Link to recent work as Arts Editor for Champaign-Urbana’s Smile Politely.
Review of Xu Xi’s Monkey in Residence & Other Speculations. in Tupelo Quarterly. December, 2023.
Review: Conjuring the Artist: A Review of the Daughter of Man by LJ Sysko. The Compulsive Reader. October, 2023.
Review: The Term Between by Brady Harrison (Twelve Winters Press) in American Book Review, University of Nebraska Press, Summer 2023. First page here.
Interview/conversation with author and teacher, Kristina Marie Darling, The Adroit Journal, May 3, 2022.
Review: Prose is What We Add to Myth: Sam Taylor’s Book of Fools. Green Mountains Review, April 6, 2022.
Interview with Danyla Nash, Urbana’s First Youth Poet Laureate. Smile Politely, April 13, 2022. Read the interview here.
“Talent on tap in Lynn Nottage’s Sweat at Krannert Center for the Performing Arts.” April 19, 2022. Read the review here.
“Hudson’s Better Angels Emblazon the Giertz Gallery at Parkland College: A Review of Steven Hudson’s Latest Exhibit.” Smile Politely: March 2, 2022. Read Review Here.
“Uncover the Beauty of Numbers in Black and White,” Smile Politely: February 2, 2022: Read Review Here.
“Immerse Yourself in Force Majeure at the Tarble Arts Center,” Smile Politely: October 27, 2021: Read Review Here.
Exit 212: A Haibun Comfort Food Essay in Midwest Writing Center’s anthology These Interesting Times: Surviving 2020 in the QC Area. September 2021. Order here.
“Afrofuturism In the Key of Life; A Review of Future Spaces in Community Places” Smile Politely: September 24, 2021: Read Review Here.
“Parkland Art and Design Faculty Exhibit Balances Personal and Political,” Smile Politely: September 15, 2021: Read Review Here.
Review: “How Refrains Work: M.I. Devine’s Warhol’s Mother’s Pantry.” Tupelo Quarterly, September 2021. Read review.
Review: “memoir of the gate:” Candice Wuehle’s Aperture for Francesca Woodman in Death Industrial Complex. Tupelo Quarterly, August 2021. Review linked here.
"Jocasta Got a Bad Rap: An Apology." Tupelo Quarterly. February 2018. Read the essay here.
Review: "Lost and Found in Translation: The Lovers' Phrasebook, Poems by Jordi Alonso and Illustrations by Phoebe Carter." Tupelo Quarterly, August 2017. Review linked HERE.
Review: “Bodies in time and space: A review of Keegan Lester’s ‘this shouldn’t be beautiful but it was & it was all i had so i drew it.” Tupelo Quarterly, September 2017.
Two Poems, "Down State," and "Geometry of Boredom (After David Foster Wallace)," in Summer/Fall 2016 I-70 Review. Follow the I-70 Review on Facebook.
Apocalypse Now in Oh Baby! True Stories About Conception, Love, Adoption, Surrogacy, Pregnancy, Labor, and Love, In Fact Books, October 2015.
Apocalypse Now, reprinted in Brain, Child: The Magazine for Thinking Mothers. December 2015. Read the essay here
Boiled Peanuts with the Undead, October 2015 in Change Seven. Nominated for a 2016 Pushcart Prize.
Stations of the Cross Issue 8: September 2015 in Minerva Rising
White Guilt in Mouth Magazine, June 2015
White Guilt also appeared in Issue 22, September 2015, Fear of Monkeys
Pietà Publica, featured essay in Embodied Effigies January 2015. https://effigiesmag.wordpress.com/featured-writing/2014-2/
On David Foster Wallace's Consider the Lobster and Other Essays, January 2015, The Drunken Odyssey Podcast
Gephyrophobia, a prose poem in KYSO Flash's anthology from December 2014. http://www.kysoflash.com/Issue1/PenneGephyrophobia.aspx.