Translated from the French of Natalie Clifford Barney (1876–1972), the lesbian poet and salonnière who brought together some of the greatest French and English writers of the twentieth century.

Available through Headmistress Press and on Amazon.

The cover image is a detail from a photograph of Natalie Clifford Barney, ca. 1898, by Emery, Bar Harbor, Maine, in the Alice Pike Barney papers, 1861–1965 (accession no. 96-153), box 1, Smithsonian Institution Archives. Image # SIA2025-007000.

Translated from the Portuguese of Judith Teixeira (1880–1959), perhaps the only bisexual woman poet to participate openly in Lisbon’s modernist literary scene.

Available through Headmistress Press and Amazon. Shortlisted for a Lambda Literary Award and a Golden Crown Literary Award.

The cover image is a detail from a photograph by Frances Benjamin Johnson (1864–1952), Mrs. Florence Fleming Noyes in a scarf dance, taken between 1900 and 1915, held at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.

A poetry collection about queer women’s literary tradition and experimentation—in other words, building a canon of our own.

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The image incorporated into the cover design is a detail from a first-century fresco found at Pompeii and now held by the Naples Archaeological Museum. The photograph was taken by Carole Raddato, published on May 2, 2015, and licensed under Creative Commons Attributions-ShareAlike: https://www.flickr.com/photos/carolemage/14842101892/.

Translated from the French of Renée Vivien (née Pauline Mary Tarn, 1877–1909), one of the first lesbian writers to come out (pun intended) in France.

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The image incorporated into the cover design is a photograph of Renée Vivien (ca. 1905), reproduced courtesy of Imogen Bright.

I am a poet, translator, editor, and medievalist with a PhD in comparative literature from the University of Pennsylvania.

My completed manuscripts include Christine de Pizan’s One Hundred Ballades and One Hundred Ballades of a Lover and His Lady, as well as Sapphic Rhythms, a new selection of poems by Renée Vivien. I am also translating the poetry of Marie Krysinska and Alfonsina Storni.

Photograph by Spider Paguio (2024).