The Dragonfly

Uncanny Magazine, September 2026

It’s the stillest creature June has ever held. Every part of the dragonfly’s body, from its sapphire tail to its gossamer wings to its wide, silvery eyes, scatters light. She doesn’t know how long she stands there, in the buffeting heart of the woods, watching its wings furl open and closed. She tries to time her own body to its rhythm, filling her lungs in the space of one wingbeat, emptying them the next.

June dreads the moment her bones will sink back into the world she knows, where insects bite and friends die and loved things never find their way back to you.

• mental illness, queer coming-of-age, seductive & fantastical grief

• my first speculative fiction sale!

Moon Rabbit

Fractured Lit, April 2025

A better daughter would have counted the signs. The burner under the kettle, left on after brewing tea. The handset laid crooked on its base. But I was small. I had my own asterisms. I saw my mother like I saw the sky: somehow distant, not quite real.

• mothers & daughters, grief, fabulism, myth

• Nominated for the 2026 Pushcart Prize

• Winner of the 2024 NC State Shorter Fiction Contest

Railroads

One Teen Story, December 2023

My voice hung slack in my throat; it would be many years before I convinced myself I had anything worth saying. All I knew was that the first words I fed to the flames had to be important ones, deliberate ones—the kind of words that surged through your veins and burst from your chest and electrified you with their rightness—and I had not yet found them.

• familial inheritance, cultural belonging, language, coming-of-age

• Winner of the 2023 National One Teen Story Contest in the Ages 18-18 Category

• Interviewed by UNC-Chapel Hill's Department of English and Comparative Literature

Siren Song

Uncanny Magazine, forthcoming

Self-Portrait as Eurydice

Anathema, forthcoming

Portrait of Girlhood as Icarus

Anathema, forthcoming