poet | co-founding editor @FirstMatterPress | designer + publishing consultant for small presses, journals, literary organizations, universities + independent authors
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i love to bring my experience to projects that center liberation, under-represented voices, poetic craft, children’s literacy + eco-consciousness
recently…
2025 First Matter Press cohort release: Annemarie Eayrs, nawa angel a.h., Violeta Garza & Claudia Saleeby Savage
lead editor | contributing editor | publication designer | production consultant
2024 First Matter Press cohort release: “greenhouse” and “Suspended In My Insecticide Jar”
lead editor | contributing editor | publication designer | production consultant
“We Are Dreaming of Freedom”: Picturebook + Teaching Guide
publication designer | digital publishing consultant
“LA Miscellany”: A Journal of Poetry, Fiction and Art
publication designer | digital publishing consultant
Lorraine Anderson’s “Slow Cook Solar” wins Silver Nautilus Book Award
publication designer | production consultant
Belinda Hernández Arriaga’s “Amor y Monstruos en la Vida de Sofía” Receives International Latino Book Awards Bronze Medal
publication designer | production consultant
“Our Favorite People in the Room”: Literary/Art Anthology
publication designer | production consultant | co-editor
Rae Diamond’s “floating bones”
publication designer | production consultant | contributing editor
charity e. yoro’s “ten-cent flower & other territories”
publication designer | production consultant | contributing editor
Josie Méndez-Negrete’s “Rooted in Clay: Verónica Castillo y su arte”
publication designer | production consultant | contributing editor
“We Become a New Story”: an anthology from 48 writers healing from cancer
co-editor | publication designer | production consultant
2022 First Matter Press cohort release: ahuva s. zaslavsky, Riley Danvers, Sonya Wohletz, Hailey Spencer & Xylophone Mykland
lead editor | contributing editor | publication designer | production consultant
Mona Lewis’s “Nature’s Paintbox: Colors from the Natural World for the Young Artist (and Those Who Are Young at Heart)”
publication designer | production consultant