substack 

Heartmouth — my Substack newsletter, a project in intimacy, autofiction, desire, and gender-unease. Free + paid subscriptions available (for a very low cost!).  Essays and fiction and some weird in-between.

featured links & press

The Horror of Gender: Sof Sears’ Stories About Society — profile/interview, 34th Street, 2023

L. Barry Pick Prize for Best Undergraduate Thesis Recipient — UPenn English Department, 2023

Workshop Production of Undergraduate Major’s Play I Know the End — UPenn GSWS Department, 2023 (produced by Ricardo Bracho)

Medium’s ‘The Edge of Adulthood’ - featured interview, 2018

productions & readings

I Know the End — original play, workshop production (you can see photos & listen to a monologue from it here) performed in Philadelphia, April 14-16 2023, workshop production, produced by Ricardo Bracho & co-sponsored by the Rotunda & UPenn’s GSWS Department. *1st Place of Penn Dramatic Writing Prize.* 

XFic Reading — Kelly Writers House, Fall 2022 (I read an excerpt of a piece about deathcare & love, etc)

“A Celebration of Syd Zolf’s Book No One’s Witness”Fall 2021, Kelly Writers House, featured poet

projects & research

"Unseamly Girlhoods: Restitching Shirley Jackson’s Hangsaman With Shelley Jackson’s Patchwork Girl.” — 2023, English Honors Thesis, completed over the course of a year at UPenn, directed by Dr. Whitney Trettien. Please reach out for a link—I have both a PDF version and my experimental digital humanities* project! This thesis was awarded the annual departmental thesis prize.

“Hangsawoman” — 2023, Gender & Sexuality Studies Honors Thesis, completed over the course of a year at UPenn, advised by Ricardo Bracho. A critical-creative, experimental, hypertext-lit/autofiction/auto-theory project (about girlhood, trauma, disappearance, narratology, ft Ethel Cain…) you can access here. This project was also awarded the Gender & Sexuality Studies departmental thesis prize.

“Hauntologies” — a digital, speculative “archive” (critical-creative) inspired by Saidiya Hartman’s notion of the speculative, and repurposing Derrida’s “hauntology” as queer theory and experience.

“Unwomen: The Monstrous-Feminine in American Pop Culture” — A digital hybrid archive-creative-work exploring the monstrous-feminine and all its intersections, created for an English seminar. Spring 2020.

Archer Literary Conference “Lit&” 2017-2018: “Call Me By Your Name, Giovanni’s Room, and Queering Coming-of-Age Narratives”