Biography
On November 7th, 2024, one of my favorite authors, Eric La Rocca, said: “Let’s create the angriest, queerest, most fucked up art we possibly can over the next four years… Let’s disrupt everything.” This is my mission. As the future becomes increasingly identifiable in comparison with a dark, terrible past, it will take the bold to keep pushing forward - I am one of those people. Having been born neurodivergent, queer, and female (AFAB), I've been fighting for everything I am, every moment I have been alive. I write horror, memoir, and dark fiction that is inherently political because it is part of my identity. But words must be shaped with intent, or they are just nebulous anger, a demand for recognition. My goal is not recognition. Subversion in the face of compliance is best served with the harmony of diversity. My intent is to disrupt. Different ways to say truths, that are purposefully obscured, is defiance. So, I shall meet LaRocca's challenge to the best of my ability through pointed, considered anger fueled by facts, not conjecture. My mind is forever fixed upon the queer utopian horizon and the personally political truths that exist between here and there, even in the face of suppression. Let's disrupt together.
Publications
"Inherited." Lucid Journal, Issue 5: Bodies. November 2024.
“Book Notes: Philosophical Siblings by Jane F. Thrailkill.” The Key Reporter, June 2024.
“Creating Connections through the Visiting Scholar Program with Natalia Molina.” The Key Reporter Magazine, June 2024.
“Digging Deeper on Wild New World with Author Dan Flores.” The Key Reporter, April 2024.
“Book Notes: Read Dangerously by Azar Nafisi.” The Key Reporter Magazine, March 2024.
“Continuing the Conversation: Revisiting a Visiting Scholar.” The Key Reporter Magazine, February 2024.
“Condemnation” Hecate Magazine Anthologies, Print Issue 2: Decay. November 2021. Order Here
“Investment” October 2021. Cape Magazine, Issue 3: Unamused. "Ritual Language" October 2021. Analogies and Allegories Magazine, Issue 6: Magic.
“Meine Geschichte.” Cardigan Press, Byline Legacies Print Anthology. September 2021. Order Here
“Thoughts Before I Am Sawed in Half.” The Cabinet of Heed Literary Journal: Issue 42. January 2021.
“The Day After Christmas.” The Daily Drunk. January 2021.
"The Static" Winter 2021. Epoch Press Literary Journal : Issue 1, "Beginnings". [Out of Print]
Awards & Achievements
- 1st Place Regional & National Winner, JACS National Essay Contest 2004
- 2nd Place Grossmont Community College Science Writing Contest 2009
- Grossmont Community College's President's List Selectee, 2020, 2021
- University of California Grant Recipient, 2021-2023
- Bernard Osher Foundation Scholarship Recipient, 2021-2023
- University of California, Irvine Humanities Honors Grant Recipient, 2022
- University of California, Irvine Undergraduate Digital Humanities Fellow, 2022
- University of California, Irvine Humanities Honors Program Prize Recipient, 2023
- Phi Beta Kappa Writing Internship Selectee, 2024
- Cum Laude Graduate
- Member, Phi Beta Kappa National Honors Society, Mu Chapter
- Member, Tau Sigma National Honors Society for Transfer Students
