Forthcoming in Spring 2027: Braid by Braid, Knopf Books for Young Readers

Published Works

Chapbook Saraswati Takes Back the Alphabet, Newfound Press

“The Move,” On Spec Magazine #127 Vol. 34 No. 1 March 2024

“Aghnashini’s Secret,” Kinsman Quarterly’s Iridescence 2024

“The Protest,” The Margins November 2023

“The Fires Are Not Yet Contained,” “Rainstorm/the Calm before the Fires,” “Evacuation #4,” “Evacuation #5,” and “Reflection,” Cutleaf Journal

“Weathering,” Zocalo Public Square

“the west coast is on fire &,”  Plainsongs Winter 2023 (p 74)

“A Lake in Florida Suing to Protect Itself,”  Willowherb Review

“My Favorite Place” from Memoir of a Hippie Cyborg published in Solarpunk Magazine

“Goldilocks,”  Fantasy Magazine

“because plastic may become part of our DNA,” SAND 24

“My lungs recall unfondly,“ Jaggery

“Eternally Plugged” from Memoir of a Hippie Cyborg published in On Spec Magazine #118 Vol. 34 No. 4

“mother tongue,”  Kweli

“Consequences” was published in Strange Horizons and featured in a two-minute podcast hosted by Ciro Faienza

“Kali Doesn’t Do Ballet,” “someone bestowed the power,” & “Asha,” Rigorous

“My favorite messiah” published by Quiet Lightning in sPARKLE & bLINK

“speech migration,” “Abode,” “Epilogues,” and “Imaging,”  Colossus, Colossus: Home, Colossus: Freedom, and Colossus: Body Anthologies respectively

“Meditations: two poems,”  PCC Inscape

“The Ritual,” Oberon Poetry Magazine 

Awards

Finalist for Gloria Anzaldúa Poetry Prize, Newfound 

Merit Award for Atlanta Review’s International Poetry Competition

Semifinalist for 92Y Discovery Contest

Winner of Marion Hood Boess Haworth Prize for Fiction for Children & Young Adults

Finalist for New Vision Award, Tu Books