I’m a rural-to-urban, working-class, feminist, trauma-informed poet. I enjoy exploring my identity through the lenses of home, family, security, and sexuality. My poems are often about the emotional texture of places, the quiet politics of daily life, and the space between memory and forgetting. I live, laugh, and walk in Southeast Portland, Oregon.
Education & Experience
I hold a Bachelor’s degree in English and Women’s & Gender Studies from Wheaton College in Massachusetts, where I received the Helen Meyers Tate Memorial Prize for Original Verse. My poetry has appeared in Wheaton’s print literary magazine, Rushlight, and the online literary journals Atticus Review and Curbside Splendor.
I haven’t submitted poems for publication since college (oops), as I’ve prioritized building my career and chosen family relationships. I’m on solid ground now and actively pursuing new opportunities.
I’ve been an invited reader at a handful of poetry readings organized by friends, and every once in a while, I show up at open mics hosted by Portland Poetry Slam and Slamlandia. In 2018, I self-published my first chapbook, Object Permanence, as my capstone project for the Independent Publishing Resource Center portfolio program. My latest long-form project was Summer in Portland, a series of poetic image captions for an album of the same title on Ultramarine Photo.
TL;DR: Just a girl waiting to be asked to read or write a poem. Inquire within my DMs on Instagram, LinkedIn, or Substack.
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