selected poems

“the mind-mage’s daughter,” a poem about complicated legacies, telepathy as temptation, and even more complicated love… and my completely jossed theories about the Magic the Gathering storyline. (The Lorelei Signal, 2026)

“on leaving the hivemind,” a poem from the series “Infinite Branches: Queer Speculative Disability Poetry in Conversation.” (Interstellar Flight Press, 2026)

a poem about my obsession with Jason Momoa’s glam rock villain in the Fast and Furious franchise (the engine idling, 2024)

a poem about rebellious necromancers and trans joy as defiance, in YA horror anthology Bleeding Hearts Beat Still (Haunted Words Press, 2024)

“eyes made of teeth,” a poem tilting its head through a looking glass at real-life coercive control (Moonday Magazine #2, 2024)

a slightly steamy poem about the inherent fascination of Beautiful Women Trapped In Demonic Pacts (Carmine Pen, 2025)

“traumabonding dumpster clown,” a poem which is actually about seeing yourself in an anime character (horrorsleazetrash, 2023)

“hemiplegic migraine as willing human sacrifice,” a poem about polytheism and neurology, which gets a title drop because it’s my favorite title I’ve ever come up with (Eternal Haunted Summer, 2023)

two poems about the movie “The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes” (3shotcine, 2024)

this poem about Pie'oh'pah, the canonically nonbinary Clive Barker character (Hypnopomp, 2018) (apparently i was still marketing myself as cis when I published this, classic egg move)

another poem in Strange Horizons, about zombies and grief (I’m honestly really proud of this one) (Strange Horizons, 2018)

a linked duet of magical realism romance poems (Cabinet of Heed, 2017)

an experimental poem about being a changeling (Liminality, 2015)

this poem about stereotypes in pulp sci-fi (Strange Horizons, 2016)

short stories go here

a short story featuring a tough-as-nails female detective who rescues a traumatized vampire prince (Whumpy Printing Press, 2025)

a dreamy romantic retelling (folk music! YEARNING!) of Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Nightingale” (Corvid Queen, 2024)

a retelling of the fairy tale “Kate Crackernuts” with a disabled love interest and a queer protagonist (Corvid Queen, 2018)

a short story about queer polyamorous people healing from trauma in a solarpunk utopia (Vulture Bones, 2018)

a short story about a lesbian with visual impairment, written when i was struggling with vision due to undiagnosed migraines, anthologized here (Ink & Locket Press, 2017)

this short story about a traumatized lesbian with an eating disorder who’s sacrificed everyone she loves to protect her home planet (Breath and Shadow, 2017)

this lesbian age gap werewolf romance (Luna Station Quarterly, 2017)

& a lot of other work (as Kayla Bashe) that I’m not posting here because it’s old or the links are broken

but this story published in Mirror Dance (2016), about an evil queen’s daughter and the heroine her mother has captured, still holds up! plus I think it’s the first enemies-to-lovers romance I ever wrote