books​ & Chapbooks

"Dream of Xibalba is a long and hypnotic meditation on rediscovery. Each page spirals out from the page before in a manner of breathless recognition: 'You open yourself / your mouth your eyes your forehead / with a sharp stone carried from childhood.' This is not a poetry of fearlessness but of the journey one takes in spite of fear. 'This is what you must listen for.'"

​—Jericho Brown, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Tradition

FORTHCOMING from Orison Books! Dream of Xibalba — FULL LENGTH COLLECTION (Winner of the 2021 Orison Prize)

Swarm Queen's Crown — FULL LENGTH COLLECTION (Fathom Books, 2016) Finalist for Lambda Literary Award

Total Memory — CHAPBOOK (Finishing Line Press, 2016)

The Sundering — CHAPBOOK (Poetry Society of America, 2009) — introduction by Linda Gregg

Little Fugues — CHAPBOOK (Sola Books, 2014)

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Selected publications

Three poems: "Visitation"; "The Owl"; "from Scenes" (Brooklyn Rail, June 2022)

"[On the one side]" (Zócalo Public Square, August 2019)

"The Migrants' Daughter" (Portland Monthly, August 2018)

"City at the End", "A Voice", "Thinking Alone", "Flechita" (Nailed, August 2016)

"Fourth Form" (Orion Magazine, November/December 2013)

"The Place Where I Write", Orion Blog, September 2012

Excerpts from "Dream of Xibalba": "Beneath you"; "the owl" (Iterant, Issue 3, Winter 2021)

"[from Xibalba]" (Poem-a-Day by Academy of American Poets, June 2019)

"In the Afternoon" (Orion Magazine, September/October 2012) Nominated for Best New Poets 2013

"The Bird" featured for the Ten Year Anniversary of the Chapbook Fellowship program. Poetry Society of America Blog, 2013.

"Afternoon Walk with Death" Poetry + Film: Stephanie Adams-Santos; Poetry + Music: Timmy Straw. This collaboration was presented as part of "Vestibule" at Creative Mornings in Portland, OR, January 2017.

"Then Prison Yard" & "The Woman at Home", Drunk in a Midnight Choir, Spring 2017

"Through the Long Greenhouse" (Guernica Magazine, August, 2013)

Poems selected by Joanna Klink for Guest Feature: "The Sheepfold", 'Disinherited We Weep for Dust", "Insectan Order", Phantasm", "River Beneath", "Talking with Trees", "Full of Strange Experience", "Between the Buildings". West Branch Wired, Winter 2014

Excerpt of poems presented at Poetry Press Week, Portland, OR, June 2016. Featuring Octaviano Merecias Cuevas (reader), and the shrine-builders: Alma Adams, Paty Vertner, and Carmen Gronholm.

"Woodcut", Backwords Press, Fall 2017

"Secrets" (Fog Machine, August 2016)