creative course of life

    • Youth & adult programming

    • Poetry and zines as memory work

    • Digital and traditional zine making

    • Contemporary poetry

    • Event hosting/facilitation

    • Curating BIPOC and transqueer literature

    • Black and transqueer histories

    • Authenticity reading

    • Generative workshops

    • DIY BODY, chapbook forthcoming from Sibling Rivalry Press, June 2026

    • (X)panse: A Zine of Trans Possibility, independently published zine made in collaboration with co-editor Iris Afantchao during BITPOCH Lab’s Humanist-in-Residence program, September 2025

    • “Reflection”, beestung magazine, issue 22, February 2025

    • “Ode to Spam”, Moonstruck: A zine celebrating Asian creatives in the American South, September 2024

    • “This Poem is a Performance”, new words {press}, print issue 4, summer 2024

    • “It Was His Chain”, Closet Cases: Queers on What We Wear, March 2020 (published under former name)

  • Black, Indigenous, and Trans of Color Histories Lab
    Humanist-in-Residence
    March 2025 - September 2025

    Abode Press Virtual Retreat
    Poetry Cohort
    June 2024

    Open Mouth Poetry Retreat
    June 2022

    University of Central Arkansas
    Bachelor of Arts in English
    2016

    • Arkansas Times Best Poet of the Year - 2025

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