Updates

Following my deep enjoyment of teaching my first workshop in YEARS for LitArtsRI (Love, Death, and Depression: Moving Beyond Cliche When Writing Emotional Poetry – it’ll be back!) I’m outlining a new one that I’m thinking about offering this fall. The Beautiful Grotesque: The Power in Writing Uncomfortable Poetry will be both exploratory and generative, and focus on imagery, topics, and sentiments that we may naturally recoil from. I credit this idea to a workshop prompt I got from Aimee Nezhukumatathil at the Looking Glass Rock Writer’s Conference: to make a list of things you fear, and then write an ode to one of them. I wrote Ode to the Leech in response!

FINALLY putting together all my summer notes, maps, and inspiration photos into one big reference for Witch Machine book revisions. And when it’s done… I hope I can get the drive and courage to actually apply all these new ideas. When that’s done (end of the year is the goal) 2025 will be all about Birds of Graceborne (Carmilla meets Crimson Peak gothic horror set in historical Rhode Island) and also continuing to explore female monsters and transformation myths for my poetry collection Hello, Please Cut Me Down.

I’ll also be vending at several shows over the fall as well as Thistle & Crow Studio! If you’d like to say high, follow me on IG for upcoming appearances.