I am: a poet. Human. Transgender. Nonbinary. A writer. A person who. A vessel for breath. An audience. A believer. A skeptic. A simulation. A sadness. A joy. A vexed thing. A convex surface. A knot with zero crossings. An unsolved equation. A mystery. A storehouse of memory. An instant of forgetting. A destroyer. A survivor. An overdrawn account. An aftertaste. A fullness. A lack. Myself. I live in Minnesota. My pronouns are they/them. Thanks for reading.
2022 PEN America Prison Writing Contest – Honorable Mention in Poetry for “Lightning Rods”
2020 PEN America Prison Writing Contest – Honorable Mention in Poetry for “Eugene Cernan: Last Man on the Moon“
2020 PEN America Prison Writing Contest – Honorable Mention in Essay for “Why I Write“
Winner, 2019 PEN America Prison Writing Contest – 2nd Place in Poetry for “Time Reversal Invariance“
Winner, 2019 PEN America Prison Writing Contest – 3rd Place in Poetry for “Geode“