2026
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- “my outlaw in-law” — Samjoko, forthcoming
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- “gratuitous gratuity” — Samjoko, forthcoming
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- “exoplanet-related drabbun” — Drabbun Anthology, forthcoming
2025
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- “the leviathan, whispers the steerer” — Samjoko, read
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- “paper crane wishes” — concrete poem in Specpoverse, forthcoming
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- “three haiku” — Scifaikuest, November 2025 online magazine
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- “one haiku” — Scifaikuest, November 2025 print magazine
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- “cave writing” — Dreams and Nightmares January 2025, buy
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- “Mitosis” — Eye to the Telescope Issue 55, January 2025 (Non)Binaries theme, edited by Haley Bossé read
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- “landslides” (scifaiku) — Star*Line buy
2024
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- “multiple haiku” — Scifaikuest, October 2024 print issue, Featured Poet, buy
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- “rookery” — Orion’s Belt, read
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- “hook-up” (chained cinquian) — Star*Line 47.3 Summer 2024, buy
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- “good pickings” — Star*Line 47.4 Fall 2024, buy
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- “atomic numbers” — reprinted in The Heartbeat of the Universe: Poems from Asimov’s Science Fiction and Analog Sciene Fiction and Fact 2012-2022, edited by Emily Hockaday, Interstellar Flight Press poetry anthology buy
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- “don’t f with the time empress” — Eye to the Telescope, Outlaws Issue 54, edited by edited by Melissa Ridley Elmes read
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- “pawns” — Eye to the Telescope, Dragons Issue 52, edited by SFPA staff read
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- “at the zoo” — Star*Line 47.2, Spring 2024, buy
2023
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- “five o’clock traffic” — Star*Line 46.4 Fall 2023 buy
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- “ribbon spicy” —
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- Eye to the Telescope, Food and Feasting Issue 50, edited by Claire McNerney read
- Nominated for the Pushcart Prize
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- “ribbon spicy” —
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- “the ultimate snack” — Star*Line, 46.2 Spring 2023 buy
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- “hyphae hot pot” —
- Eye to the Telescope, Fungi Issue, #48 (April 2023) read
- Nominated for the Rhysling Anthology (long list)
- “hyphae hot pot” —
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- “two glottal stops” —
- Star*Line, Winter 2023 buy
- Selected to be read by Miguel O. Mitchell at Capclave in Rockville, MD on October 1, 2023 in the Speculative Poetry Reading and Workshop
- Reprinted in Poem in Your Pocket Day 2024 at Tompkins County Public Library
- Nominated for the Dwarf Star Awards
- “two glottal stops” —
2022
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- “star freighter (haiku)” — Star*Line, Spring 2022 buy
2021
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- “silver plate galaxy” — Star*Line, Summer 2021 buy
2020
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- “behind the self-help section” — Uncanny read
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- “honey” — Star*Line, Winter 2020 buy
2019
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- “Taho” — Uncanny read
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- “tetrahedral edifices of
a sticky rice realm” —
- Mithila Review read
- Nominated for the Rhysling Award
- “tetrahedral edifices of
a sticky rice realm” —
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- Planetary Refuse: A Flurry of Haiku — Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet buy
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- “a nano message” — Star*Line, Winter 2019 buy
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- “Untitled” — Star*Line, Winter 2019, poetry translation (Chinese to English), original by Shiyi Li buy
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- “Balancing Act” — Star*Line, Winter 2019, co-written with Deborah L. Davitt & Gretchen Tessmer buy
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- “replicated” — Scifaikuest, Aug. 2019 buy
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- “cosmic tailgate” — Scifaikuest, Aug. 2019 buy
2018
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- “astronaut ice cream” — Polu Texni read
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- “Atomic Numbers” —
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- Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Jan/Feb 2018 buy / read
- Finalist for the AnLab Reader’s Award for poetry
- Nominated for the Rhysling Award
- Reprinted as “atomic numbers” in Multiverse – an international anthology of science fiction poetry, edited by Rachel Plummer and Russell Jones, a Shoreline of Infinity anthology buy
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- “Atomic Numbers” —
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- “Knock-out Opalescent Victory” — Argot read
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- “A stroll by the pond…” — haiga Grievous Angel read
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- “nakajiru” —
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- Mithila Review read
- Nominated for the Rhysling Award
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- “nakajiru” —
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- “the alien’s suit” —
- Star*Linebuy
- Reprinted in the Attack Bear Poetry Vending Machine Project
- “the alien’s suit” —
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- “Cybernetic Harvest” — a collaborative triptych with Deborah L. Davitt and Gretchen Tessmer, Star*Line buy
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- “hive minds” —
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- tanka poem in Atlas Poetica, 25 Science Fiction Tanka and Kyoka, 2018 read
- Reprinted in the Attack Bear Poetry Vending Machine Project
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- “hive minds” —
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- “spaceship window” —
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- haiku in The Haiku Foundation, Haiku Windows read
- Reprinted in the Attack Bear Poetry Vending Machine Project
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- “spaceship window” —
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- “the odd couple: fermions and bosons” — Star*Line, Issue #41.3, Summer 2018 buy
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- “particles collide” — Star*Line, Issue #41.3, Summer 2018 buy
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- “supersymmetry” — Star*Line, Issue #41.3, Summer 2018 buy
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- “amplituhedron” — Star*Line, Issue #41.3, Summer 2018 buy
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- “missing dance partners” — Star*Line, Issue #41.3, Summer 2018 buy
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- “mossy cypress” — Typehouse, Vol. 6, Issue 2, Issue 17 read
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- “half-chewed” — Typehouse, Vol. 6, Issue 2, Issue 17 read
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- “triumph by absorption” haiku — Typehouse, Vol. 6, Issue 2, Issue 17 read
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- “the sun” — Typehouse, Vol. 6, Issue 2, Issue 17 read
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- “the shore boardwalk” —
- haiku in The Haiku Foundation, Sense of Place read
- Reprinted in the Attack Bear Poetry Vending Machine Project
- “the shore boardwalk” —
2017
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- “Alternate Universe Haiku: Uniformity” — scifaiku in Eye to the Telescope, Issue #24, April 2017 read
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- “martian rover jeepneys” — LONTAR Issue #9, Autumn 2017 buy
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- “ketchup / catsup / kecap” — LONTAR Issue #9, Autumn 2017 buy
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- “spring in antarctica” — Star*Line (Journal of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association), Issue #40.4, Fall 2017 buy
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- “Release” —
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- haiga (illustrated haiku) Grievous Angel read
- Reprinted as a haiku in the Attack Bear Poetry Vending Machine Project
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- “Release” —
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- “a battleground courses in jingfei” — Liminality, Issue #14, “Nuclear Winter,” Winter 2017-2018 read
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