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The Selkie Before Summer

My long poem “The Selkie Before Summer” is up at Liminality! It’s about a southern fur seal (or maybe an Australian fur seal) who leaves the ocean for the first time to rescue a lover and ends up...

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She is, there—amongst the Mango Trees—a Flytrap Garden

Here’s a flash prosetry piece of mine which appeared in Verse Kraken in 2014! The formatting in this inspired me to do “stone”, my twine poem. “She is, there—amongst the Mango Trees—a Flytrap Garden”...

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skins and seas

My short poem “Skin Ashore” is up at inkscrawl! It’s got a selkie and consonance and difficult life choices. And my longer poem “Singing Her Body Oceanic” is up at Liminality with mermaids and tattoos...

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sky and kin

My story “Tanith’s Sky” is one of 50 reprinted in The Best of Luna Station Quarterly: The First Five Years! This anthology’s only in paper form but you can still read “Tanith’s Sky” online here. It’s...

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Cucumber and Heartwood

Two things today! The latest episode of GlitterShip contains a new poem from me, “Cucumber”! It’s about a queerplatonic sword & sorcery adventuring couple fighting against the idea of “just...

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Heartwood

Sharp & Sugar ToothThe Kickstarter for Broad Knowledge: 35 Women Up To No Good and Sharp & Sugar Tooth: Women Up To No Good (edited by Joanne Merriam and Octavia Cade respectively) has...

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Last Ocean Tide Lost in Sand

I’ve got a new story out: “Last Ocean Tide Lost in Sand” is available in Capricious #11! It features an aromantic family, a depressed spaceship and a magical fox all seeking a better life on a planet...

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