Sample Poems
Inner Life | American Poetry Review (May/June 2025)
An Optimism | Poetry (June 2025)
Trans Study (Untitled 4: Facial Expression) | Academy of American Poets (October 2023)
My Life Closed Twice | Academy of American Poets (May 2023)
Meditations in an Emergency | reprinted by Split this Rock (January 2020)
Lucille’s Roaches | Poetry (December 2019)
Anti-Elegy | The Rumpus (April 2019)
[Black Feeling] | American Poetry Review (Sept/Oct 2018)
Cento Between the Ending and the End | Academy of American Poets (August 2018)
Everywhere We Look, There We Are | Vetch (Autumn 2016)
Essay on the Awkward/Black/Object | The Offing (November 2015)
Some Essays & Online Writing
Looking for Pauli, Pauli Murray’s Trans Poetics | QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking (Spring 2023)
Before Trans Studies (with Amy Marvin and Cassius Adair) | Transgender Studies Quarterly (August 2020)
I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free | Paris Review Online (June 2020)
Craft Capsules on Revising the Archive, Writing ‘After,’ Elegy, and The End | Poets & Writers (December 2019)
Trans, Feminism or Reading Like A Depressed Transsexual | Signs (Summer 2017)