My first full-length collection of poetry, Myth of the Garbage Patch, was published on THOUSANDS Press in May 2026. Myth of the Garbage Patch takes an anticolonial feminist approach to marine plastic pollution and consists of experimental, critical ecological poems contextualized by a brief set of essays, all written between 2013-2018. Available here.
What do marine plastic pollution and land stewardship with small ruminants have to do with each other? I wrote a bit about this in my review of Kim De Wolff's magnificent Synthetic Frontiers: Ocean Plastics and the Persistence of Trash Islands (MIT Press, 2025) for the Oakland Review of Books.
Gregory Conway interviewed me for Lønningspils, an online magazine of Nordic literature. We discussed my artistic research on the west coast of Sweden, translation, bringing poetry off the page, and more. Thank you, Gregory.
It was a pleasure to present on some of my work using feminist methods to tracing plastic pollution on the west coast of Sweden as an extension of corporate power at the University of California, Davis Feminist Research Institute. Many thanks to Dr. Mayra Sánchez Barba and Dr. Sarah McCullough for the invitation.
Roshan Krishnan interviewed me about my interdisciplinary feminist environmental justice work merging critical and creative methods on his podcast, the Rift. Thank you, Roshan.
I’m deeply pleased to have two poems from my project on coastal rural everyday life and labor published in Rabbit 40: Extinction.
I had the complete and utter privilege of translating the author’s note for Sun City by Tove Jansson, one of my very favorite artists. The novel, out on New York Review Books in their Classics series, is available here.
An article I co-wrote with Dr. Deniss Martinez, about the California Public Domain Allottee Association’s work advocating for public domain allottees’ stewardship of their Native lands, has been published in the Winter 2024/25 issue of News from Native California.
I delivered a keynote talk at the University of California, Davis Coastal and Marine Sciences Institute's Spring 2024 Symposium titled "Approaching the Unquantifiable: Creative Feminist Methods at the Water's Edge." Many thanks to Dr. Brooke Benson and Dr. Tracie Hayes for the invitation.
Three poems, "spontaneous land trust," "a vulture on every post," and "salt the leeches" are published in Space on Space.
I performed three excerpts from my manuscript Hold Fast at the 2023 Geographic Indigenous Futures Symposium, Geographic Indigenous Futures of the Salish Sea on July 6, 2023. Thank you to Dr. Niiyokamigaabaw Deondre Smiles for the invitation.
I co-edited, with Dr. Melody Jue, a collection of photo essays for a special issue of the University of California Humanities Research Institute’s Foundry, Holding Sway: Seaweeds and the Politics of Form. The essays address Indigenous kelp stewardship in the face of colonialism, marine legacies of militarism, feminist friendships, and much more.
Wind Tide invited me to collaborate with them by contributing vocals to a song on their album Sings. It’s called “Weird Tide.” The album was released on Cached Media in November 2022.
I exhibited large-scale poetry addressing petrochemical pollution at Dörren: Det visionära tomrummet/The Door: the visionary void at Vague Research Studios in Gothenburg, Sweden from October 7-30, 2022. Thank you, Dr. Kajsa G. Eriksson.
This essay was published in Zócalo Public Square in August 2022.
An excerpt of a poem, “Barnacle,” was published in Paperbark Literary Magazine Issue 03 in April 2022.
A record, Tethers, I composed from artistic research on marine pollution at the University of California, Davis Bodega Marine Laboratory was released on Full Spectrum Records in December 2021. Co-produced with Andrew Weathers with cover art by Gretchen Korsmo. The album is available here.
An excerpt of a poem, “Purity Subscription,” was published in in issue 17 of g u e s t: a journal of guest editors, edited by Melanie Dennis Unrau, June 2021. This issue is available here.
I reflected on my artistic research in Bodega Bay as a Russell J. and Dorothy S. Bilinski Fellow at the Bodega Marine Laboratory on the UC Davis Coastal and Marine Sciences Institute’s blog in May 2021.
A poem, “Vortex of Light (Ice Memoriam),” was published in Energy Culture: Art and Theory on Oil and Beyond, edited by Dr. Jeff Diamanti and Dr. Imre Szeman, in November 2019.
A photo essay I wrote, “From the Waterline,” was published in Canadian Art in November 2018.
An essay I wrote, “On Marine Debris as a Form of Gendered Violence,” was published on the UCLA Center for the Study of Women’s Chemical Entanglements blog in February 2017.
Essay, “Closed Loop Dead Matter: How Trash in the Ocean Is Affecting Our Lives on Land,” in GUTS Canadian Feminist Magazine, November 2015.
