the wolf's den

poetry, essays, CNF, reviews

Recent publications

A Wolf Devouring A Wolf Devouring A Wolf, Jackleg Press…order it here

Forthcoming

“For The Brides At The Wedding Of Flowers” Plume

“At the Wedding of My Transformation” LIT

“At the Wedding of a Future Dystopia“, “At the Wedding of Now”At the Wedding of Blue” “At the Wedding of a Future Dystopia“, “At the Wedding of Now”, A Bell Ringing, Partial Index of Early Weddings, Annulet double issue

“Take One Mouth and Consume the Mouth of Another” Cobra Milk

There Are Two Brides” Miracle Monocle‘s micro-anthology series: A Little Sugar in the Tank

“What This Fabric Could Tell” Non-Binary Review

“The Wedding is a Sensible Affair” Muzzle Magazine

“The Wolf Returned Me To The Interior. I Know The Well,” , “Two Getting Married In My Right Ear,” and “The Story of a Body” Screen Door Review

“Looking Up Into The Winter Stars / At The Edge of the Atlantic” Response to two panels of abstract art for Outreach Telephone Arts Project

“At The Wedding of Revenge”, “The Wake At The Wedding of The Sailor’s Bride To Be”, “Bride In Wartime Is Still A Bride” Los Angeles Review of Los Angeles

“Brides In The Winter of Wolves” Ballast

“(I Am) A Self-Replicating Disaster Made Of Weddings In My Body”  figuration: an anthology of trans writers, forthcoming in print 2025, from Gnashing Teeth Publishing
“Three Brides In My Atria Tear Apart Their Husbands” Jetfuel Review

“The Bride In My Right Thigh Wears A Wolf” Shenandoah 75th

“I Owe My Patient Side To the Bride in My Nucleus Accumbens” Hog River Press, Vol 1 Issue 2

“Leaving the Wedding in a Fever” Okay Donkey–Nominated for Best of the Net 2025

“The Groombride’s Beard Is As Long As Hope” Carte Blanche

“Before the Wedding” The Cincinnati Review

“Even Anne Lister Is In My Blood” Bluestem

Review of Failure to Comply by Cavar, Vagabond City

“For The Bride in My DNA” Philadelphia Stories Nominated for a Pushcart

2024

“It’s Not Who You Are But Where You Are”, “That Time I Exchanged Minds with a Bull Bay Magnolia” ALOCASIA

“Church Ice Cream Social or The Summer I Awoke” American Literary Review Nominated for Best Spiritual Literature, Orison Books, 2024

“When Beyonce Hits, And Sunset is Pink And Baby So Baby Blue, Self Portrait. A Boy in His Mother’s Clothes Singing Madonna’s “Live To Tell”Gulf Coast

“The Bride in My Acetabular Labrum” JMWW

“Nocturne For The Wolf Hour” like a field

“The Wolf Leapt Through Me, The Wolf Leapt/Through Me”, “Kissing the Wolf” Sonora Review

“‘Queer Love Song Loop”, “Reading Spam Mail From Chasers Makes Me Feel Something Sometimes”, “A Question for the Three Headed Trans Oracle: How Do I Know I Am Not Just Anxiety?” and “A Brief History of Secrets Keeping Me Sick or Why Can’t You Be What I Want? Teiriesan

“Wrestling Wolves” “On the Four Quarters of the World” The Bennington Review Purchase here

“A Body Belongs A Name. A Name Implies You Belong” Hayden’s Ferry Review

“The Bride In My Left Knee Breaks Open The Roasted Head Of A Wolf” midnight CHEM

“Hot August Night in the South”, “I Dress the Wolf in Flowers” Texas Review

“Wedding In The Three Chambers of My Heart”, “Widowed Brides Embedded In My Left Shoulder Sharpen Knives”, “Wedding in My Trapezius Lays In A Wide Pool Hall Down By The River” Gulf Stream

“What Does The State Teach/With My Body” Salamander 57

“A Gift” The Dodge

“The Wedding In My Chest Continues Long After I Stopped Listening” Mudroom Nominated for The Best of The Net, Sundress Publications 2024

“Name, A Container for Joy (A Bride in My Lungs, A Bride in My Ribcage, A Bride in My Heart)” Hunger Mountain

“A Poem With A Painting And A Dead Poet, A Poem With A Hole” JAKE

2023

The Answer to All These Questions is Freedom Verum Literary Press

“I Met the Wolf Half Way” The Night Heron Barks

“A Wolf Devours A Wolf Devours A Wolf” Full House Literary (UK)

“The Tea is Hot and So Are the Boys” A review of An Almanac of Useless Talents by Michael Chang, Clash Books 2022, Lambda Lit

“Nothing is Happening At the Old Coca Cola Bottling Plant” & “Mushroom Mind” EcoTheo Review, buy it here

“Drinking a Glass of Water is a Greeting”, “I Am An Emotional Turtle” Moist Poetry Journal, Queer Environment Issue

“My Body is a Home For Tiny Wolves”, “I Am The Wolf’s History Book” Meridian, 47

“seven wolves prop up the moon on the hill they gather like a rhyme”, “To Fill My Emptiness” New South

Flash Fiction, Spec Fic, Weird Fic, “Children of Tiresias” up at The Evermore Review

“What Claims Wolves Laid On My Body” Mid South Sonnets, edited by CT Salazar and Casie Dodd Here

Three new poems in Sho, including “Queerness is Infinite”, You can buy it here.

“To Get to the Queer Clinic I Have to Cross Three Bodies of Water” About Place

Diagram of a Fairy Tale” & “Self Portrait”Miracle Monocle

“I Am the Wolf’s Unending Meal”West Trade Review

“Growing Up In the Mouth of the Wolf” On the Seawall

“Two Queens in Summer” Passengers, The poem unpacked by the editors here.

Review of Miah Jeffra’s American Gospel at Lambda Literary

“Love. A Story” Variant Lit

“Estradiol Roughly Translates to a Spade” The Crawfish

“For Tamari Who Listens to Beyonce’s Renaissance Like I Do” Sierra Nevada Review

“Queer Futurism” in Queerlings Here.

“Superman Does Not Pray” The Daily Drunk

“Watcher is Wolf” A wolf adjacent poem in ReVamped, a Buffy Zine, over at the Daily Drunk.

“Shelter of the Wolf” in the new Mississippi Review Order it here.

“A Wolf Named Kyle” South Carolina Review

“Floor Plan” Fourth River Review, print, buy it here

“Curse of the Wolf Double Feature” Havehashad

Review, essay “Say Them With Me: The Disruptive Lyricism of Jos Charles” Plume

“States” Michigan Quarterly Review Listen to me read it here . Nominated for Best New Poets.

“When It Rains Indoors” & “School is in Session” Porcupine Lit

2022

“What the Wolf Fears” Blue Mountain Review

CNF, Essay “What am I Teaching With My Body” Superstition Review

“Mind the Forest “To Fellow Questions” Poetry I$ Currency

“Zombies on Fire” “Gardening with Assault Rifles” MegaBytes Zombie Poetry, Daily Drunk

“Family Legend” The Museum of Americana

“Wolf Promises of Love” Whale Road Review

Two poems in Sundays At the River, here Buy your copy here.

“For Queer Kids Doom Scrolling,” “Sometimes It’s Too Much” Coachella Review

“Abandon Hierarchies” here. , “I Put the Wolf’s Emptiness Into Me” here , Emerge Literary Journal.

“I Put the Wolf Outside Myself” Comstock Review

“Wolf in Dark Elms & other poems” Evergreen Review

“Wolf Who is Not a Wolf Plays Board Games” Mud Season Review

“I Make a Roof Out of the Wolf” “The Wolf Eats” Ilanot Review “I Make a Roof Out of the Wolf” is a Best of the Net Nominee 2023

“Caps America” The Daily Drunk

Queer theory, review “Viewing Gretchen Felker-Martin’s Manhunt through the lens of Hil Malatino’s Side Affects: On Being Trans and Feeling Bad”Beestung

Happiness Loop” Pinhole Poetry, Interview here

“Fuck the Wolf” and “Queer the Wolf” South Florida Poetry Journal

“A Brief History of My Heart”Morning Fruit

CNF, essay “Through the Clinic, I Pass” Hobart

Trans(porter) Love” Red Shirt Review, The Daily Drunk

“A Perfect Summer Day”, “I Am a Harp String” Twin Pies Literary 

“This Happened on a Friday” Anti Heroin Chic

“American Bodies” Lumiere Review Best of the Net Nominee 2022, 2nd Place Lumiere Review Poetry Contest, judged by Luther Hughes

“Notes from the Shore’ Eunoia Review

“Everytime I Buy A New Dress I Diminish the Darkness & other poems” Powders Press Gender Issue

Review of Kirstin Bock’s Glass Bikini, Barrelhouse

“Face App Poem For Gender Dysphorics” Susurru, Best of the Net Nominee 2022

“Thoroughly Asleep in the Barn” Feral, Pushcart Nominee, Best of the Net Nominee 2022

“Self Portrait as a Drunk Mogwai” Daily Drunk

“In Which I Encounter Doctor Strange” Daily Drunk

“Meteoric” Daily Drunk

“Clinics” Little Patuxent Review

2021

“Raised in the Mouth of the Wolf” Kitchen Table Quarterly Thanks Kitchen Table Quarterly for adding me to the CLMP reading list for PRIDE 2023. I’m way at the bottom

“Two Boys in a Room in a Disintegration Loop” Rogue Agnt Best of the Net Nominee 2022

2020

2019

“Catwife…” is about my cat, Shadow. “From End of America Phantasmagoria…” The Shore