SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Find my complete list of publications in my CV, underneath 'About'.
Writing
The Forest
Release: April 28, 2021
Publisher: Riza Press
Five Stars on Readers' Favorite – "Full of evocative imagery...delivers a haunting walk through the poetic woods of humanity, of longing and estrangement."
My debut poetry collection is the first part of an exploratory journey through the collective experience of literature and art. Assimilated with a fate-driven poetic method using handwritten phrases on paper slips, The Forest is a three-act journey that invites the reader into itself as it explores what it means to be human and how we live and exist. The collection is the inspirational basis of an immersive visual and literary art installation of the same name with Houston-based artist Mari Omori debuting in 2022.
Purchase: Amazon (paperback); Amazon (eBook); Barnes and Noble (eBook)
Venus Rising: Musings & Lore from Women Writers
Release: March 16, 2022
Publisher: Our Galaxy Publishing
Published: "Her Crown," "Overthrow," and "House of a Human" (poetry and prose)
Venus Rising: Musings & Lore from Women Writers is a women's anthology whose proceeds benefit FemTruth Youth's non-profit efforts to bring their three-act play, "Gaslit," to communities to raise awareness in the reimagining of school curriculum and culture inclusivity of menstrual pain.
Purchase: Amazon
Poetic Reveries Magazine, Issue 3
Winner, Christmas Short Story Competition
Release: December 4, 2021
Publisher: Poetic Reveries
Published: "'Letter to the Boy at the Grocery Store"
Short story "Letter to the Boy at the Grocery Store" was published in Poetic Reveries' third issue as the selected winner of the Instagram poetry curator and publsher's Christmas Short Story Competition in 2021.
Read Now: Poetic Reveries
Writing from the Inside: My Parallel Storytelling Journey with Bo Burnham
Release: November 16, 2021
Publisher: Capsule Stories (blog)
Writing from the Inside details the parallel journeys of creation and storytelling in my development of The Forest and Bo Burnham's creation and release of Inside, his award-winning Netflix special.
Read Now: Capsule Stories
Pages Penned in Pandemic: A Collective
Release: January 18, 2021
Publisher: Kayla King Books
Published: "Eat" and "The Sad End of a Rainbow" (poetry)
Pages Penned in Pandemic: A Collective, an anthology from editors Kayla King and Justin Maher, is a culmination of the works writers have created amidst the spectrum of emotions created by the global COVID-19 pandemic.
Contributors include Anthony Leiner, Ash Slade, Corey Miller, Daphne Daugherty, John Lambremont, Sr., Kevin Lankes, Louis Faber, Olaitan Humble, Pam R. Johnson Davis, and Shannon Frost Greenstein and more.
Purchase: Kayla King Books