and since I love writing so much, I became a publisher.​

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I was once an angsty teenager writing poetry to my middle school crushes. Then I authored my first memoir Trauma Queen at 19, wrote a collection of poetry titled Heal Your Love that landed me as a Lambda Literary Finalist, and now I am publishing my first collection of short fiction titled The Hex through Pomegranate Books. In between I published essays and short stories in various online publications and print anthologies including The Resilience Anthology, Nerve Endings: The New Trans Erotic, and the 2nd edition of Colonize This! I wrote a 10-minute musical titled DEVOTED for Theater Battery in 2022, and I'm also currently a co-writer and co-director of Transmutation: A Ceremony with Mirror Memoirs.

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(Did I mention how much I love writing?)

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In 2012, I was an editor with biyuti publishing, a trans woman of color publishing press, and from 2018 - 2020 I was the Co-Director of Heartspark Press where we published 99% Chance of Magic, the first fully illustrated chapbook by trans people for trans children.

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I founded Pomegranate Books to build a home for trans & queer writers of color to unleash their humor, creativity and power onto the page through culturally competent writing development programs and publishing opportunities. 

 

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