Resume

Published Books
The G!d Wrestlers, Rest, August 2022
Necessity's Daughter, May 2021
The G!d Wrestlers, Unlikely Victories: A Handbook for the Good Fight, 2017
The G!d Wrestlers, The Book of Solace, July 2016
​Choose the Sword Press, And Who By Nobody's Son, January 2016
The G!d Wrestlers, The Social Justice Warrior's Guide to the High Holy Days, Sept. 2015

Published Short Stories
Off the Map, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2023

Published Poems
- Paper Nautilus, December 2015 (Forsythia)
- Rust and Moth, Summer 2015 (How To Begin The Awful Day)
 - Blood and Thunder, Sept 2012 (This Is How I Want to Die)
- Damselfly, April 2012 (Things To Know About Being a Homeless Youth Counselor)
 - Borderline, March 2012 (It Gets Better - Raizl/Rachel)
 - Innisfree 14, March, 2012 (Ritual, Bus Tunnel, Vashti)
 - OVS Magazine, January 2012 (Sh'ma/Retelling, and Rasia, Oberlangen, 1944)
 - Because I Said So: Poems on the Happiness and Crappiness of Parenting, Aortic Books, October 2011 
 - Bilerico Project, April 2011, October 2011 (Advice to a young queer on National Coming Out Day)
 - The Smoking Poet, Fall 2010 (Diner)
 - Jew-ish.com, June 2010 (Short story: Onion Duty)
 - Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation, Seal Press, August 2010 (Faygeleh)
 - Learn Then Burn, Write Bloody Press, May 2010 (Dancing in the Rain with Annie)
 - The Flea, March 2010 (The Language of Daughters)
 - Naugatuck River Review, Winter 2010 contest issue (Shifra)
 - Breadcrumb Scabs, April 2010 (Intake Interview)
 - Foundling Review, October 2009 (Memo to a New Lover)
 - Weave, April 2009 (When Boughs Break)
 - Zaghareet, Nov./Dec. 2008 (For the Bellydancers)
 - Naugatuck River Review, Nov. 2008 (Dressing Up)
 - CICADA Magazine, Sept./Oct. 2008 (Di Yunge)
 - My Drifting Ship: Poems by and for Shannon Leigh (Untitled)
 - Off the Coast Aug. 2008 (Mythmaking)
 - Estrology: An Anthology, Wordsmith Press, Mar. 2008 (The Memory of Rising)
 - CICADA Magazine, Nov./Dec. 2007 (The Babysitter)

Awards
Best of Blood and Thunder Award (2012)
Eleanor Cederstrom Prize for Poetry, Smith College (2005, 2008) 
National Council of Teachers of English Award (2004)

Contests
Finalist, Naugatuck River Review Narrative Poetry Contest (Nov. 2009)

Slam
 - Finals Stage Host, Women of the World Poetry Slam, March 2012
 - Winner, Seattle Poetry Slam, May 2009 
 - Women of the World Poetry Slam competitor, 2008, 2009, 2010
 - Winner, Grandeur Events Slam, March 2009
 - iWPS Competitor, 2008, 2009

Self-Published Chapbooks
My Kitchen, A Window (January 2011) Limited Edition
Comrades Beneath the Stars(December 2010) Limited Edition
See You In The AM (June 2009)
Stories of Apples and Bellies (June 2008 / New Edition 2009)
The Importance of Dialogue (July 2007)

Features

Tenafly Library (Tenafly, NJ 4/28/11)
Outpost Lounge (Brooklyn, NY) 4/26/11)
Congregation Beit Simchat Torah, (New York, NY 4/24/11)
Northern Valley Regional High School Demarest, (Demarest, NJ April 4/8/11)
Haworth Library (Haworth, NJ 4/7/11)
 Smith College (Northampton, MA 4/5/11)
Dirty Gerund (Worcester, MA 4/4/11)
Atomic Bean Cafe, (Cambridge MA, 3/29/11)
Poets' Asylum (Worcester, MA 3/27/11)
Poetry Aloud and Alive (Philadelphia 3/25/11)
Midrash & Poetry Reading, Discussion & Potluck (West Philadelphia 3/23/11)
Steel City Slam (Pittsburgh, PA 3/15/11)
Seattle Poetry Slam (Seattle, WA, 2/1/11)
Peach (St. Paul, MN, 3/19/2010)
In One Ear Open Mic (Chicago, IL, 3/17/10)
Safe Smiles Open Mic (Chicago, IL, 3/16/10)
Mental Graffiti Slam (Chicago, IL 3/15/10)
Green Mill [spotlight] (Chicago, IL 3/14/10)
Zippy's (Seattle, WA, Nov. 12, 2009)
Zippy's (Seattle, WA, July 2, 2009)
Princeton University (Princeton, NJ, Dec. 3, 2008)
Haworth Public Library (Haworth, NJ, Dec. 1, 2008)
Marlboro College (Marlboro, VT, Nov. 11, 2008)
Congregation B'nai Israel (Emerson, NJ, Oct. 24, 2008)
Cool Beans Cafe Open Mic (Oradell, NJ Sept. 28, 2008)
Baxter's Cafe Open Mic (Salt Lake City, UT, Sept. 6, 2008)
Addicted Cafe Open Mic (Salt Lake City, UT, Sept. 4, 2008)
Mestizo Open Mic (Salt Lake City, UT, Sept. 3, 2008)
Ocotillo Poetry Slam (Tucson, AZ, Aug. 30, 2008)
Wired and Unplugged Open Mic (Snohomish, WA, Aug. 21, 2008)
SLAMMN Open Mic and Slam (Minneapolis, MN, Aug. 12, 2008)
Hellbound Tricycle Open Mic (Florence, MA, Jun. 19, 2008)
Community Voices Open Mic (Westfield, MA, Nov. 2007)

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