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Azalea Gardens (Black Butterflies: Chapbook 6) (2025)
Category: poetry / Chapbook
Published: 2025-09-02
Description: The final chapbook in the series -poems tracing survival, fragile recovery, and the quiet, relentless bloom of hope after devastation.
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Genres: Contemporary Poetry
Maskwork (Black Butterflies: Chapbook 5) (2025)
Category: poetry / Chapbook
Published: 2025-09-02
Description: Seven poems in forms from villanelle to Shakespearean sonnet exploring queerness, shame, and survival -a confession wrapped in craft for those who shine in silence.
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Genres: Contemporary Poetry
Soil of the Grave (Black Butterflies: Chapbook 4) (2025)
Category: poetry / Chapbook
Published: 2025-08-31
Description: Seven poems confronting grief without resolution -a father's fraught legacy, the objects loss leaves behind, and what survives in memory's shadow.
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Genres: Contemporary Poetry
Thirst (Black Butterflies: Chapbook 3) (2025)
Category: poetry / Chapbook
Published: 2025-08-30
Description: Poems in forms from sonnet to tanka tracing infatuation, violation, and the ache that persists long after escape from an abusive romance.
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Genres: Contemporary Poetry
Carapace (Black Butterflies: Chapbook 2) (2025)
Category: poetry / Chapbook
Published: 2025-08-29
Description: Seven poems turning to the body as record and witness of trauma -from anatomical dissection to the sonnet reshaped as armor, a testament of survival that refuses ornament.
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Genres: Contemporary Poetry
Hatchling (Black Butterflies: Chapbook 1) (2025)
Category: poetry / Chapbook
Published: 2025-08-27
Description: Seven incantatory poems tracing trauma's earliest imprints on identity, voice, and bodily memory -from the threshold where selfhood is still becoming.
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Genres: Contemporary Poetry
Black Butterflies (2025)
Category: poetry / Full Collection
Published: 2025-08-16
Description: Debut poetry collection of 131 poems about trauma, grief, betrayal, survival, and healing.
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Genres: Contemporary Poetry
The Syntheticist (2015)
Category: fiction / Short Story
Published: 2015-12-21
Description: When Roger wakes up in a new body, not everything is as it seems. Who is the woman asking him questions?
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Genres: Science Fiction
Love, Evelyn (2015)
Category: fiction / Short Story
Published: 2015-06-10
Description: The world is covered in infected, and those who are left are fighting to survive.
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Genres: Science Fiction
Buddy Hanes (2014)
Category: fiction / Short Story
Published: 2014-09-06
Description: After a deadly virus wipes out humanity, Buddy Hanes must make peace with the strangers around him - and himself.
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Genres: Science Fiction
Eighty-One (2013)
Category: fiction / Short Story
Published: 2013-07-17
Description: A science fiction flash fiction short story published in the Think Sideways Writers Anthology, presented by Holly Lisle.
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Genres: Science Fiction