news
zine club reminder: i started a zine club to pull in a bit of extra income! $2 per month ($6 quarterly) gets you 3-5 zines every quarter. i am a bit behind on mailing the first batch because of some major life changes, but plan to do so by the end of this month!
published essay: “On the notion that a picture is worth a thousand words” in Sage Cigarettes
published poem: “pastoral on cymbalta” in Dishsoap Quarterly
published piece: “libations” in MENACE Issue 1
published prose: “roaches” in Lunchbreak Review
published poem: “instagram user @mienfoofighters was onto something” in stony run
published poem: “self-portrait as baltimore” in Stanchion Issue 19
published poem: “if bpd could talk” in manyworlds.place Issue 9
botn finalist: my poem “a photo bro asked me a patronizing question in 2016 and i am still thinking about it” (orig. pubbed in Split Lip Magazine) was a Best of the Net 2025 finalist!
botn nomination: i’ve received a nomination for the 2026 Best of the Net anthology from petrichor, for my piece “journal (take #27)” (and a few other nods i cannot talk about yet…)
notes
i’ve written about this in the kinds of poems that stay locked away forever, but when i turned 29 earlier this year, my boss told me good luck. turns out i needed it—this year so far has tested me in some of the most brutal ways i could have imagined, and even a few i could not have imagined. it’s taught me who my friends are, who really supports me, and who doesn’t have my back at the end of the day. still, i finally feel like the ball is starting to roll downhill instead of this sisyphean struggle i have been caught in for months now. to those who have been there for me, especially over the course of the last month or so, i deeply appreciate this. my door is always open for you.
sneak peek
behold, some photographs i’ve taken this summer and am very proud of!
friends
call: underscore_magazine reopens for city-themed submissions on 9/1
release: fifth wheel press’ last single-author collection until 2027, in the aftermath by Jessica Nirvana Ram, is now available for preorder
current events
here’s what i’ve been reading, watching, listening to, and playing.
books: Home Theater by Rosanne Singer, a note that will shatter the way things are by sterling-elizabeth arcadia, Phantasmagossip by Sara Mae
tv: Love Island: Beyond the Villa
games: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
the part where i ask for money
i have reopened paid subscriptions. while the pool will always be 100% free, i’m frankly in a place where i could use any additional income i can get right now. if you’d prefer not to ferry your money through substack (i get it), you can also set up a recurring donation on ko-fi or send me a tip (scroll to the bottom for payment links).