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How to Not Become the Breaking
This collection of short fiction, dedicated to the beasts I’ve loved and the monsters I’ve been, is linked by collision, fate, and the mythology we use to explain daily life.
A motley crew of magical creatures, orphans, and antiheroines is each called to question: what is love, what is inevitable, what is worth fighting for, and is fighting the answer? HTNBTB will be published by Gateway Literary Press in early 2025.
Pity She Didn’t Stay ‘Til the End
A remote island cabin. The back seat of a vintage convertible Mustang. A theme park with the tallest, fastest roller coaster in the world. An octopus tank at an aquarium. The Washington coast after a bomb cyclone. This chapbook of micro prose draws on a mix of the real, the unreal, and the surreal. Collectively, these stories linked by female characters who disappear or transform—sometimes to assert or discover their identity, sometimes in pursuit of (or by) love.
CivitaVeritas: An Italian Fellowship Journey
A Pacific Northwest writer on a fellowship journey explores the layers where people, architecture, food, language, and culture come together over time to tell a story. In this collection of essays, the author explores human connection and the experience of place in Civita di Bagnoregio, Italy, a unique hill town that dates back to Etruscan settlements.
UGLY ME
If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, where does self-worth reside? This was the central question behind UGLY ME, a multi-media sound installation that explored the interplay between appearance and self-worth through commercial fashion photography, selfies and spoken prose. The spoken-word installation included twelve poems collected in this chapbook, which played as a backdrop to dozens of comical personal images and large-scale typographic collage.
FERN ACADEMY PRIZE
My hybrid essay, “A Self She Can Continue Living With,” was awarded the inaugural Fern Academy Prize! More here about the prize.
INTERVIEW WITH JOYELLE MCSWEENEY
Read my conversation with poet Joyelle McSweeney about her newest book of poetry, Death Styles (Nightboat Press) in BOMB Magazine.
POETRY FOUNDATION
“Grave Unseriousness: Experimenting with Oulipo Constraints” describes the workshop I led as a visiting teaching artist and offers a creative prompt.
INTERVIEW WITH ERIN MALONE
Read my interview with poet Erin Malone in Crab Creek Review about her gorgeous new book, Site of Disappearance (Ornithopter Press).
TAHOMA LITERARY REVIEW/BEST AMERICAN ESSAYS
“The Ice Cave,” which first appeared in Issue 22 of Tahoma Literary Review, has been named a notable essay by Best American Essays 2023, edited by Vivian Gornick and Robert Atwan!
PANORAMA: THE JOURNAL OF TRAVEL
“Subtle Entanglements” is a hybrid essay on aging, death, partnership, and creative practice.
THE SMART SET
“[See:] Weed [Read:] Control,” is about artmaking, capitalism, dandelions, control, and Janet Jackson.
I SING THE SALMON HOME ANTHOLOGY
I have two concrete poems, collectively titled “(yubəč / chinook)” in this anthology edited by Washington State Poet Laureate Rena Priest and published by Empty Bowl Press.
BOMB MAGAZINE
I interviewed novelist Maud Casey about her gorgeously crafted and thought-provoking hybrid novel, City of Incurable Women.
THE BUREAU DISPATCH
“Ghost Phone” is a fragmented hybrid of memory, geolocation, natural entanglements, and a found talisman.
DIAGRAM
“Human Tears Are Slightly Basic” is a visual/text hybrid.
BULLSHIT LIT
“Guess What” is flash autofiction.
TINY MOLECULES
“The Martian’s Job, After All, Is To Interpret the World” is a micro about octopuses and how we hold onto each other.
MAGICAL MIDWEST ANTHOLOGY
My homage to Alex Dimitrov’s dreamy poetry, “I Wish I Could Write an Alex Dimitrov Love Poem”, was published in an anthology about the American Midwest by Olney Magazine.
“Lost in Space” COLLAGE/ERASURE POEMS
“Hi” and “Lost”, two erasure poem/visual collages from my Lost in Space erasures find a home in Issue 12 of CTRL-V Journal amongst other genre-bending work.“Dump”, an erasure of Aimee Mann’s song “Humpty Dumpty” appears in TAB Journal. “love” and “real bad”, published in Miracle Monocle, were made from “Pavlov’s Bell” and “Real Bad News”. “How It Goes”, made from “This Is How It Goes”, appears alongside two mixed media collages in Indianapolis Review.
THE EKPHRASTIC REVIEW
“Isis, or The Lover Learns by Losing” is an ekphrastic haibun-style essay inspired by Leonara Carrington’s painting “The Unicorns and the Ghost in the Wall”
HAD 💀💀💀
“V—GER” is inspired by true events…but with a sweeter ending.
SWEET LIT
“Midlife Conditional as Crustacean Morphology” is a concrete poem that takes a crab as its shell.
X-R-A-Y
“Omens Aside, I Kenned It Wouldn’t Last” is a haunted flash (auto)fiction with real-life underpinnings.
HARPY HYBRID REVIEW
“The Warrior” is a visual collage that arose as a response to Jungian exploration of the Shadow Self. “The Affair: Tracks 7 through 9” are three erasure poems made from song lyrics from Aimee Mann’s Lost in Space.
BREVITY CRAFT BLOG
“Against the Shitty First Draft.”
ISELE MAGAZINE
“Witch Hazel” is a flipped fairy tale: think Hansel and Gretel told from the middle-aged witch’s perspective. Longlisted for the Isele Short Fiction Prize, it also appears in the Best of Isele Anthology. (Iskanchi Press 2022).
SWEET TREE
“Gen X Goes Searching for Itself”
HAD 💀💀
“I Hope the Entwives Are Off Partying Somewhere Together”
THE DAILY DRUNK
“If It Comes to That, I’ll Do Us Both.”
SOUTH SEATTLE EMERALD
“The Harpy, or She Sought to Shatter Her Bovine Complaisance”
REFLEX PRESS
“Wild Kit Became Predictable in Middle Age”
SUPERSTITION REVIEW
“Delight is Such a Human Madness”
HAD 💀
“Trashy Gives It A Third Try” is an erasure poem found within text from The Stand by Stephen King.
THE SUNLIGHT PRESS
“Bypasses” Nominated for a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net.
SUPERSTITION REVIEW
“Some Menu Items Not Available”
THE CITRON REVIEW
“Mr. Fix-It”
POETRY NORTHWEST
“Searching for Home, Connection, and Place: A Conversation with Ruth Dickey”
CHANNEL MAGAZINE
“Now We Cannot Wait to Touch”
SEATTLE ARTS & LECTURES INTERVIEWS
On behalf of Seattle Arts & Lectures, I interviewed a number of Seattle-area poets and writers:
* Faces of SAL: Alicia Craven
* Faces of SAL: Lauri Conner
* Faces of SAL: Rebecca Hoogs
* Faces of SAL: Kip Greenthal
* The Seattle Children’s Broadsides Project with Sierra Nelson, Ann Teplick, Jenny Wilkson
* An Interview with Alison Stagner
* An Interview with Laura Da’ & Arianne True, Co-Mentors of Seattle’s Youth Poet Laureate Program
* An Interview with Aaron Counts and Matt Gano, Co-Founders of the Seattle Youth Poet Laureate Program
* An Interview with Ruth Dickey
* An Interview with Bitaniya Giday, Youth Poet Laureate
* An Interview with WITS Duo John McCartney and Arianne True
* An Interview with Kristen Millares Young
PAST TEN
“August 10, 2010”
TIMBER JOURNAL
“My Battery is Low and It’s Getting Dark”
HUNGER MOUNTAIN
“Muertos”
BALTIMORE REVIEW
“Tending Generations”
THE NORMAL SCHOOL
“Farewell, Cassini, How Far You’ve Come”
CRAB CREEK REVIEW
“Not Tonight”
THE MATADOR REVIEW
“The G N’ R Plan”
DUENDE
“Sixteen”
SUBMITTABLE BLOG
“What Rejection Taught Me About Doing the Work”
FRONT PORCH JOURNAL
“Swan Song”
TRUE STORY vol. 3
“Muzzled”
FLASH FICTION MAGAZINE
“Waiting in Line for the Train to Tomorrowland”
CRACK THE SPINE
“The Bright Side”
TWO HAWKS QUARTERLY
“Fledgling”
THE RUMPUS
“Thirty Days in Seattle's Central LibraryThe Rumpus”
WHAT WE RETURN - SOUND RECORDING
Voice artist Xe Sands recorded a gorgeous reading of my short story, “What We Return.” Listen here on Sound Cloud.
WORKS IN PROGRESS JOURNAL
“Into the Light” and an interview with Gabriela.
NEW LIT SALON PRESS
Check out this volume by New Lit Salon Press, which contains Gabriela’s Pushcart Prize-nominated short story, “Pas de Deux.” Available in print and digital editions. The anthology examines intersecting issues that affect the mental health of women, from physicality and sexuality to race, class and motherhood.