forthcoming + recent

Butoh performance: “In your mishandling, I renew my space” presented by Raze the Whitebox, The Philosophical Research Society, Los Angeles, CA, February 5th, 2025

Full-length poetry collection, TBD

Album cover: Lanair’s Flower in Zurich, Chris Siders, 2024

Video: Etape 6 - L'Amoureux, FOLIE CURIEUSE, Vaudour Troubadour, Marseille, France, 2023

publications

poetry
Two Untitled Poems, ÖMËGÄ, Metatron Press, 2017

How to Eat Yourself, Spilled Milk, 2017

Who Brought the Storm, ExPat Press, 2017

Undertow, ExPat Press, 2017

Over, HEAVY ATHLETICS, 2016

Shadow on Bone, HEAVY ATHLETICS, 2016

please open a door for me, ÖMËGÄ, Metatron Press, 2016

The Sinking, Helix Syntax: The 41st Summer Writing Program Magazine, Naropa University, 2015

Three Untitled Poems, LuNaMoPoLiS no.3: On Your Person, The Lune, 2015

Pause for Your Mortality, The Lune, 2015

Three-Liners and Capital Heist, THWARP SHORTS 3.2, Semicolon, 2014

Commentary on a Tibetan Book, LuNaMoPoLiS no.2: Please Do Touch, The Lune, 2014

Untitled, LuNaMoPoLiS no.2: Please Do Touch, The Lune, 2014

Chapbook: gills in rain gutters, Kavyayantra Press, 2013

Excerpt from Landlocked Madness, The Riddles We Talked In, Semicolon, 2013

Where Trains Divide, Heart-Lipped Spider, Semicolon, 2012

prose
My Size Dancing Barbie, Voices, (b)OINK, 2017

Jade Cruz Quinn's “of topological shift,” Boulder Tattoo Project, 2014

photography
Album cover: Lanair’s Flower in Zurich, Chris Siders, 2024

Hands, Morning/Mourning, Le Petit Press, 2018

Wendy C. Ortiz, fields, 2017

Matt Clifford, Ballad of Todd Last Year, Cherry Publications, 2017

CAConrad, fields, 2016

Mira Gonzalez, fields, 2016

nonfiction + journalism
Interview with CAConrad, fields, 2016

J’Lyn Chapman with J. Hillis Miller, The Conversant, 2013

Fail Better, Shambhala Times Community News Magazine, 2014

We should know what we’re eating, The Signal, 2012

audio
Vocals: My Addiction, FemNova, 2021

film
Short film: Please Open A Door for Me, 2018
Video: A Rusted Rail, 30/30 Poetic Vision, Jack Kerouac School, 2015

modeling
The Deeper Show, photo series by Marcos Rivera, Las Vegas, NV, 2017

exhibition
Photography: dear friend and murder suite, NYCorrespondence, Kickstarter Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, 2014

performance

performance art
Butoh performance: “In your mishandling, I renew my space” presented by Raze the Whitebox, The Philosophical Research Society, Los Angeles, CA, February 5th, 2025

Normal Dinner Party with Jeremy Kennedy, Collective Arts Incubator, Los Angeles, CA, 2017

readings by invitation
Cal State LA, Los Angeles, CA, 2019

I’m Alive In Los Angeles, Letters to My City Release Party with Mike Sonsken, Poetry at the Space, Los Angeles, CA, 2019

The Cosmic Collective: A Group Poetry Reading, New Orleans Poetry Festival, New Orleans Healing Center, New Orleans, LA, 2019

Poetry at the Ben Montgomery Mile, Zephyr Community Art Studio, Santa Fe, NM, 2018

Guest Artist appointment with musical accompaniment by Paddy Pearse, Manifesting Visions, Aware Project, Collective HQ/Counterpunch Studios, Los Angeles, CA, 2017

Reading: [Dis]connected, Naropa Writing Center, Naropa University, Boulder, CO, 2013

talks + presentations

Workshop: “How to Read the Tarot Without Guidebooks,” Public Fruit Co., 2021

Panel: “The Braided River,” Summer Writing Program, Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, Naropa University, 2015

Presentation: Writing Matters Conference, College of the Canyons, 2012

awards + honors

Please Open A Door For Me, New Industry Finalist, Oaxaca FilmFest, 2019

Amiri Baraka Award, Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, Naropa University, 2016

press

Video: Etape 6 - L'Amoureux, FOLIE CURIEUSE, Vaudour Troubadour, Marseille, France, 2023

Radio interview: Amazing Stories from Skid Row, KKLA 99.5 FM, Los Angeles, CA, 2018

Radio show: Show hosted by Jeremy Kennedy and co-host Rebecca Ramirez, KCHUNG 1630 AM, Chinatown, Los Angeles, CA, 2017

New Digital Chapbook from JKS Student, Jack Kerouac School, 2014

Let Them Eat Cake: Across the Threshold: A Reading Hosted by the Naropa Writing Center by Joseph Navarro, Jack Kerouac School, 2014

The Story of Semicolon, Boulder Poetry Scene, 2013

education

formal education
Bachelor of Arts in Writing & Literature Naropa University, Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, Boulder, CO, 2015

poetry + the arts
Four Queens, Denver, CO
Selah Saterstrom, 2022
CAConrad, September 2022

(W)rites of Passage, Boulder, CO
Sarah Elizabeth Schantz, Winter 2022–present
Selah Saterstrom, September–November 2021
CAConrad, May 2021

ArtCenter College of Design, Pasadena, CA, Fall 2021

Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles, CA
Will O’Loughlen, October 2021
Lisa Marr and Paolo Davanzo, Winter 2021

The Home School, Hudson, NY
TC Tolbert, July 2021

Kundiman, New York, NY
Nayomi Munaweera, March 2021

Machine Project, Los Angeles, CA
Asher Hartman and Haruko Tanaka, Winter 2017

Summer Writing Program, Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University, Boulder, CO
CAConrad, 2015–2016
Kameron Bashi, 2015
Eleni Sikelianos, 2015
Letterpress printing with Aaron Cohick, 2015

Great Books Summer Program, Thomas Aquinas College, Santa Paula, CA, 2009

meditation + yoga
Kinship Yoga School, Los Angeles, CA, 2024
Yoga + Mythos 10-hour YYT with Sri Sita Dass Ji

Against the Stream Meditation Center, Venice, CA, 2024

Point Horizon Institute, Ravendale, CA, 2022–2023

The Berkeley Spire, Berkeley, CA, 2019–2022

Yoga with Anjali Budreski, Montpelier, VT, 2021

Big Bear Retreat Center, Big Bear City, CA, 2018–2019

Against the Stream Meditation Center with Dave Smith, Malibu, CA, 2016–2018

School of Humanity & Awareness, Atlanta, GA, 2017

Naropa University, Boulder, CO, 2012–2015
Samatha-Vipassana with Lama Tenpa
Yoga with Nataraja Kallio
Shamanic journeying with Marlow Brooks

Dharma Ocean with Reggie Ray, Boulder, CO, 2014

Nalandabodhi Colorado with Lama Tenpa, Boulder, CO, 2012–2014 (Vajrayana)

Boulder Shambhala Center with Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche, Boulder, CO, 2013 (Vajrayana)

experience

professional
Contract: Senior Content Designer, Intuit, 2025–present

Content Strategist, Julia Balfour, 2024–2025

Freelance: Growth Strategist, Empty, 2024

Freelance: Web Strategist, Center for Transformation, 2024

Contract: Content Designer, H&R Block, 2023

Content Designer, Affirm, 2022–2023

Web Content Manager, Articulate, 2022

Associate Marketing Manager, Articulate, 2021–2022

Digital Marketing Specialist, Articulate, 2020–2021

Content Strategist, The Moran Group, 2019–2020

Media Resource Specialist, Union Rescue Mission, 2018–2019

Employment Center Representative, Union Rescue Mission, 2016–2018

Employment Resource Assistant, Union Rescue Mission, 2016

Contract: SAT Preparation Instructor, Boys and Girls Club of America, 2016

Contract: Private Tutor, TutorDoctor, 2016

English Instructor and Tutor, Opportunities for Learning Charter Schools, 2015–2016

Faculty Liasion, Summer Writing Program, Naropa University, 2015

Academic Tutor, Youth Policy Institute, 2015

Marketing Coordinator, East-West Wellness, 2012–2014

Internship: Editorial Intern, Shambhala Times Community News Magazine, 2013

Freelance: Copywriter, VimPeople, 2012

Counselor, Camp Whittle Outdoor Science School, YMCA of Metropolitan Los Angeles, 2011

volunteer + pro bono
Events, The Philosophical Research Society, Los Angeles, 2024–present

Board Member, Covenant Home for Children, Georgetown, Guyana, 2017–2019

Kitchen & Meal Service, Union Rescue Mission, 2015–2016

Campaign Strategist, Heaven on Earth Society for Animals, 2015

Residential Camp Counselor, Camp Whittle and Camp Round Meadow, YMCA of Metropolitan Los Angeles–North Valley Family YMCA, 2008–2012