Publications

  • Forestwish

    The strings of bullet seeds dangle like green jewels in opulent bunches on the biggest and healthiest ones, under the wind-battered specimens the seed strings lie on the ground, trampled.

    “People all over the city notice these trees” the guide says. Less alone am I, for being a person among others, noticing all over the city.

    My chapbook Forestwish won the 2021 Birdhouse Chapbook Prize and came out with Ghostbird Press in April 2022. Order your copy here.

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  • What a shame! Franzi reads Roland Barthes

    If Roland Barthes is as incredible as Theweleit and Žižek, then he’ll be able to tell her how romantic love can go wrong and how to imagine it in a friendlier way. She’s very interested in that. But even more so, she’s interested in what kind of love Jens thinks highly of, and if by chance the book has a conscious or subconscious message from Jens, she’s interested in that most of all. At home she immediately climbs into bed with Roland Barthes and begins to read.

    My translation of Veronika Reichl’s “What a Shame” appeared in minor literature[s] in March, 2025. The story is an excerpt from Reichl’s book, The Feeling of Thinking.

  • Love letter to the Best Bar in Queens

    It’s raining, but we are not made of sugar. It’s raining so hard that the bright blue edifice is a blur, an indigo eye bathed in tears... 

    Essay at Beyond Words Literary Magazine in the June 2022 Issue.

  • Eating Alone

    Together with Katie Machen, I’m the coeditor of Eating Alone, an anthology of essays and poems. It was published in 2023 by Clotheslines, a literary journal that explores what it means to be in relation.

    Please contact me directly if you would like to purchase a copy.