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I’m trying to write literature here.

– Tina McElroy Ansa

SELECT publications

Big Mouth Mitchie, CRAFT Literary. selected for Wigleaf’s 2026 Top 50 Very Short Fictions

Visiting a Boy’s Room, Split Lip Magazine. [wigleaf very best short stories longlist] [republished in eastover anthology of rural stories, volume ii]

A Short Story About a Woman Who Can’t Stop Burying Things, Center for Fiction Emerging Writers Anthology. Third Place, Dream Foundry Speculative Writing Contest

A Fortune Teller Worth Her Ball Should Refuse to Tell You When You’re Going to Die, Passages North

The Wanderer: A Black Woman’s Search For Her Place in White, White Vermont, The Delacorte Review [Longreads Best of: Reader Favorites]

The Numbers in My Phone, Autostraddle

On Guacamole That Comes Out of a Squirt Gun, Taco Bell Quarterly

A Series of Observations Regarding the Present Pandemic’s Persistence, Zone 3 Press

awards + recognition

residencies & workshops

+ doodles & collages

cartoon red cardinal chewing gum, on tarot card titled 'the birdbrain'
one take on ‘the fool’ card. to see another card from my ohio themed tarot deck, check out ‘the playbook.’

on paper and screens

up on walls

  • peas, greens, and peaches, forthcoming in the black madonna & other sacred spaces exhibit at urban arts space, 2026
  • The Playbook, The Inventor, and The Champions, exhibited at Massillon Museum​, 2024
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