Poems & Other Creative Writing

I’m fascinated by the way cities grit and how women move through the world. Her work has been published in Tinderbox, Vinyl Poetry and Prose, Glass Poetry, The Normal School, Juked, and more. She was a finalist for the Rita Dove Award in Poetry, the Gigantic Sequins Poetry Award, as well as an Honorable Mention for the Wrolstad Contemporary Poetry Series.

Her chapbook, Trashcan Funeral, is available from dancing girl press. 

Photo by Monica Barber

Photo by Monica Barber

Garbanzo Literary Journal, Volume 3: “On the Edge” 

Two@SJSU: “Try to Stop Me” (short story)

CSU Summer Arts Newsletter: “The Wemoirist” (essay)

34th Parallel, Issue 25: “Captured” 

Perceptions Magazine 2014: “Spirits” 

Deep Water Literary Journal 2014, Issue 2: “His Pulse,” “Nerves” 

Burntdistrict, Volume 3, Issue 2: “Off-line” 

Three: “Neon Nights” 

Reed Magazine, Issue 68: “Interview with Alan Soldofsky” (feature story)

Photo by Briana Jauregui

Photo by Briana Jauregui

Caesura, (dis)Ability: “The Train” 

American Mustard III: “What Happens When You Believe in Love” 

Vagabonds: An Anthology of Mad Ones: “To The Drunken Lady On a Microphone,” “Kitty’s Apothecary” 

Reed Magazine, Issue 69: “Cinderella” 

Yes, Poetry: “Untouchable Number” 

Vagabond City: “Step Six” 

sPARKLE + bLINK 82: “Symptoms,” “The Things That Keep Me Up At Night,” “The Women in my Family” 

Sage Curtis reading for Quiet Lightning at The Stud Bar on Monday, February 6, 2017. 

Lipstickparty Mag: “The Women March” 

The Fem Lit Mag: “Eschatology” 

Luna Luna Magazine: “Medusa” 

The Santa Clara Review: "Step Four"

Degenerates: Voices for Peace: “Midnight,” “Step Ten,” “One-on-One” 

Cliterature: Feminism Issue: “A Girl and Her Knife,” “Portrait at 27” 

Mainstreet Rag: Of Burgers and Barrooms: "Instructions for Girls in Glitter Dresses" 

Can You Hear Me: A Planned Parenthood Action California Project: "Brock Turner Wants An Appeal" 

The Dandelion Review: "Advice From My Body," "The First 12 Steps of a Child"

The Normal School: "Fix"

Glass Poetry: "We Think Differently (At Night)"

Agape Editions: "Bacchae

Juked: “Letting the Wind In

sPARKLE + bLINK 100: “A Series of Small Apocalypses

Cotton Xenomorph: “All Y’all

Tinderbox: “Jacked

sPARKLE + bLINK 105: “Manifesting a Mansion