Passion Projects
Writing
I'm a poet, essayist, and fiction writer. I cannot stay on one project for too long, so I tend to have several going at once. Currently, I'm seeking to publish a poetry chapbook I've written called Heaven Is Now, and I am working on my first novel.
Dance
When I was in elementary and middle school, I was frequently bullied by athletic girls and consequently, I avoided gym class and team sports as much as I could. But now, as an adult, I have come to realize the potential of my body as means of creative expression. To that end, I've been learning bellydance and dabbling in some other dance styles. I tend to keep my dance videos off of social media, but that may soon change. Stay tuned.
Voice Work
I greatly enjoy doing audiobook narration and have been narrating on Audible on and off since 2016. Since a controlled environment is necessary to record audio of quality, I have not always been able to create such spaces, and so my list of credits isn't as long as I'd like. I hope to begin recording again once I have the space to dedicate to a sound-dampened booth.
Cool Stuff I've Created
Films
"Someday You'll Be My Wife." Short Film. Killer Goose Films. 2016. Writer/director.
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"Haunted Heart." Short Film. Killer Goose Films. 2015. Co-writer.
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"Rack 'Em Up." Short Film. Killer Goose Films. 2014. Co-writer.
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"Fuzz." Short Film. Killer Goose Films. 2013. Co-writer.
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"Three Guys, One Hole." Short Film. Killer Goose Films. 2012. Co-writer.
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"Feed A." Short Film. Killer Goose Films. 2012. Story.
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"Redistribution." Short Film. Killer Goose Films. 2012. Co-writer.
Poetry
"Hold Tight." Poem. 300 Days of Sun, Vol. 2, Issue 4. May 2023.
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"Positive, Negative, Ground." Poem. peculiar, A Queer Literary Journal, Vol. 9. 2022.
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“Picnic in the Poconos.” Poem. Broken Cord: An Anthology of Writing About Alzheimer's and Dementia. 4 June 2021.
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“Something Is Different.” Poem. Dunes Review, Vol. 25, No. 1. April 2021.
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“Daughter of Bilitis” and “Radclyffe Hall.” Poems. Whiskey Tit Journal, Issue #3.
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“Billy Pappas.” Poem. Placeholder Press, Issue #2. 16 October 2020.
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“Song for Cressida.” Poem. The Bosphorus Review of Books. 2 May 2020.
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“Finite Patience.” Poem. Molecule, Issue 2. 15 March 2020.
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“Ode to an Animal.” Poem. River Heron Review, Issue 3.1. February 2020.
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“Sign Language.” Poem. Inklette Magazine, Issue IX. January 2020.
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“Impermanence Alight.” Poem. Philadelphia Stories, Winter Issue 2020. December 2019.
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“We’ve Been Fucking.” Poem. The Athena Review, Issue 1. December 2019.
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“Forest Funeral.” Poem. Pennsylvania Bards Southeast Poetry Review. Poetry Anthology. October 2019.
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"Lips Split," "Woman Patiently Turning Her Lover Into a Good Man," "I Can Grasp Your Sadness," "llex paraguariensis," "Socks and Underwear." Poems. Ginosko Literary Journal, Issue 20. February 2018.
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Reaching Beyond the Saguaros: A Collaborative Prosimetric Travelogue. Book of Poetry, Contributor. May 2017.
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“Ladies in the Waiting Room.” Poem. Mad Rush Magazine, Vol. 1. Winter 2012.
Articles
“Bittersweet Burdens: On Sonia Greenfield’s Letdown.” Book Review. Entropy. 1 June 2020.
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“No Children Allowed.” Personal Essay. bluntly magazine. 24 November 2019.
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“A Conversation with Heather Lang Cassera.”
Article. Black Fox Literary Magazine. April 2019.​​
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"Hilltop Conservancy Says Deer Culling Benefits Forest.” Article. Verona-Cedar Grove Patch. November 2010.
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“Thinking Beyond the Pulp: Local Orthodontist on Quest for a Paperless Office”. Article. Verona-Cedar Grove Patch. November 2010.
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“Elementary School Students Helping to Make Verona Idle-Free”. Article. Verona-Cedar Grove Patch. November 2010.
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“Halloween Doesn’t Have to be Scary for the Environment”. Article. Verona-Cedar Grove Patch. October 2010.
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“Death and the Environment”. Article. Verona-Cedar Grove Patch. October 2010.
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“County drops soccer field plans in Glen Rock.” Article. Glen Rock Gazette. March 2010.
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“Glen Rock is at the heart of college student’s short film.” Article. Glen Rock Gazette. March 2010.
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“Glen Rock Borough Council to mull senior housing options.” Article. Glen Rock Gazette. March 2010.
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“Live Band Review—Adelante.” Article. Inferno art newspaper. Vol. 4, Issue 6, November-December 2006.
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“Live Band Review—D.O.G.”. Article. Inferno art newspaper. Vol. 4, Issue 5, September-October 2006.
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“Live Band Review—LaMora.” Article. Inferno art newspaper. Vol. 4, Issue 4, July-August 2006.
Past Projects
Someday You'll Be My Wife
Way back in the spring of 2015, I sat down with the members of Tigerman and we brainstormed ideas for a music video for their song, "Someday You'll Be My Wife." By June, we had a script, and by the end of July, we had begun shooting. Even though the band were in the midst of music festival season, we still shot intermittently throughout the summer and completed principle photography in early October. We screened a sneak preview at Triumph Brewery in New Hope, PA, and then went back in for visual effects. On April 16, 2016, less than one year after we began, we proudly premiered what had grown into a music short film.
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"Someday You'll Be My Wife" has screened at the New York City Independent Film Festival, NewFilmmakers New York, and Golden Door Film Festival among others, and is a Gold Cindy Award winner.
#tweetyourperiod
It started with a blog, and a basic sense of feeling fed-up with the stigma of menstruation.
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This became my Twitter campaign, #tweetyourperiod. I wanted to open a dialogue. I wanted to change the conversation, or lack thereof, about an event that over half the population goes through, has gone through, or will go through, monthly. It was important to me to be as open as possible, no matter how uncomfortable that might make me. The reaction has been overwhelmingly positive and galvanizing for this #RedSummer 2016 campaign, with coverage in Self, Bustle, Refinery29, HelloGiggles, Yahoo! UK, Metro UK, Metro (Netherlands), and others.
