Publications
Books
City of Dancing Gargoyles -- SFWP -- September 2024
Cabinet of Wrath: A Doll Collection -- Aqueduct Press -- June 2021
Political AF: A Rage Collection -- Unlikely Books -- August 2020
Midnight at the Organporium -- Aqueduct Press -- April 2019
Circe's Bicycle -- LitFest Press -- March 2018
TreeVolution -- Lillicat Publishers (original) 2016, now indie
Fiction
Flash fiction where noted: (FLASH)
November 2024 -- Midnight Firehawk: Bird of Blood and Flame -- Book of 42 (FLASH)
September 2024 -- "In the Kingdom of Dragons" and "Last Line in the Aisle" -- Unlikely Stories
September 2024 -- The Wolf at the Door -- Ghost Parachute (FLASH)
June 2024 -- Angels and Blueberries -- The song is... Guerilla Podcasts
May 2024 -- Sasabonsam -- Gothic Fantasy: African Ghost Short Stories -- Flame Tree Press
May 2024 -- Sharing is Caring -- Zoetic Press/Alphanumeric
March 2024 -- The Annunciation(s) -- Club Chicxulub Journal (FLASH)
March 2024 -- All My Surly Children -- Cotton Xenomorph (FLASH)
March 2024 -- In the Empire of Shrinking Jellyfish -- Cotton Xenomorph (FLASH)
March 2024 -- A Turtle in Love, Singing -- Bourbon Penn
March 2024 -- The Impossibility of Bats: A Pseudo-Sestina -- Gargoyle Online #7 (FLASH)
March 2024 -- Armed for Love: A Pseudo-Sestina -- Gargoyle Online #7 (FLASH)
February 2024 -- I hope I call you back -- Worlds of IF
December 2023 -- Would you, Empress -- Voices of the Winter Solstice II: The Ending Place (FLASH)
December 2023 -- Date Night -- Astrolabe (FLASH)
December 2023 -- I Hope I Call You Back -- Simultaneous Times Podcast
October 2023 -- Cold Comfort -- Flash Fiction Magazine (FLASH)
October 2023 -- Welcome to Your Lifting -- Adventures in Bodily Autonomy -- Aqueduct Press
September 2023 -- In the City of Wrestling Kudzu -- Simultaneous Times Vol. 3, Space Cowboy Books (FLASH)
July 2023 -- The Orb (audio) -- Starship Sofa
June 2023 -- Little Spoon -- FlashFlood Journal (FLASH)
June 2023 -- Night of the Butterflies: A Broken Sestina -- ASP Bulletin (FLASH)
May 2023 -- Statue Forest: A Pseudo-Sestina -- Centaur (FLASH)
March 2023 -- Saguaro Future -- Healing Visions, Matter Press (FLASH)
February 2023 -- In the City of Crying Merchants -- Gargoyle Online (FLASH)
February 2023 -- In the City of Falling Magicians -- Gargoyle Online (FLASH)
January 2023 -- The Three Times Oscar Left Me -- trampset (FLASH)
January 2023 -- In the City of Gun-Toting Trees -- Half Light, Pumpernickel House Publishing
November 2022 -- In the City of Chuckling Roses -- Wyldblood Magazine (FLASH)
October 2022 -- And endless stars to wish upon -- Twin Pies Literary (FLASH)
June 2022 -- In the City of Leaping Libraries -- Gigantic Sequins (FLASH)
June 2022 -- In the City of Glaring Chocolates -- Daily Science Fiction (FLASH)
March 2022 -- Miranda -- The Commuter/Electric Literature (FLASH)
March 2022 -- In the City of Lying Houses -- Nightlight (FLASH)
March 2022 -- Velociraptor (audio) -- Micro Podcast (FLASH)
March 2022 -- Don't Blame the Cheesy Crinkles -- Uncharted Magazine
February 2022 -- In the City of Warring Babies -- And if that Mockingbird Don't Sing: Parenting Stories Gone Speculative, Alternating Current (FLASH)
February 2022 -- In the City of Flying Trumpets -- Longleaf Review (FLASH)
February 2022 -- Ghost Wolf -- Wyldblood Magazine
February 2022 -- In the City of Praying Devils and In the City of Bleeding Books -- Middle House Review (FLASH)
January 2022 -- In the Garden of Rings -- If There's Anyone Left (FLASH)
January 2022 -- In the City of Failing Knives -- Archive of the Odd
December 2021 -- In the City of Sneaking Needles -- Paranoid Tree (FLASH)
November 2021 -- In the City of Sneaking Fences -- Wizards in Space, Issue 07 (FLASH)
November 2021 -- In the City of Floating Wolves -- 34 Orchard, Volume 4
November 2021 -- In the Tearoom -- CRAFT Literary (FLASH)
October 2021 -- In the City of Kissing Dragons -- Root of Evil: a Villainous Anthology, The Daily Drunk (FLASH)
October 2021 -- The Cloud -- 2021 Bay to Ocean Anthology (ESWA) (Pushcart nomination)
October 2021 -- In the City of Singing Bonfires -- Harpy Hybrid (FLASH)
October 2021 -- In the City of Blustering Maidens -- Mason Jar Press Jarnal, Volume 1 (FLASH)
October 2021 -- In the City of Swordfighting Robots -- AntipodeanSF (FLASH)
September 2021 -- In the City of Philandering Flowerpots -- Janus Literary (FLASH)
September 2021 -- In the City of Screaming Ropes -- Jellyfish Review (FLASH) (Selected for Wigleaf Top 50, 2022)
September 2021 -- In the City of Sailing Statues -- Flash Frog (FLASH)
September 2021 -- In the City of Shrieking Ottomans -- Starward Shadows Quarterly
July 2021 -- Lettuce Free -- Cotton Xenomorph (FLASH)
July 2021 -- In the City of Drunk Butterflies -- HAD (FLASH)
June 2021 -- The Orb -- Black Sci-Fi Short Stories, Flame Tree Publishing (story highlighted in starred review of anthology in Publishers Weekly)
Spring 2021 -- We're going to need a bigger pot -- 580 Split (FLASH)
May 2021 -- The Kraken in Love -- Women on Writing (Winner, Winter FLASH Fiction Contest) (FLASH)
May 2021 -- The Wormhole NextDoor -- Heavy Feather Review
April 2021 -- The Collector -- Mermaids Monthly (FLASH)
March 2021 -- The Female of the Species (Audio) -- StarShipSofa
March 2021 -- The Kraken in Love -- trampset (FLASH)
March 2021 -- Fairbanks -- Bourbon Penn
February 2021 -- My Name is Draco -- Andromeda Spaceways Best Stories (Vol 4)
January 2021 -- Shielded -- Departure Mirror Quarterly (FLASH)
December 2020 -- The Notepad -- Funny Pearls (FLASH)
December 2020 -- Velociraptor -- Wigleaf (FLASH)
November 2020 -- Proliferate -- If There's Anyone Left (FLASH)
November 2020 -- The Greatest Show -- A Story in 100 Words (FLASH) (Included in Best Small Fictions 2021)
October 2020 -- Thank You for Shopping with CouchCart -- Heavy Feather Review
October 2020 -- The Spleen -- trampset (FLASH) (Best Small Fictions nomination)
July 2020 -- On the Universal Rights of Ducks and Girls -- CRAFT (Pushcart nomination)
June 2020 -- Glow -- 7 X 7 (Collaboration with Alan Chin)
June 2020 -- My mother is a plant -- Lost Balloon (FLASH) (Pushcart nomination)
May 2020 -- Barry Knows Best -- Furious Gravity
April 2020 -- How to Find a Demon Eater -- Pandemic Publications
April 2020 -- The Stinging End -- AntipodeanSF (FLASH) -- podcast here
April 2020 -- How Melba Really Got her Groove Back -- Toasted Cake Podcast (FLASH)
March 2020 -- Midge -- X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine
March 2020 -- Petite Marie -- Askance Publishing (runner up, Winter Short Story competition)
March 2020 -- Spencer -- Speculative City (noted in Tor Must-Read Speculative Short Fiction March 2020)
February 2020 -- A Confession -- The Museum of Americana
February 2020 -- Becky -- Twisted Love, Bronzeville Books (out of print)
January 2020 -- The City Turns its Back -- El Chapo Review (FLASH)
January 2020 -- Excerpts from The Human Zoo -- The Coil/Footnote: A Literary Journal of History (Alternating Current)
December 2019 -- How to Knit a New Holiday Party -- The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts (FLASH)
December 2019 -- Return -- Unearthed
December 2019 -- How Melba Got Her Groove Back -- Bending Genres (FLASH)
October 2019 -- My Name is Draco -- Andromeda Spaceways Magazine
October 2019 -- Malibu Lacey -- Ghost Parachute (FLASH) (Pushcart nomination)
September 2019 -- The Remedy -- The Drabble (FLASH)
September 2019 -- Big Bird -- Jellyfish Review (FLASH)
July 2019 -- Plot Baby -- Monkeybicycle
June 2019 -- Controlled Burn -- Story Seed Vault (FLASH)
June 2019 -- What Now? -- Flash Flood (FLASH)
March 2019 -- The Scent of Lions -- Escape Pod/Artemis Rising
March 2019 -- Another Damn Cottage -- Toasted Cake Podcast (FLASH)
February 2019 -- The Loveliest Thing -- Cease, Cows (FLASH) (Pushcart nomination)
January 2019 -- Antidote -- The Drabble (FLASH)
January 2019 -- Firehawk Lullaby -- Jellyfish Review (FLASH)
December 2018 -- Driverless Error -- Unlikely Stories Mark V (FLASH)
December 2018 -- SCOTUS 2247 -- Unlikely Stories Mark V (FLASH)
December 2018 -- We Laugh at Looney Tunes -- Unlikely Stories Mark V (FLASH)
October 2018 -- Tarragonia -- Crack the Spine (FLASH)
September 2018 -- Hollywood Café -- Mad Scientist Journal (FLASH)
September 2018 -- Girl in Nature -- A Story in 100 Words (FLASH)
September 2018 -- TurboLuxe SmartFridge 3000 -- Toasted Cake Podcast (FLASH)
March 2018 -- Midnight at the Organporium -- Heavy Feather Review Volume 7
March 2018 -- Justice for Mama Jaboley (2018 Robert Gover Story Prize) -- Best New Writing
February 2018 -- The Collector -- Goddesses of the Sea, Fantasia Divinity
December 2017 -- TurboLuxe SmartFridge 3000 -- Gathering Storm Magazine (FLASH)
December 2017 -- Sasabonsam -- Strange Horizons (Tangent Online Recommended Reading List 2017)
November 2017 -- Pumpkin Slice -- Speculative 66, Issue 14 (FLASH)
November 2017 -- Nickerson Interstellar Student Exchange DRAFT Behavioral Guidelines for the 2155 - 2156 Academic Year -- Toasted Cake Podcast (FLASH)
October 2017 -- You, Commuter -- Jellyfish Review (FLASH)
October 2017 -- F.M. Brown's Tropical Carnival Farm Fresh Fixins -- Every Day Fiction (FLASH)
October 2017 -- Aftermilk -- Booth 11 (FLASH Suite)
September 2017 -- Welcome to your Future with Chlorolyft -- Mad Scientist Journal (FLASH)
August 2017 -- The Rapture -- b(OINK) (FLASH)
August 2017 -- Yarn Galleon -- KYSO Flash (FLASH)
July 2017 -- Another Damn Cottage -- Spelk (FLASH)
April 2017 -- Where the Words Go -- SmokeLong Quarterly (FLASH)
April 2017 -- Aftermilk -- Booth (FLASH Suite)
February 2017 -- Bad Stock -- Bartleby Snopes Dialogue Only Contest (finalist)
November 2016 -- Death Sure Changes a Person -- Litbreak
November 2016 -- We Are Twenty-Six -- Chicago Literati
October 2016 -- The Real Stuff -- Way of the Buffalo Podcast
September 2016 -- The Bar Exam -- Stories from the Near Future -- Darkhouse Books
September 2016 -- Speculum Crede -- KZine
August 2016 -- The Device -- Visions V: Milky Way (Lillicat Publishers)
August 2016 -- The Cost of Security -- Crime & Mystery, Gothic Fantasy Series, Flame Tree Books
July 2016 -- Captain John's Passage -- Helios Quarterly (FLASH)
July 2016 -- Circe's Bicycle -- Defenestrationism (Short Story Contest Finalist)
June 2016 -- The Scent of Lions -- Procyon Science Fiction Anthology 2016
June 2016 -- Angels and Blueberries -- Complex Fairy Tales, Defenestrationism (FLASH)
May 2016 -- A Weaver's Tale -- The WiFiles
April 2016 -- After the Outing -- Litbreak Magazine
March 2016 -- The Other Side of the Universe -- Grasslimb Journal
February 2016 -- Welcome to Your Future with Chlorolyft -- Punchnel's (FLASH)
January 2016 -- The Real Stuff -- Strange Changes (Whortleberry Press)
December 2015 -- A Hipster Devil Christmas -- Barrelhouse Holiday Issue
December 2015 -- Open Letter to Museum Director in Charge of Brain Placement -- Indianola Review (FLASH)
November 2015 -- Nickerson Interstellar Exchange Behavioral Contract -- Dear Robot: An Anthology of Epistolary Sci-Fi (FLASH)
June 2015 -- The Collector -- Latchkey Tales 2014 Omnibus
February 2015 -- New Growth -- T. Gene Davis's Speculative Blog
November 2014 -- Aye, 'Twas Me -- Magical: An Anthology of Fantasy, Fairy Tales, and Other Fiction for Adults
August 2014 -- Fish Dreams -- The WiFiles (FLASH)
July 2014 -- The Collector -- Latchkey Tales, Elementals: Children of Water
June 2014 -- Wasted Wishes -- The Masters Review (FLASH)
June 2014 -- LoveLab Podcast: Interplanetary Edition -- Sci-Fi Romance Quarterly
June 2014 -- Washing Instructions -- Punchnel's (FLASH)
March 2014 -- The Real Stuff -- T. Gene Davis's Speculative Blog
February 2014 -- Happy Planet Nursery -- Up, Do: Flash Fiction by Women Writers (FLASH)
December 2013 -- The Female of the Species -- Luna Station Quarterly
September 2013 -- How to Eat a Hot Dog -- Litro Magazine (FLASH)
September 2013 -- Sunshine Earth Tours -- Toasted Cake Podcast (FLASH)
August 2013 -- The Bar Exam -- Silverthought Online
July 2013 -- Hollywood Cafe -- Punchnel's (FLASH)
June 2013 -- Sixty-Five Going on Zero -- The WiFiles
June 2013 -- Discard Pile -- GlassFire Magazine
June 2013 -- Everyone Likes Puppies, Right? -- Punchnel's (FLASH)
April 2013 -- The Mouse Whisperer -- Lorelei Signal
December 2012 -- The Great Purge -- Hogglepot Journal
Nonfiction
October 2024 -- Prompted: Deliberate Paradox as Creative Muse -- Writer's Chronicle
October 2024 -- Blue Gloves and Pink Roses -- Little Free Litmag
March 2024 -- Cascadia Field Guilde (review) -- Washington Independent Review of Books
February 2024 -- Plastic: A Novel (Review) -- Washington Independent Review of Books
January 2024 -- What it smelled like, after all that -- HAD
December 2023 -- The Pleasures of Reading -- Ambling Along the Aqueduct
November 2023 -- Shapeshifter -- Journal of Compressed Creative Arts
February 2023 -- Interview: Black Heritage in Horror -- Horror Writers Association
January 2023 -- I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself (Review) -- Washington Independent Review of Books
May 2021 -- The Atmospherians (Review) -- Washington Independent Review of Books
October 2020 -- The Midnight Circus (Review) -- Washington Independent Review of Books
October 2020 -- Soft 'n' Sheepish: No-More-Lyes Conditioning Crème Relaxer System -- Honorable Mention, Tom Howard/John H. Reid Fiction & Essay Contest 2020
September 2020 -- Loss Loop -- Jellyfish Review (FLASH)
June 2020 -- My Weird Quarantine Obsession: Knitting Lips -- Barrelhouse
December 2019 -- My Year of Expansive Pleasure -- Aqueduct Press Blog
December 2019 -- Sweet and Sour Christmas -- The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts (FLASH)
August 2019 -- Reflections on an MFA -- Café MFA
April 2019 -- A Flash of Difference at AWP -- Barrelhouse
March 2019 -- What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker (Review) -- Washington Independent Review of Books
January 2019 -- Your Guide to the Literary DMV (Part II) -- Café MFA
November 2018 -- Soft 'n' Sheepish: No-More-Lyes Conditioning Crème Relaxer System -- The Fiddlehead
September 2018 -- Teju Cole and Blind Spot -- Café MFA
September 2018 -- Your Guide to the Literary DMV -- Café MFA
September 2018 -- Literary Dessert Party -- Café MFA
May 2018 -- Mythical Magic: Interview with Gay Degani about Circe's Bicycle -- Heavy Feather Review
April 2018 -- The Five Superpowers of Nnedi Okorafor -- Cafe MFA
January 2018 -- First Month, First Line -- Washington Independent Review of Books
December 2017 -- Literary Afterlives -- Washington Independent Review of Books
November 2017 -- Free Writing Classes in the DMV -- Washington Independent Review of Books
October 2017 -- Taking a Knee at the Symphony -- Scoundrel Time
October 2017 -- The 40-year-old Gargoyle -- Washington Independent Review of Books
July 2017 -- 15 Classics Rebooted -- Washington Independent Review of Books
July 2017 -- Uncle Sam Doesn't Want You -- Writers Resist
July 2017 -- My Big Little Break -- Barrelhouse
June 2017 -- Smoke and Mirrors: An Interview with Tara Campbell -- SmokeLong Quarterly
June 2017 -- What a Con! -- Washington Independent Review of Books
May 2017 -- Book Blanket Bingo -- Washington Independent Review of Books
May 2017 -- Journey to Planet Write: In Praise of "What If?" -- Words in Place
April 2017 -- Todas las Voces: Diversify your Bookshelf at Duende District -- Washington Independent Review of Books
April 2017 -- Tarartomatic: One Woman's Artomatic Journey -- Café Américain
March 2017 -- Authors at Artomatic -- Washington Independent Review of Books
February 2017 -- Literary Fun in the DMV -- Washington Independent Review of Books
January 2017 -- Free Literary Fun -- Washington Independent Review of Books
December 2016 -- #NYGP: Not Your Gestational Puppet -- Stoneslide Media
December 2016 -- The More Things Stay the Same... -- Washington Independent Review of Books
October 2016 -- Crossover Sci-Fi: On Breaking Down Genre Walls and Writing for Everyone -- Punchnel's
October 2016 -- Oh-So-Long, Oh-So-Long! -- Washington Independent Review of Books
September 2016 -- My Accidental Journey -- Washington Independent Review of Books
August 2016 -- Local Reading Treasure Trove #2 -- Washington Independent Review of Books
July 2016 -- 39 Romance Novels the DC Lit Scene Needs Right Now -- Washington Independent Review of Books
July 2016 -- Why They're Killing Us: The Reality Behind Police Brutality -- Quail Bell Magazine
July 2016 -- The Invoice (Review) -- Washington Independent Review of Books
June 2016 -- Local Reading Treasure Trove -- Washington Independent Review of Books
June 2016 -- Homegoing (Review) -- Washington Independent Review of Books
June 2016 -- Universe, Multiverse, Miniverse -- Smokelong Quarterly
May 2016 -- 9 Tips for Running a Kick-ass Writing Group -- Washington Independent Review of Books
April 2016 -- #BlackHairBonus, #BlackHairBust -- Queen Mob's Teahouse
April 2016 -- 5 Steps to Finding your Perfect Match (in a Writing Group) -- Washington Independent Review of Books
March 2016 -- Doing Good in the 'Hood -- Washington Independent Review of Books
February 2016 -- All Written Up and Nowhere to Go -- Washington Independent Review of Books
February 2016 -- We Love You Charlie Freeman (Review) -- Washington Independent Review of Books
February 2016 -- DC Volunteer Lawyers Project -- The Daily Do Good
February 2016 -- Field Notes of an Agent Wrangler -- Washington Independent Review of Books
January 2016 -- SOHO Goes Full Steam Ahead -- The Daily Do Good
December 2015 -- The Man Without a Shadow (Review) -- Washington Independent Review of Books
December 2015 -- Who do I Sue, Abigail Fisher? -- Queen Mob's Teahouse
December 2015 -- The Relic Master (Review) -- Washington Independent Review of Books
November 2015 -- Food Recovery Network -- The Daily Do Good
October 2015 -- Peace thru Culture -- The Daily Do Good
October 2015 -- And West is West (Review) -- Washington Independent Review of Books
September 2015 -- On the Road with Del and Louise: A Novel in Stories (Review) -- Washington Independent Review of Books
September 2015 -- Volunteering for 826DC -- GOOD Community
August 2015 -- Secondhand Souls (Review) -- Washington Independent Review of Books
August 2015 -- Do It Like Esther Williams: SynchroSwim 2015 -- The Daily Do Good
August 2015 -- Painting Out Poverty -- The Daily Do Good
July 2015 -- Global Kids -- The Daily Do Good
July 2015 -- The Gracekeepers (Review) -- Washington Independent Review of Books
June 2015 -- Bread for the City -- Daily Do Good
June 2015 -- My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me (Review) -- Washington Independent Review of Books
May 2015 -- Casey Trees -- Daily Do Good
April 2015 -- Anacostia Riverkeepers -- The Daily Do Good
March 2015 -- Literacy and Education are the Keys to the Kingdom -- The Daily Do Good
March 2015 -- Swap.Meet -- The Daily Do Good
January 2015 -- The Rabbit Back Literature Society (Review) -- Washington Independent Review of Books
October 2014 -- The Back of the Turtle (Review) -- Washington Independent Review of Books
June 2014 -- The Bees (Review) -- Washington Independent Review of Books
February 2014 -- The Museum of Extraordinary Things (Review) -- Washington Independent Review of Books
July 2013 -- Sisterland (Review) -- Washington Independent Review of Books
June 2013 -- The Making of a Prince: Prince of Petworth -- NetSquared DC Blog
March 2013 -- The Pretty One (Review) -- Washington Independent Review of Books
December 2012 -- The Light of Amsterdam (Review) -- Washington Independent Review of Books
October 2012 -- Speaking Truth to Power: Salman Rushdie and Joseph Anton -- Potomac Review Blog
Poetry
March 2023 -- The prophecy unswaddled (reprint) -- Flipped Mitten Press (print or PDF)
March 2023 -- Vessels of the State (reprint) -- Flipped Mitten Press (print or PDF)
October 2023 -- At starbreak -- Eye to the Telescope, Issue 50
October 2023 -- Thread Remedy -- Apparition Lit, Issue 24
October 2023 -- Five billion rutabagas -- Bending Genres
August 2023 -- If I must be armed -- Unlikely Stories
July 2023 -- The slaughtering flood -- Star*Line 46.3
February 2023 -- The prophecy unswaddled -- HAD
February 2023 -- Power Dome -- The Rumpus
December 2022 -- Here -- Wizards in Space
December 2022 -- Prolapse -- Writers Resist
November 2022 -- In Which I Inherit My Father's Tendency to Minimize -- Typehouse Literary Magazine
October 2022 -- "Abortion Sonnet," "Rage Sonnet #12," and "When thistles war" -- Bourgeon Online
July 2022 -- The Snowy Owl -- Heavy Feather Review
May 2022 -- Because -- Moving Words Arlington
Fall 2021 -- In the City of Feasting Banshees -- Star*Line, Volume 44, Issue 4
May 2021 -- We have always lived in the castle -- The Metaworker
February 2021 -- Lamentations for the dead in a barbaric land -- This is What America Looks Like
November 2020 -- Because -- The Sunlight Press (Pushcart and Best of the Net nomination)
October 2020 -- Why I couldn't sleep until morning -- Beltway Poetry Quarterly
May 2020 -- Acceptable Risk -- Heavy Feather Review
February 2020 -- Bin ich dein Neger -- Booth (Pushcart nomination; 2nd place, Alternating Current Luminaire Prize 2004)
December 2019 -- Love and Multiple Sclerosis -- Winner, 2019 Better than Starbucks Sonnet Contest (Pushcart nomination)
December 2019 -- Nothing Ghost Can Stay and The Scarecrow -- Star*Line (Pushcart nomination)
November 2019 -- The Leg -- Anti-Heroin Chic
October 2019 -- The Gilded Cross -- Parody Poetry Journal
October 2019 -- Whenas undead my Julia goes -- Parody Poetry Journal
October 2019 -- Ghost Tree -- Heavy Feather Review
October 2019 -- I plodded lonely as a cloud -- Parody Poetry Journal
September 2019 -- Buzz Drunk -- Okay Donkey (Best of the Net nomination)
September 2019 -- Dad, 1948 -- Bacopa Literary Review
July 2019 -- Sonnet for Ella Watson -- Rigorous
May 2019 -- Vessels of the State -- Poets Reading the News
December 2018 -- Chatroom -- Quatrain Fish
December 2018 -- The Fish -- Bending Genres (video here)
October 2018 -- Goddammit, you gotta vote because -- Writers Resist
October 2018 -- In the New Republic -- Poets Reading the News
August 2018 -- Four-Cent Father -- Poets Reading the News (Pushcart nomination)
August 2018 -- Active 3-D printer situation -- Writers Resist
July 2018 -- 42,000 Matches -- Litbreak
June 2018 -- Shut up and dribble -- Heavy Feather Review #NoMorePresidents
June 2018 -- Undead sonnet 130 -- 2018 Rhyme On Adult Poetry Writing Contest (1st Prize Humorous Poem category)
May 2018 -- The Meadow -- Poets Reading the News
April 2018 -- After the Pedestal -- Quail Bell Magazine
January 2018 -- In contradiction to the commander's standards and wishes -- Poets Reading the News
November 2017 -- The birds are stealing my dreams -- Jersey Devil Press
September 2017 -- The reek of history -- FIVE:2:ONE
July 2017 -- Cauliflower -- Rigorous
May 2017 -- Showerbeer -- Quail Bell Magazine
March 2017 -- Freedom Bras -- District Lit
November 2016 -- American Beast -- Heavy Feather Review
November 2016 -- Breakfast of Champions/Mt. Pleasant Haiku/Park Road Painted Lady -- Queen Mob's Teahouse
September 2016 -- How to Feel Like a Hero -- Here Comes Everyone, Transition Issue
July 2016 -- Chatroom (or Untitled) -- Mt. Pleasant Poetry Project Collection
July 2016 -- When Peanut Butter Baby Ruled The World -- Zetetic: A Record of Unusual Inquiry
May 2016 -- Rendezvous at hills like white elephants -- Peregrine Journal, Volume XXX (30th Anniversary Edition)
March 2016 -- The Trouble with Pronouns -- For Harriet/Shine
September 2015 -- Had I the Type of Mind to Understand -- Page & Spine
November 2015 -- How long have I had these flowers? -- London Journal of Fiction
Satire/Commentary
November 2022 -- 16 Postcards I Didn't Mail to Voters the Next Morning -- Little Old Lady Comedy
September 2021 -- 2020 Summer Olympics Medal Count -- Writers Resist
January 2021 -- "Write, Edit, Act" -- Movable Type, Vol. 3
November 2020 -- Hey America, I fixed your headlines -- Rigorous
November 2020 -- Memorandum on Anarchy, Violence, and Destruction in American Cities -- Tribes
October 2020 -- 10 Ways to Avoid Confusing your Halloween Jack-o-Lantern with Donald Trump -- The Daily Drunk
August 2020 -- A Growing Crisis -- Erase the Patriarchy
June 2020 -- In Defense of Conservative Socialism: a CPAC Executive Huddle -- Variety Pack
April 2020 -- For the Bookshelf: Bestsellers in the Age of Trump -- Writers Resist
January 2020 -- May God Heal You -- Queen Mob's Teahouse
November 2019 -- I Saw You... -- The SissyFuss
October 2019 -- How to Not be "Racist" -- Writers Resist
October 2019 -- Pick-Up Lines for the Apocalypse -- Robot Butt
October 2019 -- Sexy Halloween: A Chronology -- Queen Mob's Teahouse
October 2019 -- Trump or Wile E. Coyote? A Current Events Quiz -- #NoMorePresidents (Heavy Feather Review)
September 2019 -- 12 Things We're Not Likely to Hear Anytime Soon in the United States -- McSweeney's Internet Tendency
May 2019 -- U.S. Government Form BC-451: Form to Procure Permission to Purchase Birth Control -- Writers Resist
January 2019 -- A Growing Crisis -- Heavy Feather Review
October 2018 -- Dr. Ford Wants to Proceed -- Barrelhouse, Fall of Man issue
July 2018 -- All Hail #NewConstitution -- The Establishment
March 2018 -- Youth Challenges of Yore -- FIVE:2:ONE #theslideshow
November 2017 -- Memo to the Executive Director of Enough Already with the Guns, USA (EAWG USA) -- Writers Resist
October 2017 -- This Again? Fucking-Pokemon-No! -- FIVE:2:ONE #theslideshow
May 2017 -- Seventeen "third world" solutions to first world problems -- DASH Literary Journal
November 2016 -- Bashar al Assad's Book Club Reading List -- Queen Mob's Teahouse
November 2016 -- Tree-lection 2016 -- Queen Mob's Teahouse
October 2016 -- Exit Interview for the Enlightened Jebediah Ramabishwalla's Communal Ashramporium and Resort -- The Rotting Post
September 2016 -- More bang-bang for your buck -- Zoetic Press
July 2016 -- H-A-N-D-S-U-P -- The Establishment
July 2016 -- Why don't you just... -- Queen Mob's Teahouse
June 2016 -- Casting Notes from the Lily White Pad of a Hollywood Exec -- McSweeney's Internet Tendency
June 2016 -- Woke Disney Song Lyrics -- The Establishment
June 2016 -- Fifteen phrases for the neighbor kid's birthday party or a Trump rally -- Queen Mob's Teahouse
September 2015 -- Speak American: Building a Better Country, One Word at a Time -- Queen Mob's Teahouse
Fall 2014 -- 10 Ways You Know You're a Mixed-Race Expat in a German-Speaking Country -- Cardinal Sins
April 2013 -- 10 Ways to Save Money on a Graduate Degree -- Punchnel's
Upcoming
Night Comes Down -- Fabulist Magazine
The snarling stars -- On Spec: The Canadian Magazine of the Fantastic
The Orb -- The Black Fantastic: Twenty Afrofuturist Stories, Library of America
Bin ich dein Neger? -- FOOTNOTE, Alternating Current
September 2025 -- An Offer You Can't Refuse, an MPTSP V11 Collection -- Mythic Picnic (Twitter)