Fiction
“The Impossible Real.” Colorado Review. Forthcoming.
“Target Island.” The Common. Forthcoming.
Winner of the 2024 UTK Graduate Award in Fiction, judged by Joseph Cassara, author of The House of Impossible Beauties: “‘Target Island’ is a captivating story that explores the complicated history of Hawaiian colonization, the military bombing practices on Kahoʻolawe, and what it means to be an embodied human living within the finite boundaries of time. What is particularly skillful here is the story’s use of temporal overlaps to jump between the past, present, and future for the various generations in this family, with one main character as the central focus. Playing with narrative time like this is difficult to do, and it allows for the emotional notes in the story to resonate more deeply.”
“The All of It.” The Sewanee Review. Fall 2024.
“Dirty Dozens.” Witness Magazine. Fall 2023.
“(Partheno)Genesis.” Joyland. Fall 2022.
“After Ivan.” The Cincinnati Review. Spring 2022.
“Orfea”. Puerto del Sol. Spring 2022.
“Mosaic”. Baltimore Review. Winter 2022.
“Field Dressing.” Carve Magazine. Fall 2021.
Winner of the 2021 Raymond Carver Contest, judged by Leesa Cross-Smith, author of Whiskey & Ribbons: “I find ‘Field Dressing’ sad, but not in an empty way…in a full way because it’s such an evocative story…heavy and humid...almost claustrophobic with place and mood…wonderfully unflinching in its portrayal of how messy and difficult being a human is/can be."
Nonfiction
“On Yearning: An Essay Through Interviews.” Chicago Review of Books. Forthcoming.
“Marginalia: Sandra Cisneros.” The Sewanee Review. Forthcoming.
“Linger.” Quarterly West. Summer 2023.
“Compressions” & “Suspended.” The Spectacle. Spring 2023
“Reading Joan Didion Taught Me How to Not Write About Hawai‘i.” Catapult. Fall 2022.
• Featured as an Editors’ Pick by Longreads.
“Marble City Mourning.” Oxford American. Fall 2022.
“The White Lotus is supposed to be satire. Hawaiians deserve the last laugh.” Scalawag Magazine. Fall 2022.
• Featured as an Editors’ Pick by Longreads.
“All Hat, No Cattle.” Brevity. Summer 2022.
Poems
“Belly Up” & “Counting Chickens.” Prairie Schooner. Forthcoming.
“To Wear a Flower.” The McNeese Review. Summer 2021.
“Down Comes the Good Fairy.” Rough Cut Press. Fall 2020.
“Deconstructed.” Yes, Poetry. Winter 2020.
Reviews/Interviews
“Interview with Nini Berndt On Her Debut, There Are Reason For This.” The Rumpus. Forthcoming.
“Performance and the Commodification of Personality in Benedict Nguyễn’s Hot Girls with Balls.” Lux Magazine. Forthcoming.
“12 Writers Share Their Favorite Book Read in 2024.” Debutiful. Winter 2025.
“In The Edge of Water, A Prophecy Unravels a Nigerian Family.” Electric Literature. Winter 2025.
“See the Cover for Extinction Capital of the World by Mariah Rigg.” Debutiful. Fall 2024.
“Review: Every Drop Is a Man’s Nightmare by Megan Kamalei Kakimoto.” The Common. Summer 2023.
“On Living Through Grief, and (Re)Discovering Joy: A Review of K. Iver’s Short Film Starring My Beloved’s Red Bronco.” ANMLY. Winter 2023.
“Deadheading and Other Stories by Beth Gilstrap.” Grist, a Journal of the Literary Arts. Summer 2022.
Chapbooks/Anthologies
“Dirty Dozens.” Lambda Literary’s Emerge Anthology. Forthcoming.
All Hat, No Cattle. Inch Series, Bull City Press. Summer 2023.
Winner of the 2022 UTK Graduate Award in Creative Nonfiction, judged by CJ Hauser, author of the The Crane Wife: “This piece is crazy elegant and all the details about the natural world are at work to create a gorgeous and emotionally fraught landscape. I so admire the way the tone of this piece lets certain moments of difficult speak clearly, yet in such a matter of fact tone it makes them almost more poignant for the author’s playing at not being bothered by them. It’s also lovely line by line and dryly funny—there is an absolute generosity of specific moments and anecdotes and images in these pages. I felt myself drawing closer and closer to the speaker as the piece went on and was more invested in green onions than I could have ever imagined by the last beat.”
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