And what did it mean to be kids together? Together in those years of uncertainty, searching for those who made us feel less alone. Venerations and Goodbyes is my love letter to that liminal time in adolescence where you do not belong anywhere except the space and time you are inhabiting. The time while you wait for your life to start, often, not realizing that it already has.

These poems pause on the small moments. They celebrate the places you were able to first be free and commemorate the friends who were there alongside you. They explore what it meant to be kids together, at a certain time, in a certain place. They lament how much we carry with us and how much we eventually leave behind. We grow and change from those awkward kids. Though we don’t realize it, as days come after days and the same songs play on our playlists. We hold on to just enough, so we don’t feel it slipping away. These poems honor and mourn those moments that add up to a life. ​


​Short Skirts and Whiskey Shots, captures that liminal part of our lives, that time past adolescence, yet before adulthood. This collection is deeply rooted in the people and the streets of New York City. It thrives in the bars, the clubs, the tenements, the subway. It celebrates the dirty streets, the beer soaked nights, and those who sweat liquor. It explores the idiosyncrasies, the innocence, the excesses of the city.

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From a tenement building in Alphabet City that had not changed much since the turn of the century to the trendy clubs and dark bars this collection explores, finds, loses, and regains itself. It claims the space and the right to be reckless, as a woman. It explores the uncertainty of being on your own for the first time, exploring the world, and getting a little lost along the way. It veers off the intended path, it course corrects, it celebrates what we learn on those detours. It does not make apologies. 
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Earth Island Books
Indie Bound
Powell's
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Amazon
First pressing: EMP Books, January 2022
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​Mix Tapes and Photo Albums is a coming-of-age poetry collection about a small town punk rock scene told by a girl who loved Francie Nolan and Ben Weasel equally. Each poem assumes the title of a song which creates the soundtrack to a group of teenagers who push the boundaries of their small town, test where they fit, and find solace in their local punk rock scene. This poetic mix tape sings to the kids who will hear their first Sex Pistols song, start their own bands, write their own zines, scrawl Xs on their hands, and create their own communities; and those kids who remember. Mix Tapes and Photo Albums speaks to those to know that punk is thriving in the streets of small towns everywhere, just waiting for the next generation of kids to tap into its raw power. 


​This is for anyone who ever played in a band, put out a zine, booked a show, or passed out a flyer
This is for Metro in the Sterling Hotel, Metro on South Main Street, and Homebase
This is for all those bands who provided the soundtrack to my adolescence
This is for all those bands who wrote the songs that shaped my life
This is for all the punk kids who were fucking there
This is for all those the ex-boyfriends
This is for the Wilkes-Barre scene

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Indie Bound
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