Conquest or Coincidence?

Today, at the Austin Poetry Society’s Online Annual Awards Celebration, my poem “Growing Faces” won first place in The Unexpected Award. I’m excited that this weird, somewhat creepy little poem will appear in the 2019-2020 volume of Best Austin Poetry and can’t wait to see it come out in print later this year. In theContinue reading “Conquest or Coincidence?”

News, Updates, and a Little Havoc

Hello! Happy Summer! It’s the end of July, which means… 1) Going outside in Austin in the afternoon = recreating the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark. 2) The start of the new school year is close enough that it can no longer be ignored, so I’m desperately trying to finish all the books I’veContinue reading “News, Updates, and a Little Havoc”

If I Get Eaten By a Chupacabra, Give the Cat His Medicine

Nature gives us gifts every day. Today I’ve already had my share. It’s summer, which means great bursts of laziness followed by great bursts of creativity, culminating in me keeping vampire hours. I’ve been staying up way too late the past week doing everything and nothing. It’s been great, but I’m determined to get backContinue reading “If I Get Eaten By a Chupacabra, Give the Cat His Medicine”