Three poems of mine achieved liftoff today in WHISPERS FROM BEYOND: A Showcase of Dark Poetry. Thanks to Crystal Lake Entertainment’s Joe Mynhardt and to Angela Y. Smith, Jamal Hodge, Maxwell Ian Gold, and Colleen Anderson for editorial feedback. The anthology features K.D. Bowers, Pixie Bruner, Kathryn Burkett, Chris P. Clay, Tom Deady, Faith Dincolo, AJ Franks, Tom Guldin, Kareem Hayes, Jem Kras, KB Nelson, Amabilis O'Hara, Michael H. Payne, Brian Richards, Rhea Rose, Melissa Stauffer, Roger Terry, KT Wagner, Dianthe West, and Rae Young.

My short story TAKESHI'S CAT is free to read at Decapitate magazine. TAKESHI'S CAT is an absurd mash up of beloved fairy tale The White Cat with housing justice and a Japanese game show. Many thanks to the editors at Decapitate, an art + social justice project of Third Estate Art in Chicago.

My short story TAKESHI'S CAT will appear online in Decapitate magazine on Sunday, December 10th, 2023. TAKESHI'S CAT is an absurd mash up of beloved fairy tale The White Cat with housing justice and a Japanese game show. Decapitate is an art + social justice project of Third Estate Art in Chicago.

Thanks to the Horror Writers Association, Sumiko Saulson, and Angela Yuriko Smith for organizing 2023’s Poets of the Dark interview series in honor of National Poetry Month. In my April 11th interview, I talk about children of war, neurodivergent writing rituals, my obsession with word lists and typography, gender minorities in STEAM, and just about everything else.

The Horror Writers Association presents their ninth annual Poetry Showcase, sharing the best in never-before-published dark verse. Edited by Angela Yuriko Smith with judges Lee Murray, Maxwell I. Gold and Frances Lu-Pai Ippolito, this year features the poetry of Stephanie M. Wytovich, Geneve Flynn and Naomi Simone Borwein along with other poems from Mary A. Turzillo, Christina Sng, Alessandro Manzetti, Victoria Nations, K. H. Vaughan and many more works of merit from the talented members of the Horror Writers Association. Cover art by Kyra Starr.