Poet | Essayist | Advocate

I engage in disability-informed community building through poetry, storytelling, support, and education.

Poetry: As a nonbinary, queer poet and cancer survivor, I live and write at the intersection of complex disability and chronic illness. My work is shaped by immune system dysregulation (autoimmunity and primary immunodeficiency), post-viral sequelae (dysautonomia, atrial fibrillation, and other heart issues), neurodivergence (attention, communication, and sensory-processing differences), and mental-health issues (bipolar and trauma, both of which stem in part from developmental abuse).

My debut full-length collection, Crude, is forthcoming in June 2027 from Nine Mile Press as part of the Propel Disability Poetry Book Series. My chapbooks include Love and Cruelty (Meat for Tea, forthcoming in 2026), No Sea Here (Moon in the Rye Press, 2026), Toward What Is Awful (YesYes Books, 2013), In the Space Where I Was (Hyacinth Girl Press, 2012), and The Spare Room (Blood Pudding Press, 2009).

My work has appeared in The Adroit Journal, New Letters, Muzzle, Barrow Street, CALYX Journal, and elsewhere.

Advocacy:I’m an author at Mad in America and the peer facilitator at Greater Zion Support Alliance, which I co-founded. I’ve completed NAMI’s peer-to-peer training and DBSA’s peer facilitator training and am currently applying to earn my certified peer specialist credential in Utah.

Education: I teach poetry workshops, work with poets one-on-one, and engage in creative outreach in my community. My teaching experience includes serving in Literacy AmeriCorps; serving as a writing and literacy volunteer in Washington State’s Children’s Home Society; teaching poetry in an academic after-school program in the Walla Walla, Washington, school district; and teaching poetry to seniors at Walla Walla Community College through its community education program.

My career was in scientific, medical, and health writing. My work has been published by esteemed organizations, including the American Academy of Family Physicians and Seattle’s Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center.

Personal Details: I’m a weaver whose focus is on tapestry, Saori, and a combination of the two. Saori is a Japanese approach to weaving that’s inclusive and affirming. It focuses on the act of weaving as the process of knowing and expressing the self in and through the cloth. I see endless possibilities for weaving as both a form of expression and a means for healing. It’s like poetry in that way.

I live in Toquerville, Utah, near Southern Utah’s wildlands outside Zion National Park, where I learn from the birds and cliffs who are my sky/air and earth/skin.

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