publications

2 collab pieces in Trash Wonderland Creature? Critter? Cryptid? Issue Out Now

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Never Angeline Nørth and I have two little weirdos in the latest issue of TRASH WONDERLAND: Creature? Critter? Cryptid?

We were so excited for this little baby we whipped up “IN WHICH A SEX CHANGE SURGEON IS CAUGHT ON FILM IN A BLURRY PHOTO LATER MAILED TO A FRINGE NEWSPAPER.”

Give it a read, along with “COMMON BEHAVIORS OF THE NORTH AMERICAN WETLANDS TRANSSEXUAL, AN UNFINISHED ESSAY BY HARRY BENJAMIN I THINK” and all the other weird little friends we made along the way.

Thanks to editor Kit Lascher for supporting our weird little project with theirs!

a sketchy mothman in black on a pink background with text reading Creature? Critter? Cryptid? Out October 31st transwonderland.com

TRAVELING now available from Hyacinth Girl Press!

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large-cover-travelingYesterday was Traveling‘s book birthday at Hyacinth Girl Press. It was a very fun day of celebrating this weird little baby of gender exploration here on Earth and in the greater astral plane.

I am beyond thrilled with the cover and design of this chapbook. Tess Wilson did the editorial work. She is amazing. Huge thanks to her and Margaret Bashaar. The book and cover design is by Sarah Reck, and the cover art is by Tristin Miller.

You can hear me read from the title sequence here. Sequences from the chap are available online at Menacing Hedge and Wicked Alice.

Traveling is now available for order!

http://hyacinthgirlpress.com/yearfive/traveling.html

Three poems from Imaginary Kansas at Melancholy Hyperbole

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melancholy hyperboleThree poems from Imaginary Kansas, forthcoming from dancing girl press in spring/summer 2015 went up at Melancholy Hyperbole: Poetry About Longing on March 12. I love longing. Well, my poems love longing. Or, I’ve always said that Imaginary Kansas fragments and queers longing. So.

The micro-poems featured are “[In this one, I imagine myself as a],” “Why can’t we be married and live in the farmhouse your parents bought on a whim?,” and “Undressing in front of your photograph in the evening.” These are some of the tiniest fragments in the project and, especially in the case of “Why can’t we…” some of my (terrifying) favorites. I’m really excited by the format of Melancholy Hyperbole, which invites direct commenting from readers. What a thrill!

What Toast? Reprinted at Cahoodaloodaling

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Cahoodaloodaling has published a themed issue entitled The Animal Becomes Us. The call asked for a wide interpretation of the theme, and I sent Milquetoast’s origin story, the preface piece of Theater of Parts. This piece was originally printed in Gargoyle, and I’m happy for it to share space here with other beasts, including a piece from Sally Deskins and Laura Madeline Wiseman. You can read “What Toast?” here.

Chapbook Imaginary Kansas forthcoming from dancing girl press

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In Spring of 2015, dancing girl press will publish my chapbook Imaginary Kansas. This project has gone through many iterations, and I’m so glad that it has found a home with dancing girl. I’m a big admirer of dgp and editor Kristy Bowen, and I’m honored to be among the catalog of dancing girl authors.

Imaginary Kansas is a project that fragments and queers longing. It ruminates on heteronormativity and desire. Imaginary Kansas existed as an artist’s book object in an edition of one in the Call and Response exhibit Parallel Lives during the 2013 Fall for the Book festival. I’m excited to see its next life.