My writing practice grows from my training in body-based performance. The poetic force of my vision becomes language by first being channeled through my sensory body.
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Poetry
I have written three poems that I consider worth their salt.
1. Sugar Bones (2022)
Written with, and for, my disabled ancestor.2. Into That Ruptured Place(2023)
On the colonial imagination, and unwinding the trauma in the mythic garden of the origin of the Western world.This poem has been translated into two Indigenous languages, Lenape and Kichwa/Quechua, as well as Spanish.
It has been published in:
The Soil Keepers: Land.Place.Belonging, Vol. 2 by Nance Klehm
Killing the Buddha, Online Literary Magazine
grouphug magazine, Volume 5
3.Meeting Mosab Abu Toha (2024)
On meeting Palestinian poet, Mosab Abu Toha. -

Poetic Essays
My preferred form of writing is creative non-fiction. Specifically, first-person essays. This allows me to write with poetic freedom while still being contained in a narrative-driven form.
Animate Earth: The poetic knowledges of ancient forests and disabled communities (Orion Magazine, 2021)
Trauma in the Garden (unpublished, 2020)
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Scholarship
My artistic practice is supported by rigorous scholarship on colonialism, disability studies, the philosophy of science, and the medical humanities. My scholarship has been published in MIT Press, Routledge, Society for Disability Studies, Intellect, and more.
I love pushing the form that scholarship can take, and have published three articles that are poetic conversations with collaborators that prioritize dialogue, relationship and non-analytical/somatic knowledge. They are in collaboration with:
a non-verbal disabled poet
a leading neuroscientist
a disabled, Indigenous poet
SOLO AUTHOR:
Bodies speaking: Embodiment, illness, and the poetic materiality of puppetry/object practice(2020
Intellect/Journal of Applied Arts and Health, special issue on puppetry, disability and health
RELATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP:
Porous embodiment and poetic knowledge: an emergent dialogue between a puppetry artist and neuroscientist (2025)
MIT Press/LeonardoPrimitive way country come look inside(2024)
MIT Press/LeonardoA prescription for consent(2022)
Disability Studies Quarterly; special issue on Indigeneity and Disability
FIRST AUTHOR:
Puppetry: Embodiment, Enchantment, Memory, History (2020)
Routledge Companion to Health Humanities
CO-AUTHOR:
Performing Public Health(2025)
Taylor & Francis Companion to Performance and ScienceDisability Rights as a Necessary Framework for Crisis Standards of Care and the Future of Health Care(2020)
The Hastings Center Report