I am a writer and artist based in Chicago. My work explores themes of queer identity, ecology, and decolonization.

I am currently at work on my first full-length poetry collection.

Artist Statement

In his book, The Nutmeg’s Curse, Amitav Ghosh suggests that writers and artists play as vital a role in addressing the climate crisis as scientists. This is the intention behind my work. Like Ghosh, Linda Tuhiwai Smith, Tao Leigh Goffe, Isabel Wilkerson, and countless other scholars in this field, I believe that addressing the planetary crisis means reckoning with the larger systems of colonial oppression that fuel it. Poetry, in the ways it subverts expectations of language, time, and the world around us, can move us collectively toward a seismic shift in consciousness and a world in which all beings are liberated.

“A necessary first step toward finding solutions is to find a common idiom and a shared story — a narrative of humility in which humans acknowledge their mutual dependence not just on each other, but on ‘all our relatives.’”
Amitav Ghosh, The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis