Published Work
"The Louse"
Ibbetson Street #55, Summer 2024"My Father's Father"
Italian Americana, Volume XLII, Summer 2024"Up Against the Wall" and "Lump"
Blue Collar Review, Winter 2023-4"Skin Hunger"
Lips, 57/8, 2023"Kindred"
Paterson Literary Review, Issue 51, 2023"My Rainbow Baby"
Rotary Magazine, May 2023"Miles Davis was a Boxer," "The Art of Self Defense," "Scattering"
At the Crossroads: The One Breath Rising Anthology, 2022"Prodigal Lover"
Paterson Literary Review, Summer 2022"Busted," "Toast"
Typehouse Literary Journal, Summer 2022 (Volume 9, No. 2 Issue 25)"My Anthonys," "Actions My Internal Ancestor Forbids"
Ovunque Siamo, Fall 2022"Basin" "If I Were to Be" "Achille's Heel"
Mediterranean Poetry, February 2022"Dumped" and "Determined"
Cacti Fur, February 2022"Another Moving Day"
Paterson Literary Review, Issue 49, Spring 2021"June 16th, 2020"
Quelle Presse Literary Pamphlet 6, July 2020"La Bailarina"
Italian Americana, Summer 2019"Erasure," "Our Sisters," "Weary," and "While Taking This Drug"
Headcase: LBGTQ Writers and Artists on Mental Health and Wellness, Oxford University Press, 2019"Descent"
Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology, Winter 2018"Before the Dove" and "Cut Short"
Gravida: International Journal of Italian Poetry, Number 52, Fall 2017"North and South"
The Shanghai Literary Review, The First Issue, June 2017"Poetics of Nature" and "Cruising Christopher Street"
Hashtag Queer: LGBTQ+ Creative Anthology, Vol. #1, 2017"Conceive" (Featured Poem) and "First-Strike"
The Stray Branch, #19 Vol 16, Spring/Summer 2017"Ragged"
Mutha Magazine, May 12, 2017"Cinderella Washington DC 2004"
Mayday: The LGBTQ Issue, #10, Fall 2016"Places to Land"
Roanoke Review , Volume XLI, Fall 2016"Husband and Wifey"
The Careless Embrace of the Boneshaker, great weather for Media, LLC, Summer 2016"Unbecoming"
Grabbing the Apple: An Anthology of New York Women Poets, JB Stillwater Publishing Company, 2016"When I am Asked"
Slant: A Journal of Poetry, Volume 30, Summer 2016"Adorn"
Winner of a Plainsong's Award Plainsongs, XXXVI.2, Winter 2016"Grace"
Palabras Luminosas/Luminous Words: The Alternative New Year's Day Spoken Word/Performance Extravaganza! Anthology, 2016"Hope"
Nomad's Choir Poetry Journal, Volume 24, Issue 2, Spring 2016"Live Model"
Caveat Lector, Volume 25, Number 2, Winter 2015"The Briar Speaks"
Wild Violet Literary Magazine, October 2015"3, 2, 1..." and "All the King's Men"
Bridge, Pseudotsuga Press, Number 3, 2015"Flip a Coin," "Quantum," and "Photosynthesis"
Red Rock Review, Issue 36, Fall 2015"The Thirteenth Wise Woman"
The Evansville Review, Volume XXV, 2015"Canvas"
Sanskrit: Literary-Arts Magazine, Volume 46, 2015"Aschenputtel"
Illuminations: An International Magazine of Contemporary Writing, #30, Summer 2015"Making Room"
Haight Ashbury Literary Journal, Volume 32, Number 1, Summer 2015"The Briar Speaks" and "The Princess and the Pea"
The Fickle Muses, Summer 2015"Always in My Heart"
Doula Spot Grief and Loss Support Blog, June 30, 2015One Poem
Pinyon Review, Number 7, May 2015"Before Winter Comes"
Chiron Review, Issue #99, Spring 2015"Bound"
Writers Circle Folio, Issue #2, 2014"The Courage to Die Continually"
The Common Ground Review, Fall/Winter Stars Issue, Volume 16, Number 2, 2014"Taken"
Silver Apples Magazine, "The Naughty List," Issue 3, December 2014"Dis-Content"
need to know basis, November 2014"Rapunzel's Birth Mother"
Silver Birch Press, Mythic Poetry Series, October 25, 2014"Before We Get Any Closer" and "Between Us"
Literary Mama, October 15 2014"Good at Biting"
Pif Magazine, August 1, 2014Two Poems: "The Princess and the Pea" and "The Miller's Daughter"
Pinyon Review, September 2014.Aim for the Gut: A Selection of Poems
Challenger International, 2014."Exposed" and "Don't Look Back"
Iodine Poetry Journal, Fall/Winter 2014"One Man Show"
Voices in Italian Americana, Vol 25, No 1, Spring 2014"Wide Open"
E•ratio Poetry Journal, July 2014"The Light of the Moon"
Radius: Poetry from the Center to the Edge, April 2014"En Route"
Eclectica Literary Magazine, Mar/Apr 2014"Homing" and "After Rumi"
Monterey Poetry Review, Mar 2014"Close to Home"
New People (Thomas Merton Center), March 2014"Erasure"
Yeats Poetry Society Poetry Competition, 2nd Place, April 2014
Selected by Jessica Greenbaum"Dis-Content"
CC&D Magazine, January/February 2014"Dark Matter"
Return to Zero Project on Reconceiving Loss, February 2014"Doing Laundry Together"
Potomac Review of Montgomery College, Issue #53, Fall 2013"Acherontia Atropos," "Matin," and "Grace"
Writer's Circle Folio of Brooklyn Public Library, 2013"The Near and Far"
Comstock Review, Fall/Winter 2013 (Special Merit)"The House Guest"
Lambda Literary Poetry Spotlight, May 2012"Miser"
Podium Online Literary Magazine Issue 11, Winter 2011.
Selected by Rachel Zucker from the Advanced Poetry Workshop at the 92nd St YThe Dream Catcher's Song: An Anthology Presenting Five Emerging Brooklyn Writers Bella Press, 2009
"La Mia Cugina"
Avanti Popolo: Italian American Writers Sail Beyond Columbus, Manic D Press, 2008"Our Sisters"
The Centrifugal Eye Online Poetry Journal, Spring 2007"The Fig Tree"
Folio, the Literary Journal of American University, Spring 2006"Instructions After Death"
Poetic Voices Without Borders, Gival Press, 2005 (Review)No Marketable Skills: A Collection of Poetry MFA Thesis, American University, 2004
"Without Tradition" Review of Waiting for an Angel by Helon Habila Worldview Magazine, Summer 2003