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How Will I Keep You Safe?
This is a central question in my writing and in my life. I return to it over and over, the way I return to Ohio at Christmas, or to my favorite cashmere sweater every time the weather turns grey.
How do we find safety in ourselves again after loss, trauma, or long stretches of loneliness?
I explore this question in my writing and tell stories about love, grief, and self-devotion.
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Published Work
ALL WE HAVE LEFT, in Quarter After Eight (2022),
“The light is different in Ohio, I don’t know if you know that, but it is.”
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AN ODE TO YOUR REJECTION, in What Rough Beast (2020)
“Of course, now I am tempted again to reach a hand out to you,
To cut though the chaos, the fear,
And orchestrate one more misguided attempt to hear the words,
“It will be ok.”
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BEADS THAT SPEAK, in Krannert Art Museum Collection (2017)
“Because the relationship between generations of women is so deeply significant to the process of making these garments, ideas of what it means to be a woman in Ndebele culture, and who a person is in the social network of their community are literally and figuratively woven into the designs of these garments.”