Writing

Fiction

“Rooted,” Prismatica Magazine, forthcoming March 2024.

“Drag Brunch,” After Dinner Conversation, November 2023.

“Pod,” The Offing, September 2023.

“The False Prophet of New Beginnings,” Tahoma Literary Review, March 2023.

“Four Endings to a Grindr Romance,” Taco Bell Quarterly, February 2023.

Read online. Nominated for Best of the Net 2023. Nominated for a Pushcart Prize 2023.

“The Reptile Room,” Leland Quarterly, December 2012.


Essays

“Erotic Bodywork,” Electric Literature, March 2024.

“Chicken Daddy,” New South, July 2023.

“Grande Caramel Macchiato,” Epiphany, June 2023.

“Scot’s Story,” The Places We’ve Been: Field Reports from Travelers Under 35, July 2013.

Latest posts

  • Erotic Bodywork

    Erotic Bodywork

    Check out my sauciest, shame-iest, most well-oiled essay yet at Electric Literature!

  • Drag Brunch

    Drag Brunch

    Read about “Drag Brunch” and find out where to buy a copy here!

  • Pod

    Pod

    Read my new sci-fi short story now on The Offing!

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