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I write poetry, fiction, criticism, and screenplays. My writing has appeared in poets.org, Los Angeles Review of Books, Cleveland Review of Books, Screen Slate, and The Guardian. My first chapbook is Monsoons (2024, Bottlecap Press). I am working on a novel.

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essays & criticism

1. stem article in the guardian
2. clambering for metaphor in los angeles review of books
3. fish sauce metonymy: on vi khi nao's the italy letters in cleveland review of books
4. madam satan in screen slate
5. the art of un-war in screen slate

poetry

1. monsoons, a chapbook via bottlecap press
2. altars for hetairai, poets.org
3. the last party, up the staircase quarterly
4. firsts, SUNHOUSE
5. chorus, KI
6. spine poem, e.ratio
7. 4 poems, DIAGRAM
8. other poems in no, dear

fiction

1. fiction in babel between us, a literary experiment in digital ethnography

misc

1. dead zines (@deadzines on twitter)
2. an alternative rice purity test