MANUSCRIPT(S) in progress
Soft Evidence: a poetry manuscript-in-progress
How do we prove what we can't quantify? "Soft evidence" is the opposite of hard evidence, leaving room between the lines for our uncertainty and our doubt. So far, this new poetry collection-in-progress includes poems of the paranormal, fairy tale, women's bodies, ghosts, and true crime. These poems grapple with encounters and narratives that compel us to prove their truth, but that, by their nature, require a leap of logic or belief to make their case.
NEW PROJECTS
2/14/20 Update: This lyric essay was just accepted for publication in a future issue of the amazing Waxwing. Keep an eye out for it later this year. Thank you so much to Waxwing and Nonfiction Editor Silas Hansen!
I recently wrote my first lyric essay! "You Never Think It Could Happen To You: A Reckoning with True Crime" is currently making the rounds in literary magazine slush piles. It explores the sudden POV shift to second-person—the "you"—in the witness interview segments of true crime shows, while delving into what draws me so strongly to true crime TV and movies, my relationship with my mother and my Catholic upbringing, and how the idea of violence shapes us as women.
It was such fun playing with poetic ideas in this more expansive form. I hope to write another lyric essay soon!
2/14/20 Update: This lyric essay was just accepted for publication in a future issue of the amazing Waxwing. Keep an eye out for it later this year. Thank you so much to Waxwing and Nonfiction Editor Silas Hansen!
I recently wrote my first lyric essay! "You Never Think It Could Happen To You: A Reckoning with True Crime" is currently making the rounds in literary magazine slush piles. It explores the sudden POV shift to second-person—the "you"—in the witness interview segments of true crime shows, while delving into what draws me so strongly to true crime TV and movies, my relationship with my mother and my Catholic upbringing, and how the idea of violence shapes us as women.
It was such fun playing with poetic ideas in this more expansive form. I hope to write another lyric essay soon!