writing
fiction
“Backwash” — Peatsmoke, Fall 2024“Baby Teeth” — Solstice, Fiction Contest Winner, Summer 2024
“Roadkill” — Waxwing, Fall 2022
“First Girl (to die in a horror movie)” — Heartmouth, March 2023
“Like a Body From the Balcony” — Voices, 2019
nonfiction
“Casting Off: a Triptych” — Diagram, July 2022“Death Archive” — Xfic, Fall 2022; watch me read an excerpt here
“Love Songs for a Haunted House” — Hot Knife, Fall 2022
“Why Won’t My Orchid Bloom (& Other Burning Life Questions)” — Human Parts, 2020
“Anatomy of a Girl-Poet” — print, 2019 Sonora Review Nonfiction Award
“The Language of Desire” — Human Parts, 2019
“Rockhaven: California’s Feminist Sanitarium” — LA Times, 2017 (+ photo essay)
poetry
“Question 1: How Will You Become Your Mother?” — Cleaver, Issue 45, March 2024, *after Bhanu Kapil2 Poems: “Cross Breeze” & “Halloween, 2022”— Cagibi, March 2024
“Composite Organisms” — Birdcoat Quarterly, 2023
“for the friend who can’t unlatch the door yet” — Fishbarrel, Winter 2022
“Headlock/On Poetry” — print, Driftwood Press
“3 Poems” — Cathexis Northwest Press Featured Poet, 2019 (+ brief interview)
“Mangoes” — Rookie, 2016
heartmouth (substack) essays
“On Need” — 2023
“Dolores, Online” — 2023
“Daughters of (Ethel) Cain” — 2023
“text me when u get home” — 2023
“The Roys Are Dead; Long Live the Roys” — 2023
“Letter to an Old Poet (Sof’s Version)” — 2023
“Typification and Girl-Selves” — 2023
“Fangirl is a gender in itself (on TLOU, pt 2)” — 2023
“A Long, Long Time” — 2023
“Killing the Cool Girl” — 2022
“Horror is a Love Story” — 2022
regular columns (on music, literature, feminism, etc)
“Hunger Portraits” — Adolescent.net, 2020
“Writing Desire” — Lithium Magazine, 2020
“Killing Eve: Queerness, Subtext, & Monstrous Women” — Adolescent.net, 2019
“Author Melissa Broder on The Pisces & Purpose” — Adolescent.net, 2018
“Smart Girls” — Adolescent.net, 2018
“Mitski’s Be the Cowboy: the portrait of the artist is a portrait of us” Adolescent.net, 2018
“Sally Rooney’s Normal People: an Excavation of Modern Love” — Adolescent.net, 2019
“Girls’ Fan Art Isn’t Embarrassing—It’s Radical” — Adolescent.net, 2019
“The unromance of growing up: On Vampire Weekend’s Father of the Bride” — Adolescent.net, 2019
“A review of Stella Donnelly’s Beware of the Dogs” — Adolescent.net, 2019
“Girl Crush” — Adolescent.net, 2018
“Damaged Girls, or How Putney Subverts the Lolita Trope” — Adolescent.net, 2018
“Brutality-Gazing” — Adolescent.net, 2019
“An Anger-Hued Girlhood” — LA Times, 2018