selected works
poetry
“Your Dad Introduces Me to the Backyard Compost Heap,” About Place Journal. (Forthcoming 2025.)
“elegy,” EcoTheo Review. (Forthcoming 2025.)
“Machete,” Attached to the Living World: A New Ecopoetry Anthology, 2025.
“Hammerhead,” The Dodge, 2024. (Nominee, 2024 Pushcart Prize, Orison Book’s Best Spiritual Literature Award 2024.)
“The Voice of the Forest Speaks to Hansel and Gretel,” The Tiger Moth Review, 2024.
“Bloody Mary Ode,” Tinderbox Poetry Journal, 2022. (Semi-finalist, 2023 Brett Elizabeth Jenkins Poetry Prize.)
“hors d’oeuvres in july,” The Echo World, 2019.
“Telling war into the telephone,” Literary LEO, 2018.
“III. Summer,” Virginia Literary Review, 2018.
nonprofit
“Climate-Friendly Foods for Kids,” Green America, 2022.
“The Truth About Vegan Leather,” Green America, 2022.
“Healthy Mom, Healthy Baby: Providing nutritious food to moms-to-be,” Capital Area Food Bank, 2021.
“Fueling Families When Times Are Tough: The Food Bank serves up hope and nourishing food,” Blue Ridge Area Food Bank, 2020.
“Canning Hunger and Preserving Hope: Seniors go the distance,” Blue Ridge Area Food Bank, 2020.
university
“Trace Your Waste,” American University, 2024.
“Alumnae Share a Crowning Achievement,” American University, 2024.
“50 Years of Influence: Golden Eagles Reunion Convenes, Honors History-Making Black Alumni,” American University, 2023.
“For the Love of Language,” American University, 2022.
art + literature
“Introduction to ‘o camerado close! o you and me at last,’” Grace and Gravity, 2022.
“Artisan Portrait: Floradise Orchids,“ Wine & Country Life, 2020.
“Articulating ‘Mexican Heaven’: Poet José Olivarez illuminates both bruises and bliss in Citizen Illegal,” C-VILLE Weekly, 2019.
“Writing past wrongs: Author Jocelyn Johnson looks for new American truths,” C-VILLE Weekly, 2018.
“Voice, Diction, and Influence: An interview with Mitchell S. Jackson,” Virginia Quarterly Review, 2018.
"All are welcome: Theatre CHS repurposes immigrants' poetry, prose for unprecedented play," C-VILLE Weekly, 2018.
audio + video
“The Grace & Gravity Story,” Video Director and Editor, Grace & Gravity, 2023.
Probable Causation, Sound Engineer, 2018–2020.
“Goodbye, 2020: Reflecting on a year like no other,” Blue Ridge Area Food Bank, 2020.
”Locatora Radio” Segment, Charlottesville Soundboard, WTJU, 2019.
“Episode 15 – Michael Kennedy,” Professors Are People, Too, WUVA News, 2018.