“Of Locusts & Grasshoppers“, Snowflake Magazine. Poem. 2025

“little heads cluster”, Golden Triangle DC Haiku Public Art Display. Poem. 2025

“I Hope My Funeral’s a Fucking Mess”, Electric Literature. Poem. 2024

Second Place, Dream Foundry’s Emerging Writing Contest 2024

“Colorado, You Need to Look at Transgender People”, Electric Literature. An essay on the visibility of the transgender community. 2023

Colorado, you need to look at transgender people. Not just visit us when you’re comfortable for the occasional outings to our safe spaces, not just marvel at us when we choose to perform for your entertainment. It’s not enough for you to gawk at your televisions. You need to look around you, and listen, and start asking questions. Question yourself, question one another, and then, finally, question what you actually know about us.

“In My Worst Nightmares My Father Transitions”, Electric Literature. An essay on denial and the strength it takes to live authentically. 2023

I still, on occasion, catch glimpses of a diaphanous femme father in the sweet turn of my lips. Hints of a butch mother can still be found between my set shoulders, shifting to bear heavy burdens. But a simple examination of the wearing of the tread of my work boots serves as refutation to years of maladaptive fantasy. Those people never existed, and I am here, putting one sore foot in front of the other.

“Flowers”, New Reader Magazine. A short science-fiction story about challenging what’s been taught.

The emotion that arose was foreign and incomprehensible, complex and strange, like the ceiling high above him. He took one last look of longing behind him. Past the forbidden door, inside the building, the transport door slid open. Something within him hardened. He turned and walked away from the door without a glance at the tangled mass of metal and concrete he left behind.

Updated link for Flowers also available here.

“Dandelion”, included in “The Art of Reading & Writing Haiku“

Fine then!

I will be a dandelion.

Weed in name alone.

More haikus can be found here.

Reverend Robert Stewart & Doris Stewart Prize for Excellence in Religion Writing, Essay. 2018.

Odyssey Online Articles, Active Fall 2017:

From “5 Holiday Gift Ideas For Your Sugar Daddy“:
“It’s the most wonderful time of the year, when you get to coordinate around your Sugar Daddy’s schedule to figure out what part of the holidays you get to spend with your family and what part you spend in his closet, hiding from his wife. But what Christmas present is good enough for the High Fructose Corn Syrup Parent who has it all? Here are some ideas for what you can give back to the person that gives so much back to you!”

Soupapalooza, Kaia’s blog on the anthropology of soup across the globe, focusing on soup as a folk cuisine.

From article “Chowder, I Hardly Know Her!”

“…what sets chowder apart? While seafood is a predominant component, corn chowder lovers know that it’s not a requirement. Etymology provides little hint either, as the history of the term is murky.

In general, you can spot a chowder by the color. Chowder tends to more heavily feature dairy products (cream, milk) and glutinous thickeners (roux, crushed crackers). These conspire to make an opaque white soup, distinct from its brothier cousins.”

Award-Winning Journalism at the Collegiate Level, First Place at the 2017 ICPA Contest Headline Writing

“Ratted Out: A Tail of Toilets and Terror”

This headline has everything: alliteration, a play on words and an appropriately used homonym.