My Writing

Hello!

Welcome to my current home for links to things I've written. These days I mostly write lyric essays and flash CNF (creative nonfiction!), with a li'l speculative flash fiction sprinkled in for panache. I'm starting to try my hand at prose poems, too. Come check out some of my stuff! 

I'm also very friendly on Instagram. 

2026

The Mackinaw: a journal of prose poetry — eight prose poems to be published on Dec. 8, 2026! 

Blood Dance: An Anthology of Dark Flash Fiction, published by editors of The Ekphrastic Review — "Daybreak" (flash fiction) to be featured in this print anthology coming out in late 2026!

HerStry — "Claudia & Me" (lyric essay) to be published on Nov. 11, 2026!

L'Esprit Literary Review — "Missed Carriages" (flash CNF) to be published in the Fall Quarterly online feature, mid-October 2026!

Midway Journal — "DUI Test: A Backwards Abecedarian" (speculative CNF/lyric essay) coming soon! 

Flash the Court — "To a Flame" (flash CNF) published on July 31, 2026! 

Major 7th Magazine — "Do It Again" by Steely Dan (flash CNF) published in Volume 28 on July 26, 2026! 

Troublemaker Firestarter — "He gave me obstructions," a double-wide sonnet, published in Issue 11:11, July 2026! (*Print only, but I made a video of me reading it that you can read along with!)

* Hear me read the poem on Troublemaker Firestarter's "On Fire / In Trouble" podcast, Episode 10! (I'm reader #2 among a slew of writerly rock stars; my part starts around 13:13.) 

Does It Have Pockets — "Miscarriage Mixtape," a lyric essay-in-a-playlist, published in the July 2026 issue! 

LEON Literary Review — "Orbital Resonance," a speculative flash fiction, published in Issue 36, on July 1, 2026! 

The Bulb Region — "Economics" (a two-part micro CNF) published on June 13, 2026 as part of a special "flash flood" series for National Flash Fiction Day! 

Midsummer Dream House — "Requirements for a City" (lyric essay) published on May 31, 2026

The Gorko Gazette — "The Laughingstock of the Death-Collectors' Convention" (speculative flash fiction/humor!) published on April 29, 2026

Blood+Honey — "Carnage" (flash fiction) published on April 24, 2026

Eat, Darling, Eat — "Hillbilly French Toast" (CNF) published on April 17, 2026 (with audio component! and recipe!)

Electric Literature — "Goodbye Mermaids: What Was Lost When My Daughter Gained Sound" (essay) was published on April 2, 2026, and was the top featured essay in Memoir Land's "Memoir Monday" ("a weekly curation of the best personal essays from around the web") on April 6, 2026! 

* Watch me read the beginning of this essay at the MoCo Underground Writers Showcase on June 18, 2026 at the Sandy Spring Museum (MD)! (My part starts right at the three-minute mark.)

Blood+Honey — "Mr. Hollywood" (flash fiction) published on March 24, 2026

The Ekphrastic Review — "Serpentine" (CNF; an ekphrastic response to a painting by Michael Schoenholtz) published on Feb. 20, 2026 

ARTWIFE — "Shy" (my first published essay!) published on Jan. 8, 2026


2025

The Argyle and Blood+Honey — "Review: 'Take It Personally' by Claire Hopple" (my first book review!) published in Blood+Honey on Dec. 5, 2025 and in The Argyle on Dec. 15, 2025; David Estringel edits both publications so it ran in both places! 

Ghost Parachute — "Early Intervention" (flash CNF) published in the December 2025 Issue

* This piece was also selected for the print anthology Ghost Parachute: 175 Flash Stories, released on Feb. 10, 2026! 

Blood+Honey — "Poultice" (flash CNF) published on Nov. 30, 2025

Fairfax County Public Library "The World We Write" Short Story Contest — "Baby Blanket" (flash CNF) selected as one of three adult winners, Summer 2025!  


Before 2025

WWPH Writes (Washington Writers' Publishing House publication) — "Box" (flash CNF) won second place in the WWPH Writes holiday contest, judged by Brandel France de Bravo, and was featured in Issue 41! (January 2023)

WWPH Writes — "Bad People: Microfictions" ("Spare Change," "Driving Drunk," and "Cut Off Your Nose") featured in Issue 38! (November 2022)

* The editors nominated "Spare Change" for the Best Microfiction anthology! 

The Lascaux Review — "Enablers" (flash fiction) was a Lascaux Prize Finalist for Flash Fiction, and was printed in The Lascaux Prize 2016 anthology!