In addition to my work in academia, I am also a creative writer. I write poetry, fiction, and even a little creative non-fiction. My work is mostly speculative/fantastic, and I often draw on my academic interests for inspiration. My work has been nominated for the Rhysling Award, the Dwarf Stars Award, the Pushcart Prize, the Washington Science Fiction Association’s Small Press Award, and the Best of the Net Anthology.
I am represented by Adriana Stimola at Stimola Literary Studio – please reach out to her for any queries!
Books:
Fairylore
Co-written with Sara Cleto
(Sterling Ethos)
Forthcoming Fall 2025
Poetry Publications:
“The Knife She Wouldn’t Use” – poem
Co-written with Sara Cleto
Eternal Haunted Summer
Summer Solstice 2024
“Silver, Sun, Dark” – poem
Co-written with Sara Cleto
Corvid Queen
2024
“Rose Wednesday” – poem
Co-written with Sara Cleto
Crow Cross Keys
September 2023
“Inclined to Magic” – poem
Co-written with Sara Cleto
Crow Cross Keys
August 2023
“What Do We Have” – poem
Co-written with Sara Cleto
Eternal Haunted Summer
Summer Solstice 2023
“What They Love Now”
Co-written with Sara Cleto
Uncanny Magazine
Issue #51
March 2023
“We are Twelve” – poem
Co-written with Sara Cleto
Gingerbread House
Issue #52
2022
“Dreams Vermilion” – poem
Co-written with Sara Cleto
Corvid Queen
2022
“The Robber’s House Is Rigged” – poem
Co-written with Sara Cleto
Riddled with Arrows
Issue #5.3, “Blood and Bone”
2022
“Snow Maidens” – poem
Co-written with Sara Cleto
Enchanted Conversation (now The Fairy Tale Magazine)
2022
“The Witch Hares” – poem
Co-written with Sara Cleto
Eternal Haunted Summer
Winter Solstice 2021
“New Growth” – poem
Co-written with Sara Cleto
Shadow Atlas: Dark Landscapes of the Americas
(Hex Publishers, 2021)
Edited by Carina Bissett, Hillary Dodge, and Joshua Viola
“She Needs” and “The Acoustics of Dissenters” – poems
Co-written with Sara Cleto
Sycorax
Issue #5, 2021
“Frau Trude in Suburbia” – poem
Co-written with Sara Cleto
Wyrd & Wyse
“Witchlore,” 2021
“Twelve” – poem
Co-written with Sara Cleto
Star*Line
Issue # 44.4, 2021
“Spells of Cast Iron” – poem
Co-written with Sara Cleto
Enchanted Conversation (now The Fairy Tale Magazine)
2021
“The Language of the Stars” – poem
Co-written with Sara Cleto
Eternal Haunted Summer
Summer Solstice 2021
“Larkspur and Henbane” – poem
Co-written with Sara Cleto
Arcana
(Poise and Pen Publishing, 2021)
Edited by Rhonda Parrish
“Dancing With the Faerie King” – poem
Co-written with Sara Cleto
Enchanted Conversation (now The Fairy Tale Magazine)
Winter 2021
“Silver and Gold Down To Me” – poem
Co-written with Sara Cleto
From the Farther Trees
“The Green Lace Witch” – poem
Co-written with Sara Cleto
Corvid Queen
“The Owl Wife” – poem
Co-written with Shveta Thakrar
Polu Texni
“The Witch of the Garden of Jewels” – poem
Sycorax Journal
Issue #3
“How to Steal a Selkie Skin” – poem
Sycorax Journal
Issue #1
“The Queen of the Roses Sings to Her Sisters” and “The Winter Cathedral” – poems
Faerie Magazine
Winter 2017
“Lessons with the Green Witch” and “Two Sisters” – poems
Wyrd and Wyse
Issue #1
“An Announcement” – poem
Co-written with Sara Cleto
Uncanny Magazine
Issue #19
Nominated for the 2018 Short Poem Rhysling Award
“The Two Nightingales” – poem
Co-written with Sara Cleto
NonBinary Review
Issue #14: The Tales of Hans Christian Andersen
“Persephone Rising” – poem
Sihaya and Co’s Seasonal Subscription Boxes
Spring 2017
“Waking” – poem
Co-written with Sara Cleto
Liminality: A Magazine of Speculative Poetry
Issue #10: Winter 2016/2017
Nominated for the 2018 Long Poem Rhysling Award
“Wearing My Old Woman’s Skin” – poem
Remixt Magazine by Julia Rios
Volume 1, Issue 1: Move [In/On/Out]
Issue Edited by Layla Al-Bedawi
“Remembrances of McQueen’s Final Runway Show (Unstaged)” – poem
Co-written with Sara Cleto
Recompose
Issue #1: Tropospheric Scofflaw
“Snow and Rose” – prose poetry
Co-written with Sara Cleto
Les Cabinets des Polytheistes:
An Anthology of Pagan Fairy Tales, Fables, and Nursery Rhymes
(Bibliotheca Alexandrina, 2016)
Edited by Rebecca Buchanan
“Mother-Doll” – poem
Apex Magazine
Issue #78
“Ink” – poem
Liminality: A Magazine of Speculative Poetry
Issue #4
“The Crane Wife” – poem
Through the Gate
Issue #5
“Year Forty-Nine” – haiku poem set
Mirror Dance
Autumn 2014 Issue
“L’Unicorne Qui S’Endort” – poem
inkscrawl
Issue #7
“Song from the Islands of Sirenum Scopuli” – poem
Liquid Imagination
Issue #20, February 2014
“Rep/ercussions (Carmina)” – poem
Stone Telling
Issue 10, “Body,” January 2014
“Skin” – poem
Co-written with Sara Cleto
Ideomancer
Volume 12, Issue 4, December 2013
“WereMoonMother” – poem
Mythic Delirium
Issue 0.2, October-December 2013
“Diana Remembers Actaeon” – poem (reprint)
Beyond the Pillars: An Anthology of Pagan Fantasy
(Bibliotheca Alexandrina, 2013)
Edited by Ashley Horn
“Speech of the Witch of the End” – poem
Ideomancer
Volume 12, Issue 3, September 2013
“Alice Underground” – poem
Niteblade
Issue 25: September 2013
“The Lady of St. Mark’s Place” – poem
Cabinet des Fees: Scheherezade’s Bequest
Volume 1, Issue 1, 2013 –
As You Wish: The Loathly Lady Issue
“Her Bones in My Hands” – poem
Rose Red Review
Issue 4, Spring 2013
“Loveless (I Am the Snow Queen)” – poem
Rose Red Review
Issue 4, Spring 2013
Nominated for the 2013 Best of the Net Anthology
“The Blue Hour” – poem
Futuredaze: An Anthology of YA Science Fiction
(Underwords Press, 2013)
Edited by Hannah Strom-Martin and Erin Underwood
“The Second Law of Thermodynamics” – poem
Co-written with Sara Cleto
Niteblade
September 2012 Issue
Nominated for the 2012 Pushcart Prize
“The Mermaid’s Winter Song” – poem
inkscrawl
Issue #4, August 2012
Nominated for the 2013 Short Poem Rhysling Award
Nominated for the 2013 Dwarf Stars Award
“Diana Remembers Actaeon” – poem
Eternal Haunted Summer
Spring Equinox 2012 Issue
“Grateful” – poem
Cabinet des Fees: Scheherezade’s Bequest
Issue 14, December 2011
“Rose Red III” – prose poetry/photograph piece
The Sarah Lawrence Literary Review
2007
“Absorbed” – poem
Magpie Magazine
Issue 1, Summer 2006
Fiction Publications:
“Chasing Ghosts – E is for Emily” – flash fiction
Co-written with Sara Cleto
G is for Ghost
(Poise and Pen Publishing, 2021)
Edited by Rhonda Parrish
“The Shifting Space Between Dreams and Waking” – flash fiction
From the Farther Trees
“The Thirteenth Tale” – short story
Co-written with Sara Cleto
Enchanted Living
Spring 2020
“N is for Neverland” – flash fiction
F is for Fairy
(Poise and Pen Publishing, 2019)
Edited by Rhonda Parrish
“V is for Victory” – flash fiction
E is for Evil
(Poise and Pen Publishing, 2018)
Edited by Rhonda Parrish
“C is for Catechism” – short story
D is for Dinosaur
(Poise and Pen Publishing, 2017)
Edited by Rhonda Parrish
“Documentation Related to Case #688” – short story
[“P is for Photography”]
C is for Chimera
(Poise and Pen Publishing, 2015)
Edited by Rhonda Parrish
“The Sea Does Not Need Me” – flash fiction
Cabinet des Fees: Scheherezade’s Bequest
Volume 1, Issue 2 –
Something Rich and Strange: Tales from the Sea
“A is for Aurora” – flash fiction
B is for Broken
(Poise and Pen Publishing, 2015)
Edited by Rhonda Parrish
“Q is for Queen” – flash fiction
A is for Apocalypse
(Poise and Pen Publishing, 2014)
Edited by Rhonda Parrish
“The Second Mrs. Chapman” – flash fiction
The Rogues Gallery:
The Illustrated Police News Anthology
(Firbolg Publishing, 2014)
Edited by Alex Scully
“The Shifting Space Between Dreams and Waking” – flash fiction
Scareship Magazine
December 2012 Issue
“The Song of the Tower” – flash fiction
Scareship Magazine
September 2012 Issue
“Inside the Wolf” – flash fiction
Mirror Dance
Winter 2011 Issue
“Kitsune/Fox” – short story
Jabberwocky Magazine
Issue 7, August 2011
“Rain Dancer” – short story
Magpie Magazine
Issue 1, Summer 2006
“Knots in My Hair” – short story
EMG Zine
“Mischief” Issue, July 2006
“The Embrace” – short story
Dark Reveries Magazine
March 2006
“Opal” – short story
“Letter to Alejandra” – short story
Finery Magazine
Issue 3, February 2006
Non-Fiction Publications and Non-Academic Reviews:
“Enchanted Hinds and Cursed Stags: Fairy Tales of Deer and Transformation”
Co-written with Sara Cleto
Enchanted Living
Summer 2024
“The Mysterious Enchantment of Dark Academia”
Co-written with Sara Cleto
Enchanted Living
Spring 2024
“‘Cloaked in Silver Frost’: Magical Winter Wear”
Co-written with Sara Cleto
Enchanted Living
Winter 2023
“Gothic Fairy Tales”
Co-written with Sara Cleto
The Fairy Tale Magazine
Winter 2023
“Witches in Love”
Co-written with Sara Cleto
The Fairy Tale Magazine
Fall 2023
“Shakespeare’s Secret Witch”
Co-written with Sara Cleto
Enchanted Living
Fall 2023
“Love, Loss, and the Mermaid”
Co-written with Sara Cleto
The Fairy Tale Magazine
Summer 2023
“‘Green Cloth, Inlaid with Wild Flowers’: Magical Summer Wear”
Co-written with Sara Cleto
Enchanted Living
Summer 2023
“‘They always held each other by the hand’: The Love Between Sisters”
Co-written with Sara Cleto
The Fairy Tale Magazine
Spring 2023
“‘What ever thou will’st thy will may do’: Glinda the Good Witch”
Co-written with Sara Cleto
Enchanted Living
Spring 2023
“Gothic Fairy Tales”
Co-written with Sara Cleto
Enchanted Living
Winter 2022
“Our Top Five Literary Witches”
Co-written with Sara Cleto
Enchanted Living
Fall 2022
“‘For Their Sorceries’: The Sirens of Folklore and Literature”
Co-written with Sara Cleto
Enchanted Living
Summer 2022
“Magic Spells and Tangled Paths: What are Fairy Tales and Why Do They Matter?”
Co-written with Sara Cleto
Enchanted Living
Spring 2022
“Fairy Tales and Decadence: Diamonds, Pearls, and Orange Trees”
Co-written with Sara Cleto
Enchanted Living
Winter 2022
“‘I Shall Go Into a Hare’: Rabbits and Witches in Folklore”
Co-written with Sara Cleto
Enchanted Living
Fall 2021
“Liminality and the Realm of Pure Possibility”
Co-written with Sara Cleto
Enchanted Living
Summer 2021
“Invocation to Titania”
Co-written with Sara Cleto
Enchanted Living
Spring 2021
“L.E.L.: The Forgotten Fairy Queen of the Romantics”
Co-written with Sara Cleto
Enchanted Living
Winter 2021
“Top 5 Feminist Ghosts”
Co-written with Sara Cleto
#FolkloreThursday
2020
“Branches and Wings: Making a Nature Altar”
Co-written with Sara Cleto
Enchanted Living
Fall 2020
“The Magical Cats of Fairy Tales”
Co-written with Sara Cleto
Enchanted Living
Summer 2020
“At Home in the Forest: The Fairy-Tale Dwellings of Witches and Wanderers”
Co-written with Sara Cleto
Enchanted Living
Winter 2020
“The Top 5 Magical Women of Arthurian Legend”
Co-written with Sara Cleto
#FolkloreThursday
2020
“Seeking the Witch: The Tales of the Brothers’ Grimm”
Co-written with Sara Cleto
Enchanted Living
Fall 2019
“Fire and Fur: The Many Guises of the Grimms’ Fairy-Tale Witches”
Co-written with Sara Cleto
#FolkloreThursday
2019
Introduction to Sirens
Co-written with Sara Cleto
(World Weaver Press, 2016)
Edited by Rhonda Parrish
Review: Songs for Ophelia
by Theodora Goss (poetry)
co-written with Sara Cleto
Strange Horizons
2015
Introduction to Fae
Co-written with Sara Cleto
(World Weaver Press, 2014)
Edited by Rhonda Parrish
Review: The Moment of Change:
An Anthology of Feminist Speculative Poetry
edited by Rose Lemberg (poetry)
Bull Spec
Issue 8/9
Review: Unruly Islands
by Liz Henry (poetry)
Stone Telling
Issue 8, August 2012
JOMA Retrospective
A Personal Reflection on The Journal of Mythic Arts
Stone Telling
Issue 5, Fall 2011
Reprints:
“Twelve” – poem (reprint)
Co-written with Sara Cleto
All in Among the Briars
(Benefit Anthology, 2024)
Edited by Julia Rios
“The Language of Stars” – poem (reprint)
The Best of Eternal Haunted Summer
(Sigil House Productions, 2023)
Edited by Rebecca Buchanan
“The Green Lace Witch” – poem (reprint)
Co-written with Sara Cleto
Enchanted Living Magazine
2020
“An Announcement” – poem (reprint)
The 2018 Rhysling Anthology
(SFPA, 2018)
Edited by Linda D. Addison
“Waking” – poem (reprint)
The 2018 Rhysling Anthology
(SFPA, 2018)
Edited by Linda D. Addison
“WereMoonMother” – poem (reprint)
Mythic Delirium Anthology
(Mythic Delirium Books, 2014)
Edited by Mike and Anita Allen
“The Mermaid’s Winter Song” – poem (reprint)
The 2013 Rhysling Anthology
(SFPA, 2013)
Edited by John C. Mannone
“The Mermaid’s Winter Song” – poem (reprint)
The 2013 Dwarf Stars Anthology
(SFPA, 2013)
Edited by Stephen M. Wilson & Linda D. Addison
“Knots in My Hair” – short story (reprint)
The Art of the Business of Fantasy Art
(EMG-Zine, 2007)
Edited by Ellen Million
Other::
“My Cat is a Collector of Stories” – poem
Poetry for Cats – Poets Supporting the Great Lakes Bengal Rescue
Project by Erin Underwood
Luscinia/Nightingale
Self-Published Zine
June 2005
