Short Fiction & Poetry

First published in 2007 at 12 years old, my sixth grade class was asked to submit a short story to our newspaper, The Dayton Daily News, for their annual short story contest, and I won the regional contest in my age category for a piece entitled "Slow Dancing with Dad." Since then, I have continued to write creatively, which sparked my desire to write professionally, and have been composing and performing poetry and personal essays for the last eight years. ​

I have been published three times in University of Cincinnati's literary magazine, Short Vine, and in local zines including Dayton-native Cate McCall's independent zine, Better Left Unsaid. I've performed slam poetry since 2014 at various open mic nights, local house shows, with Queen City Poetry Slam, with Dayton Poetry Slam (which I hosted several times), and with a Cincinnati DIY grassroots performing arts series called Too Urban. I was most recently published in Cincinnati Poet Laureate Pauletta Hansel's project "Postcards from the Pandemic" in April of 2020. 

In my copious free time, I am currently working on a queer erotic poetry chapbook entitled Blush and intend to self-publish. 
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Published Works​

Poetry Performance

Queen City Poetry Slam 2014
Dayton Poetry Slam 2015
Better Left Unsaid Zine Reading 2017
Teaching poetry at a poetry workshop for Too Urban - December 2017