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January 26, 2024

Find Me at AWP

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AWP, the largest writing conference in the country, is right around the corner: 8-11 February in Kansas City. It’s early this year which makes me feel slightly rushed and anxious because I have a to-do list a mile long. (Side

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May 7, 2023

Book Tour: May

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May is already here and it’s a very busy month for my book tour as I have seven (!!) readings this month including two in Philly, two virtual, the Gaithersburg Book Festival, and my book launch party!!! I hope to

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March 16, 2023

Post-AWP Hangover

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Hello from my post-AWP hangover. I don’t drink but that doesn’t seem to matter at AWP as it’s 3-ish days of nonstop poetry / tabling / reading / chatting / everything. I arrived home at 1am on Monday morning, exhausted

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Of all the things I could have guessed would impact my book launch, a pandemic would probably have been one of the last. And yet, here we are: a couple weeks into the coronavirus pandemic, practicing social distancing or full-on

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February 21, 2020

Dirty Word

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My full length collection, Beautiful & Full of Monsters, will be published in just a few weeks – eek!! It’s both exciting and terrifying that this book will be in people’s hands in a month, that they’ll be reading my

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