Writing Books RORY GALE AND THE STORM GLASS Middle Grade Fantasy60,000 wordsEchoes of mystery in The Secret Library meets the weather magic in Plotting the StarsFeatures: LGBTQ rep, gender-nonconforming characters, found family, climate change themesStatus: ON SUBMISSION THE CITY OF UMBRA Middle Grade Fantasy49,000 wordsA Nearer Moon meets A Wish in the DarkFeatures: LGBTQ rep, found family, dual POV, STEM magic, fantastical geology, mechanical sidekick, luminescent batsStatus: ON SUBMISSION RULES OF ROT YA FantasyAmong the Beasts & Briars meets YA UprootedFeatures: LGBTQ rep, disabled/neurodivergent rep, multi POV, ensemble castStatus: DRAFTING Short WorksPoetry barred spiral Featured in Issue 3.3 of The Dread Machine the sound of a void collapsing… Featured in Vol. 2, Issue 1 of The Quiet Ones, “The Cosmic and the Void” Read It Fiction berylliosis An immunocompromised person must make a decision in order to survive during a life-threatening air quality alert.Featured in The Quiet Ones 2024 Annual Issue Read It skin grafts A young woman sells her skin to survive on a planet with two deadly suns.Featured in Vol. 1, Issue 2 of The Quiet Ones, “Post-Apocalyptic Pride” Read It the roots they pull A gothic tale about the all-consuming nature of first love, digging up heteronormative rot, and growing roots of one’s own.Featured in Your Body Is Not Your Body, a radical horror anthology to benefit trans youth in Texas Buy what we sow Newly orphaned Bea and Rose must bury their father before the mysterious reapers come to collect their tithe.Featured in the modern gothic anthology In Somnio Buy coup d’oeil Featured in Issue 11 of Brilliant Flash Fiction Read It Nonfiction “some sort of dream gargoyle”: golden age, synthetic art, and destruction of creativity in walden two Featured in Vol. 8 of Logos: A Journal of Undergraduate Research Read It writing and anxiety: finding use for all those words in our heads Featured on the Young to Publishing Writers Blog Read It