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I’m trying to write literature here.

– Tina McElroy Ansa

SOME WORDS

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

collages!

• anthologized in I Haven’t Made It Home Yet
• printed in Colour into Focus
• archived at Hotelli- & ravintolamuseo in helsinki, finland
• exhibited in the black madonna & other sacred spaces
• forthcoming in sinister wisdom

doodles!

• published online in The Inquisitive Eater and The Clutched Hen
• exhibited at massillon museum
• forthcoming in fictional classrooms anthology