Selected Poems & Prose
forthcoming
"Double-Voweled: An Experiment" (lyric essay) in Cream City Review
"What Bears No Fruit" (lyric essay) in South Dakota Review
"Early Summer" (poem) in Bear Review
"What Bears No Fruit" (lyric essay) in South Dakota Review
"Early Summer" (poem) in Bear Review
published work
"Monster" (poem) in Zone 3
"Oil City, PA" and "[interiority]" (poems) in Ocean State Review
"The Boy Is Now an Obituary" (essay) in MAYDAY Magazine
"How to Conquer" and "Spoil" (poems) in Southern Indiana Review
Review of Atomizer by Elizabeth A. I. Powell in Colorado Review
"Ivy in Every Parallel Universe" (poem) in Blackbird
"And Yet There Is Hope," a review of Dialogues with Rising Tides by Kelli Russell Agodon in EcoTheo Review
"Hurricane Season" (poem) in Sycamore Review
"[suburbs]" and "[audience]" (prose poems/micro memoirs) in Birdcoat Quarterly
"[dolls]" (prose poem/mico memoir) in Tinderbox Poetry Journal
"Genetic" and "Love in Anthropocene" (poems) in The Account: A Journal of Poetry, Prose, and Thought
"Extinction Theory" (poem) in Ruminate
"Pretty Lips," "The Body in Every Parallel Universe," "Mass Extinction Virtues," "[make believe]," "Armor" (poems) in The Fourth River
"Silence and Song," a review of Nightingale by Paisley Rekdal, in AGNI
"End Credits" (poem) in Poetry International
“[plant life]” (poem) in West Branch
"[warning: reenactment]" and "[scale]" (poems) in Alaska Quarterly Review
"Darwin's Theory of Natural Selection in Every Parallel Universe" and "Westward Expansion" (poems) in Cherry Tree
"The Body Is a Fragile Experiment" and Machine Hymn" (poems) in Gulf Coast Online Exclusives
"Papermaking" (flash fiction) in The Boiler
"Nocturne" (poem) in Pleiades (Summer 2018)
“Carnivore,” “Drafted into the Navy at the End of the War, the Grandfather Assists with Autopsies Conducted on the Victims of Hiroshima and Nagasaki,” “The Grandfather Stationed at the Air Force Base, North Africa” (prose poems) in Gold Wake Live, Issue 3
“Self Portrait as Mermaid Midge Barbie” (poem) in SWWIM (Supporting Women Writers in Miami) Every Day, April 25, 2018
"Reproduction Theory" and "Gem and Mineral" (poems) in Terrain.org: A Journal of the Built + Natural Environment, April 2018
"Sit-Upon" (poem) in Moon City Review, 2018
"Lunar" (poem) in Puerto del Sol, The Science Issue, Winter 2018
"Grief is a fiddlehead" and "And the Expanse of a Digital Coastline" (poems) in South Dakota Review 53 (3&4): pp. 121-122.
"Shotgun" (poem) in The Fem, November 2017
"Suburbia" (prose poem) in elsewhere (Issue 13)
"Auto-Translate" and "Possum" (poems) in The Collapsar, August 2017 Edition
"Fritillary," "Instructions for Hunger," "Kitchen" (poems) in Tinderbox Poetry Journal (Volume 4 Issue 3)
"Sinners" (essay) in Entropy (June 2017)
"Thumb" (poem) in New South (Issue 10.1)
"Jealousy" (prose poem) in Stirring: A Literary Collection (Volume 19, Edition 2)
"Tourism" (poem) in Bear Review (Volume 3 Issue 2)
"Cars and Highways," "Happy Accidents," "Instagram Suite," "Lies to Tell the Body," "Prizes of Mostly Air," "Vinegar & Honey" (poems) in Vending Machine Press
"Dear Distance," "Do Not Consume Raw" (poems) in The Boiler (Winter Issue XXII, January 2017)
"Your Eye Is A Red Dwarf Planet" (poem) in Glass: A Journal of Poetry (January 2017)
"On Poisonous Snakes in Puerto Rico" (poem) in The Adroit Journal (Issue 19, January 2017)
"Illustration As Momento Mori" (poem) in Sugared Water (Issue 5)
"Three days into your marriage" (poem) in Quarterly West (Issue 89)
"Fever [pain]" (poem) in Bone Bouquet (Issue 7.2, Fall 2016)
"Esteemed Art-Loving Reader" (poem) in Spiral Orb (Issue 11, January 2016)
"Housewife" (poem) in Rogue Agent (Issue 9, December 2015)
"21st Century Domestic" (poem) in Heron Tree (November 2015)
"Witchcraft and A Woman's Worth," "As They Are," and "Colorfast" (poems) in Menacing Hedge (Spring 2015)
"Merian's Brush," "To get a moth--," and "scale wing" (poems) in Sugar Mule (Issue 48)
"Maria at the Labadist Colony" and "The Only Letter She Sent to Her Husband While He Built the Wall" (poems) in IthacaLit (Autumn 2014)
More poems in burntdistrict, Mid-American Review, Isthmus, and Blue Earth Review.
"Oil City, PA" and "[interiority]" (poems) in Ocean State Review
"The Boy Is Now an Obituary" (essay) in MAYDAY Magazine
"How to Conquer" and "Spoil" (poems) in Southern Indiana Review
Review of Atomizer by Elizabeth A. I. Powell in Colorado Review
"Ivy in Every Parallel Universe" (poem) in Blackbird
"And Yet There Is Hope," a review of Dialogues with Rising Tides by Kelli Russell Agodon in EcoTheo Review
"Hurricane Season" (poem) in Sycamore Review
"[suburbs]" and "[audience]" (prose poems/micro memoirs) in Birdcoat Quarterly
"[dolls]" (prose poem/mico memoir) in Tinderbox Poetry Journal
"Genetic" and "Love in Anthropocene" (poems) in The Account: A Journal of Poetry, Prose, and Thought
"Extinction Theory" (poem) in Ruminate
"Pretty Lips," "The Body in Every Parallel Universe," "Mass Extinction Virtues," "[make believe]," "Armor" (poems) in The Fourth River
"Silence and Song," a review of Nightingale by Paisley Rekdal, in AGNI
"End Credits" (poem) in Poetry International
“[plant life]” (poem) in West Branch
"[warning: reenactment]" and "[scale]" (poems) in Alaska Quarterly Review
"Darwin's Theory of Natural Selection in Every Parallel Universe" and "Westward Expansion" (poems) in Cherry Tree
"The Body Is a Fragile Experiment" and Machine Hymn" (poems) in Gulf Coast Online Exclusives
"Papermaking" (flash fiction) in The Boiler
"Nocturne" (poem) in Pleiades (Summer 2018)
“Carnivore,” “Drafted into the Navy at the End of the War, the Grandfather Assists with Autopsies Conducted on the Victims of Hiroshima and Nagasaki,” “The Grandfather Stationed at the Air Force Base, North Africa” (prose poems) in Gold Wake Live, Issue 3
“Self Portrait as Mermaid Midge Barbie” (poem) in SWWIM (Supporting Women Writers in Miami) Every Day, April 25, 2018
"Reproduction Theory" and "Gem and Mineral" (poems) in Terrain.org: A Journal of the Built + Natural Environment, April 2018
"Sit-Upon" (poem) in Moon City Review, 2018
"Lunar" (poem) in Puerto del Sol, The Science Issue, Winter 2018
"Grief is a fiddlehead" and "And the Expanse of a Digital Coastline" (poems) in South Dakota Review 53 (3&4): pp. 121-122.
"Shotgun" (poem) in The Fem, November 2017
"Suburbia" (prose poem) in elsewhere (Issue 13)
"Auto-Translate" and "Possum" (poems) in The Collapsar, August 2017 Edition
"Fritillary," "Instructions for Hunger," "Kitchen" (poems) in Tinderbox Poetry Journal (Volume 4 Issue 3)
"Sinners" (essay) in Entropy (June 2017)
"Thumb" (poem) in New South (Issue 10.1)
"Jealousy" (prose poem) in Stirring: A Literary Collection (Volume 19, Edition 2)
"Tourism" (poem) in Bear Review (Volume 3 Issue 2)
"Cars and Highways," "Happy Accidents," "Instagram Suite," "Lies to Tell the Body," "Prizes of Mostly Air," "Vinegar & Honey" (poems) in Vending Machine Press
"Dear Distance," "Do Not Consume Raw" (poems) in The Boiler (Winter Issue XXII, January 2017)
"Your Eye Is A Red Dwarf Planet" (poem) in Glass: A Journal of Poetry (January 2017)
"On Poisonous Snakes in Puerto Rico" (poem) in The Adroit Journal (Issue 19, January 2017)
"Illustration As Momento Mori" (poem) in Sugared Water (Issue 5)
"Three days into your marriage" (poem) in Quarterly West (Issue 89)
"Fever [pain]" (poem) in Bone Bouquet (Issue 7.2, Fall 2016)
"Esteemed Art-Loving Reader" (poem) in Spiral Orb (Issue 11, January 2016)
"Housewife" (poem) in Rogue Agent (Issue 9, December 2015)
"21st Century Domestic" (poem) in Heron Tree (November 2015)
"Witchcraft and A Woman's Worth," "As They Are," and "Colorfast" (poems) in Menacing Hedge (Spring 2015)
"Merian's Brush," "To get a moth--," and "scale wing" (poems) in Sugar Mule (Issue 48)
"Maria at the Labadist Colony" and "The Only Letter She Sent to Her Husband While He Built the Wall" (poems) in IthacaLit (Autumn 2014)
More poems in burntdistrict, Mid-American Review, Isthmus, and Blue Earth Review.
Scholarly Chapters & Articles
"From Assembly Lines to Artisans: Unique Beings in the First-Year Writing Classroom." A Socially Just Classroom: Trandisiciplinary Approaches to Teaching Writing Across the Humanities, Eds. Kristin Coffey and Vuslat D. Katsanis, Vernon Press (2022)
"In the Group Home: Disenfranchised Youth and the Creative Writing Workshop as Intervention" Journal of Creative Writing Studies 3.1 (2018)
Jingrong Xie, James D. Basham, and Alyse Bensel. "Integrating Research-Based Practices and Mobile Technology to Support Students with Executive Functioning Challenges in Post-Secondary STEM" International Journal of Mobile Learning and Organisation (2019)
"In the Group Home: Disenfranchised Youth and the Creative Writing Workshop as Intervention" Journal of Creative Writing Studies 3.1 (2018)
Jingrong Xie, James D. Basham, and Alyse Bensel. "Integrating Research-Based Practices and Mobile Technology to Support Students with Executive Functioning Challenges in Post-Secondary STEM" International Journal of Mobile Learning and Organisation (2019)