Current

Memoir | A book-length manuscript grappling with my daughter’s stillbirth

TEMPER Press | A publishing project co-founded with Jourdain Barton and Geoffrey Billetter that was dubbed “a new home for experimental literature” by Chicago Reader

Cannibale | An imprint of TEMPER that leverages an intense, frenetically creative friendship into a means of production; forthcoming publications include a collection of object lessons presented as intimate conversations and reflections on writerly pedagogy

Bookmaking | Design, typesetting, and binding

Past

Slight | A book comprising six compressed fictions indebted to the curiosities and cruelties of girlhood (2023), expanded for its second printing (2025)

Family Resemblance | Member of the queer literary reading group organized by Nakiyah T.M. Jordan

Exhibit B | Member of the Chicago literary variety show series

Screenplay | A campy collaboration with director Paloma López Arismendi (2023)

MailBiz | An interactive, correspondence art installation with artists Liz Flood and Ella Valenstein (2023)

A Thousand Words Worth | Featured in four episodes of a podcast in which poets describe famous paintings extemporaneously (Young Gods Productions, 2023)

Radio show | A weekly surrealist, sound-language series with sound artist Liz Flood at Free Radio SAIC (2023)

E(M/X)BODY Group Exhibition | Co-curated and produced with Judy Lea Steele at The Blue Parrot; eleven presentations of poetry, performance, and audiovisual art on power dynamics and bodily autonomy (November 2022)

“Discovering and Making a Claim” | A writing and pedagogy resource designed for student-artists; created with Leila Wilson for the SAIC Writing Center (2022)

COVID-19 Emergency Loan Program | Community-sourced, zero-interest revolving fund to address immediate need and protect neighbors from predatory lenders; 10K raised and distributed (2020)

Civic initiatives | Polar vortex warming shelter for unhoused folks; 6-week artist residency/group show; recurring reading series, support groups, art workshops, open mics, and organizing assemblies (2017-2020 at Flood's Hall Civic Center)

Food intimacy archive | Poems printed on sale labels affixed to items in grocery stores across Chicago (2016)