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          Publications & Awards

          Fiction:

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          Grandma What Big Teeth,

          PANK, (forthcoming)

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          House Keeper,

          F(r)iction #18, 2021 (forthcoming)

           

          Where Water Runs, 

          TSRonline, 2018

          "...Father cut the snake in half. Two writhing serpent ends. The ends kept moving. I watched them. They were curling a cursive which I could not yet read." 

           

          George R.R. Martin Miskatonic Scholarship

          Odyssey Writing Workshop, 2018

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          Poetry:

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          Instructions for Killing Girls,

          LI Literary Journal, 2017

          "...gnash down, gnaw on, 'Grandma, what big teeth you have--' Pull apart, Rip apart with 'if you hadn’t been wearing red.'..."

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          The Apple,

          Typehouse Literary Magazine, 2017

          "My beautiful mother pricked her finger sewing. The blood pilled, beaded, beetle-eyed, dropped into a jar of venetian ceruse. How pretty, she thought. Like lips on snow. I hope my daughter looks like that. Then she died, because of the ceruse..."

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          Chronic, 

          Noble / Gas Qtrly, 2016

          "...You stand there with a knife inside you. This is not your hand. You do not stab yourself..." 

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