TRENDGENDER

books

• INVENTION OF THE MOUTH [Dream Pop Press, 2019 | First Chapbook Series]
• BAITED MEMORY [Ghost City Press, 2019 | Summer Micro-Chap Series]
• THE NEW JERSEY DEVIL WASHES THE BLOOD OFF [L'Éphémère Review, 2018 | Overture to Memory Micro-Chap Series]
• BLOODMUCK [The Atlas Review, 2018 | TAR Chapbook Series]

SELECTED WORK

• In Which My Chest Is Touched For The First Time After I Get Top Surgery [Alien Mouth]
• Poets in Pajamas Episode #75 // April 2020
• IN WHICH I TRY TO FIRE MY BODY, BUT BEFORE I CAN, MY BODY PUTS IN ITS TWO WEEKS [Monstering Mag]
• Two Poems: DIFFERENT MASSACRES | A BRIEF PSYCHOLOGICAL HISTORY OF THE NEW JERSEY DEVIL [Maps for Teeth]
• Two Poems: bird-thing |THE ALTERNATE UNIVERSE WHERE MY MOTHER DOES NOT TELL ME THAT I NEED TO LOSE WEIGHT WHEN I COME HOME FROM COLLEGE IS THE SAME UNIVERSE WHERE WE BOTH HAVE BEARDS [Drunk In A Midnight Choir]
• Two Poems: sometimes my girlfriend sleeps at her boyfriend’s house and dreams of me instead | i guess if it needs a name i’ll call it [Honey and Lime]
• - NEW JERSEY DEVIL VIGNETTES I-V [Monstering Mag]
• Three Poems: THE SUMMER POETS ON THE INTERNET THINK THEY INVENTED THE WORD "YEARNING" | Hermione Granger Erases Her Parents' Memories | when we left the courthouse / you pulled a knife out [BTTR PRSS]
• Three Poems: J. EDGARDir. Clint Eastwood, 2011) | THE LIGHT, RIGHT BEFORE (IT GOES OUT) | The New Jersey Devil Stops Being A Pacifist After Watching Cops Beat Its Friends Into The Pavement [Burning House Press]
• I, TOO [ANMLY]
• IN WHICH THE AUTHOR ATTEMPTS TO SMUGGLE A SWITCHBLADE ONTO A PLANE [Tinderbox Poetry Journal]
• PARALLEL INVENTIONS [BOAAT]
• Pedigree of Alcoholism in The Author’s Family [Tinderbox Poetry Journal]
• ON BEING READ MY MIRANDA RIGHTS IN MY OWN HALLWAY [Vagabond City Lit]
• SOMEWHERE, A POET USES JAIL AS A METAPHOR [Paintbucket]
• Two Poems: PHOTOGRAPHS OF LAST YEAR LOOK LIKE A CRIME SCENE | for Spit [Petrichor Mag]
• MY PARTNER, WHO IS LEARNING HOW TO TEND A GUNSHOT WOUND [Tinderbox Poetry Journal]
• Two Poems: two years after the protest | NICOMEDES SPEAKS TO THE SENATE FLOOR JULIUS CAESAR LAY DEAD ON [L'Éphémère Review]
• After I Get Top Surgery, J. Robert Oppenheimer Watches Me Make Out With My Partner [Alternating Current Press]
• CARRIE BUCK AND I COMPARE SURGERY SCARS [The Penn Review]
• VIRGINIA WOOLF WALKS INTO MY APARTMENT [The Rising Phoenix Review]
• IN WHICH KRIS JENNER OFFERS ME COCAINE TO DIFFUSE THE SITUATION [Crab Fat Magazine]
• AFTER MY CLASS DEBATES WHETHER THE SNAKE IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN IS MALE OR FEMALE [The Blueshift Journal]
• TEN THINGS YOU DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT BEING DECAPITATED [Boink Zine]
• Two Poems: WAIL/WILD | Origin Story In Ten Parts [Yes Poetry]
• I Am Not A Gun [Juked]
• Two Poems: On Prayer | AT THE DUPLICATING CENTER [Cosmonauts Avenue]
• LUST-LETTER TO ONE OF THE REGULARS [Lunch Ticket]
• SOMETIMES THERE IS A BOY WHO WANTS TO LOVE THE GIRL BACK INTO ME [Watershed Review]
• IN BOSTON THE DRUNKGIRL FLIRTS WITH ME AND I DO NOT FLIRT BACK JUST TO BORROW HER MOUTH [Frontier Poetry]
• WE ALL FALL IN LOVE WITH OUR BEST FRIENDS & THEN WE DIE LIKE THAT [Crooked Arrow Press]
• for b. [Drunk Monkeys]
• SITCOM SPLIT-SCENE OF BLOC-PREP [audio]
• Epigenesis: A Lineage in Two Voices [Sundog Lit]

AWS + NOMS

• Best of the Net Nomination c/o Honey & Lime Lit [2020]
• Pushcart Prize Nomination c/o L'Ephemere Review [2019]
• Best of the Net Nomination c/o L'Ephemere Review [2019]
• Pushcart Prize Nomination c/o Dream Pop Press [2019]
• Best of the Net Nomination c/o Vagabond City Lit [2019]
• Finalist: Best of the Net 2018 [The Mirror In My University’s Weight Room Speaks To Me]
• Pushcart Prize Nomination c/o Alternating Current Press [2018]
• Best of the Net Nomination c/o Sundog Lit [Fall 2018]
• Best of the Net Nomination c/o Tinderbox Journal [Fall 2018]
• Winner: Bettering American Poetry 2017 [Bugged Car, Slow Burn; I, Too]
• Pushcart Prize Nomination c/o Dream Pop Press [Fall 2017]
• Best of the Net Nomination c/o Nostrovia! Press [Fall 2017]
• Best of the Net Nomination c/o c/o (b)OINK zine [Summer 2017]
• Best of the Net Nomination c/o Black Napkin Press [Summer 2017]
• Bettering American Poetry Prize Nomination c/o Crab Fat Magazine [March 2017]
• Bettering American Poetry Prize Nomination c/o Glass Poetry Press [March 2017]
• Pushcart Prize Nomination c/o Rising Phoenix Press [Fall 2016]
• Pushcart Prize Nomination c/o Crab Fat Magazine [Fall 2016]
• Best of the Net Nomination c/o Voicemail Poems [Fall 2016]
• Finalist @ Capturing Fire, Washington, D.C. [June 2016]
• Grand Slam Champion @ Loser Slam, Red Bank, NJ [May 2016]
• Finalist: Philadelphia Fuze Poetry Slam 2015-2016 season
• 30 Second Slam Champ @ Capturing Fire [June 2015]
• Grand Slam Champion @ Rowan University, NJ [December 2014]