's Subway 2022 Open Reading Period, judged by Asiya Wadud!

from the Hot Pink Magazine reading, AWP 2023

The Cheburashka reading was so wonderful.

AWP events with the Cheburashka Collective & with Black Warrior Review

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My first for the Rumpus! 

Just the most thrilled to be reading virtually at Books Are Magic for the release of Andrea Abi-Karam’s incredible new book Villainy. With some of my favorite writers—Andrea Lawlor, Eileen Myles, Sahar Khraibani, Kamelya Omayma Youssef, and of course Andrea themselves. September 17, 7pm EST, 4pm PST, RSVP above. 

one of my pet fav poems from 2017 or so found a perfect home at Hobart. perfect timing for the post-topchop summer in which we truly commit to the bit of accepting the desire for the bad object of masculinity. GTL everyone.

Iowa turns 20 wrote a 20th anniversary piece about Slipknot’s legendary disasterpiece album and its cultural impact