Publications

Poetry Collections & Chapbooks
  • Dela Torre, Sundress Publications, February 8, 2022, e-chapbook
  • Salamat sa Intersectionality, Okay Donkey Press, May 18, 2021, print collection
Creative Nonfiction Chapbooks
  • Swallow Whole, Bullshit Press, forthcoming October 2023, print chapbook
Poetry
  • “Dilation,” The Worcester Review, forthcoming fall 2023, print
  • “Devin,” Prime Number Magazine, forthcoming September 1, 2023, web
  • “Triple Helix,” Grist: A Journal of the Literary Arts, forthcoming spring 2023, print
  • “Naming Cody,” “OCD II,” & “Patrick, 54,” South Dakota Review, forthcoming spring 2023, print
  • “Ten-Item Questionnaire for My Great-Grandmother” (later retitled “Interview with My Great-Grandmother”), The Book of Life After Death, Tolsun Books, forthcoming spring 2023, print
  • “Footnotes to Marriage by Correspondence,” Bennington Review, forthcoming spring 2023, print & web
  • “Stephen,” Pidgeonholes, forthcoming spring 2023, web
  • “AWP 2023: A Brief Narrative,” trampset, March 12, 2023, web
  • Reprint: “Track: ‘Dead of Night’ by Orville Peck (2019),” Get Bent, Bending Genres, March 2023, print
  • “Nature in Technicolor,” “Peter,” & “Poem with Fake Resolution,” Puerto del Sol, March 2023, print
  • “Pure O,” Beaver Magazine, January 31, 2023, web
  • Reprint: “OCD,” Poem of the Week, Zoeglossia, January 15, 2023, web
  • “1,000 Years of Dirt,” “Kevin,” & “West,” The Broadkill Review, December 31, 2022, web
  • “A Brief History of Jade,” Lucky Jefferson (the Sonder issue), November 20, 2022, print
  • “Scene Outside Elko, NV,” HORNS, November 8, 2022, print & e-book
  • “Capitol,” FOLIO, October 17, 2022, print & e-book
  • “Alan,” Hobart After Dark, September 18, 2022, web
  • “Colonization,” Faultline Journal of Arts and Letters, June 2022, print
  • “Inertia,” Miracle Monocle, May 2, 2022, web
  • “Notes on Self-Discovery,” Santa Ana River Review, April 25, 2022, web
  • “Self-Orientalization,” Quarter After Eight, March 2022, pp. 81–2, print
  • “Balikbayan,” “Latex,” & “List of Illustrations”; Barrelhouse; February 16, 2022; web
  • Reprint: “A Practical Guide to Confronting Racism,” The Next Best Book Blog, December 24, 2021, web
  • “Kumusta,” Cream City Review, December 18, 2021, p. 70, print & web
  • “First Date,” Palette Poetry, December 13, 2021, web
  • “If I Remain a Boy” & “Siopao,” The Dock, Hayden’s Ferry Review, November 30, 2021, web
  • “Killing Field,” Tinderbox Poetry Journal, October 19, 2021, web
  • “Turning Point,” Glassworks Magazine, October 1, 2021, p. 48, print & web
  • “Track: ‘Dead of Night’ by Orville Peck (2019),” Foglifter, October 2021, p. 40, print
  • “Dear Andrew Cunanan,” Okay Donkey Magazine, July 12, 2021, web
  • “Permafrost,” Pedestal Magazine, June 21, 2021, web
  • “Convergent Boundary,” Thin Air Magazine, June 13, 2021, p. 52, print
  • “Asian Romance Guide to Marriage by Correspondence,” Hairstreak Butterfly Review, June 11, 2021, web
  • Reprint: “Advanced Studies” & “Nevada,” The Coil, June 2, 2021, web
  • “American Pastoral” & “Heritage,” beestung, May 20, 2021, web
    • “Heritage” was nominated by beestung for the Pushcart Prize 2022
  • “If They Equals You” & “Scar,” Cosmonauts Avenue (defunct), May 19, 2021, web
  • “Dear Darren Criss,” Burning Jade Literary & Arts Magazine (defunct), May 19, 2021, web
  • Reprint: “Desert Tango,” “A Token Isn’t Worth Anything,” & “Toyland”; Punk-Ass Book Jockey; May 10, 2021; web
  • Reprint: “Across the Desert,” “Pearls,” & “Western Mythology”; Hypertext Magazine; May 7, 2021; web
  • “Kimchi,” Rust + Moth, May 3, 2021, p. 42, print & web
  • “El chisporrotear,” “La tormenta de arena,” & “Los pioneros”; Azahares; April 22, 2021; p. 31; print & web
  • “Dela Torre” & “The Price of Olives,” The Emerson Review, April 21, 2021, pp. 26 & 41–2, print & web
    • “Dela Torre” & “The Price of Olives” were nominated by The Emerson Review for The Orison Anthology 2021
  • “Ars Party Foul,” Gulf Stream Magazine, April 18, 2021, web
  • “Texas Tango,” Random Sample Review, April 17, 2021, web
    • “Texas Tango” was nominated by Random Sample Review for Best of the Net 2021
  • “Gathering Wood, 1998,” The Racket, March 2, 2021, pp. 5–6, web
  • “This work of art is,” The Racket, February 9, 2021, pp. 4–5, web
  • “Halo-halo,” Rappahannock Review, December 11, 2020, web
  • “Representation in the Borderlands” (later retitled “Repping in the Borderlands”), Camas, December 2020, p. 24, print
  • “Father Gone” (later retitled “Father’s Estate”) & “Memories of Sacramento,” The Chaffin Journal, November 1, 2020, pp. 37–8, print
  • “Dear Jeremy,” Alien Magazine, August 21, 2020, web
  • “Coordinates for My Dad’s Ashes,” Figure 1, August 10, 2020, web
  • “An Expanse of Dirt Outside Fernley, NV” (later retitled “Fernley, NV Wilds”) & “The Spelunker’s Adventure Book” (later retitled “The High School Spelunker’s Guidebook”), FERAL: A Journal of Poetry and Art, August 1, 2020, pp. 47 & 49, print & web
    • “Fernley, NV Wilds” was nominated by Mississippi University for Women in 2020 for the AWP Intro Journals Project
    • “The High School Spelunker’s Guidebook” was nominated by FERAL: A Journal of Poetry and Art for Best of the Net 2021
  • “Academic Unraveling,” “Corporate Hierarchy,” & “SB254: Revises provisions relating to carbon reduction”; Sons and Daughters; June 15, 2020; web
  • “Angeligender,” “Michelangelo,” & “Technological Dismemberment”; LandLocked; May 7, 2020; pp. 54–6; print & web
    • “Angeligender” was nominated by Mississippi University for Women in 2020 for the AWP Intro Journals Project
    • “Michelangelo” was nominated by LandLocked for Best of the Net 2020
  • “Heart, Wine, and Desert,” Tributaries, The Fourth River, April 8, 2020, web
  • “Don’t Freeze with Me,” Tule Review, February 22, 2020, p. 92, print
  • “Pauli Exclusion,” Dovecote Magazine, February 6, 2020, web
  • “Cybernetic Impromptu” & “OCD,” Thin Air Online, January 13, 2020, web
  • “Milk” (later retitled “Lactose Intolerance”), Glass: A Journal of Poetry, January 1, 2020, web
  • “What the Ocean Taught Me” (later retitled “Anti-mimetic Body”), Wend, December 10, 2019, p. 22, web
  • “Imago” & “My Mom Was a Picture Bride,” Foothill, November 8, 2019, pp. 22–4, print & web
    • “My Mom Was a Picture Bride” was nominated by Foothill for the Pushcart Prize 2020
    • “My Mom Was a Picture Bride” was also a finalist for the journal’s annual Editors’ Prize
  • “Berm,” My Loves, Ghost City Press, November 2, 2019, web
  • “Dust Storm,” Helen, October 21, 2019, print postcard & web
  • “Introduction to Literary Theory and Criticism,” The Matador Review (defunct), October 2, 2019, web
  • “PDX Tote Bag Aesthetic and New Year’s Eve Expectations” (later retitled “PDX Queen”), Queer Around the World Too, Qommunicate Publishing, September 30, 2019, pp. 88–9, print & e-book
  • “Lost Boys,” detritus, September 27, 2019, p. 31, web
  • “Naked Heat,” Lift Every Voice, Kissing Dynamite, September 21, 2019, p. 31, print
  • “Sidewind into the Universe,” The Shore, September 17, 2019, web
  • “Salt,” Transcend, September 2, 2019, pp. 74–5, print & e-book
  • “A Practical Guide to Confronting Racism,” Elephants Never, September 2, 2019, web
  • “Mantis,” “Mosquitoes,” & “Parasitism”; Prismatica Magazine; August 12, 2019; pp. 2–4; print, web, & e-book
  • “Call Me Wallaby,” “Jouissance,” “Sizzle,” “Sylvia Plath and Virginia Woolf Talk on My Thighs,” & “To Judith Butler”; Lockjaw Magazine; August 1, 2019; web
  • “Hyacinths,” The Blue Mountain Review, July 31, 2019, p. 35, web
  • “Cryogenesis,” Rigorous, July 27, 2019, web
  • “Dissonance,” trampset, July 26, 2019, web
  • “Memento Mori,” Marías at Sampaguitas, July 23, 2019, web
  • “Dissociate,” “Lazarus,” & “Stuck in Primordial Soup”; #EnbyLife; July 21, 2019; web
  • “Born on the Mountainside” (later retitled “Mountain Coda”), Noble / Gas Qtrly (defunct), July 11, 2019, web
  • “Frogs” and “Snails,” Vamp Cat Magazine (defunct), July 8, 2019, web
  • “Sanctuary,” Ghost City Review, July 7, 2019, web
  • “Worknight Tango,” Sons and Daughters, July 4, 2019, web
    • I read this poem, among others, for the first episode of Sons and Daughters’ Virtual Reading Series
  • “Nevada,” Mojave Heart Review (defunct), July 1, 2019, web
  • “Math Class,” detritus, June 28, 2019, p. 50, web
  • “Post-apocalyptic,” “Salamat for Intersectionality” (later retitled “Salamat sa Intersectionality”), & “They Call It ‘LGBT Family Building’”; Cathexis Northwest Press; June 28, 2019; web
    • “Salamat sa Intersectionality” was nominated by Mississippi University for Women in 2019 for the AWP Intro Journals Project
    • I was one of July 2019’s featured poets at Cathexis Northwest Press
  • “Desert Play Date” (later retitled “Desert Tango”), Mura (defunct), June 22, 2019, web
  • “Freedom in Six Parts,” “Gates of Paradise,” & “Potato Bugs”; Empty Mirror; June 14, 2019; web
  • “Advanced Studies,” Mura (defunct), June 7, 2019, web
  • “Filipinx” & “Shape,” Juke Joint Magazine, May 30, 2019, web
    • “Filipinx” was nominated by Juke Joint Magazine for Best of the Net 2019
  • “Waiter,” Red Eft Review, May 17, 2019, web
  • “Evening Wear Realness” & “Miscegenation Blues,” Brine Literary, January 1, 2019, pp. 25–6, web
  • “Capitalism Isn’t for Birds,” “Merry-go-round,” “Toyland,” & “Where the Trails of Our Bodies Meet”; Loose Leaf; several issues throughout 2016; print zine
  • “Poet” & “Tango” (later retitled “Eureka” & “Sunrise Tango,” respectively), Page & Spine, December 18, 2015, web
  • “A Token Isn’t Worth Anything,” Feminist Spaces, December 2015, p. 49, web
  • “150 Years of Molt,” “Babel,” “Brave New World,” “Dollhouse,” “Don’t Burn Your Bones,” “Freudian Discontent Regarding Patterned Sexuality,” “Lessons in Sculpture,” “Lost in Humboldt” (later retitled “Humboldt County”), “Marsha P. Johnson Threw the First Brick” (later retitled “Western Mythology”), “Menagerie,” “Mommy,” “Pearls,” “Picasso Bleeds,” “Pioneers,” “Revelation Across the Desert” (later retitled “Across the Desert”), “Scrapyard Affair,” “Thank You,” & “Yellow-Blue Migraine”; Brushfire Literature & Arts; several issues throughout 2014–2019; print (archive available online)
Creative Nonfiction
  • “Object Permanence,” Rigorous, September 14, 2022, web
  • “Walt Whitman Is the Reason I Want to Fuck My Dad” (later retitled “Multitude”), Quarterly West, July 1, 2022, web
    • “Multitude” was a finalist for the journal’s annual prose contest
  • “Electricity,” Crab Creek Review, May 23, 2022, print
    • “Electricity” was nominated by Crab Creek Review for the Pushcart Prize 2023
  • “Asian Bones,” Glassworks Magazine, March 1, 2020, pp. 6–12, print & web
    • “Asian Bones” was nominated by Glassworks Magazine for the Pushcart Prize 2021
  • “Bobby and the Princess,” Route 7 Review, December 5, 2019, web
  • “Pretty Edges,” Cold Mountain Review, November 11, 2019, web
  • “Wildman,” Nightingale & Sparrow, August 15, 2019, print & web