The Works of Their Hands
The Living Works
Poetry and prose published under my name. (Some were originally published under my deadname but have been corrected.)
Live Publications – Poetry, Nonfiction, Fiction
You Can’t Put Prison in a Poem | Hayden’s Ferry Review (issue 74)
They Never Expected This to Happen | #EnbyLife (April 8, 2024)
I Learned My Love for the Beatles | NonBinary Review, Issue #35: Old Friends (March 2024)
Author Interview (Q & A) | NonBinary Review (Issue #35: Old Friends, March 2024)
Anatomy Lessons | RogueAgent (Issue 104, November 2023)
In Which She Embarked Upon a Voyage | Honorable Mention, 2023 Muriel Craft Bailey Poetry contest — The Comstock Review (Fall/Winter 2023)
Lightning Rods | PEN America — Honorable Mention, Poetry — 2022 Prison Writing contest
Eugene Cernan, Last Man on the Moon | PEN America — Honorable Mention, Poetry — 2020 Prison Writing Contest
Why I Write | PEN America — Honorable Mention, Essay — 2020 Prison Writing Contest
Time Reversal Invariance | PEN America — Winner, 2nd Place, Poetry — 2019 Prison Writing Contest
Geode | PEN America — Winner, 3rd Place, Edward Bunker Prize, Fiction — 2019 Prison Writing Contest
Gravity Makes the Heart Grow Heavy (with video) | Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop
Wake Up; Philosopher’s Song; Already Sick and Tired; Doomsday Preppers | Evening Street Press (DIY Reads)
The Graveyard
Everything below here was published under my deadname. (About deadnaming: Wikipedia.)
Other Publications
There are more. Some were limited editions or otherwise not generally available.
Disaster Is in the Eye of the Beholder | Poetry (February 2021)
(The Poetry fix is in progress, or so they claim. Slower than molasses in Minnesota winter….)
Time Reversal Invariance, read by Rachel Eliza Griffiths at Break Out: A 2019 PEN America Prison Writing Awards Celebration
Geode, read by Shaun Leonardo at Break Out 2019
The Emptiness of Days | SLANT: A Journal of Poetry (Volume 36.2 — Spring 2022)
Elegy for the Sniped | The Comstock Review (Spring/Summer 2022)
The Aftermath; Half Life | The Blotter (April 2022)
The Tide Comes In | Creosote (Spring 2022 Volume XXI, Number 1)
Only Trying to Help | Blue Collar Review (Vol. 25 Issue 1, Fall 2021)
Again, Again | SLANT: A Journal of Poetry (Vol. XXXV, 2021)
The Conception | Blue Collar Review (Vol. 24 Issue 4, Summer 2021)
All Gunwork and No Gunplay Makes Jack a Dull Gunboy | Grasslimb (Vol. 18, No. 1, June 2020)
Rest Stop | Muse Literary Journal (Spring 2020)
Falling | Creosote (Spring 2020 Volume XIX, Number 1)
Anthologies My Work Is In (Poetry & Prose)
Variations on an Undisclosed Location (2022 Prison Writing Awards Anthology)
Breathe into the Ground (2020 Prison Writing Awards Anthology)
As I Hear the Rain (2019 Prison Writing Awards Anthology) — Moon Palace Books
Flying Kites: Narratives of Prison Literacies in Essays and Art — Moon Palace Books