
The Work
This is a selection of my work, not a comprehensive database. I hope you find something to enjoy!
Poetry
“The Night I Learn that Quantum Mechanics Says that in Trying to Observe Something You Alter It,” forthcoming in Grist
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“In a parallel universe I borrow grief from my daughter, who has it to spare” in Jet Fuel
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“20 years ago I wished on a shooting star that turned out to be dead bodies,” in SoFloPoJo
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“I tell Mary Magdalene an emotionally unavailable 33 year old man can’t save her but I can,” in Palette Poetry
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“when I think about us, I think about southern summers,” SWWIM
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“My mom says the year I was born you could buy one of everything from the taco bell menu for $15” in Taco Bell Quarterly.
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"I'm glad my grandma died before she could see me get fat," Spring 2024 contest runner up in Phoebe Literature
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“The friends I had at nineteen are all blocked on Facebook now but” in Milk Press
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“saleslady says stop romanticizing the struggle” in Electric Literature’s The Commute
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“When I tell my therapist I put the ‘bi’ in bipolar she asks to see me twice a week” in Electric Literature The Commuter
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"My fiance says it’s like all women have cultural memory of when they were worms” inHayden’s Ferry Review Issue 73
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“My therapist says it’s trauma, I say it’s a party trick” in Hayden’s Ferry Review Issue 73
Prose
"Water is Thicker than Blood" in Trace Fossils
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"The Rule of Threes" forthcoming in Chatterbox
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Interviews & Reviews
“A Review of What Good is Heaven by Raye Hendrix” in The Rumpus
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“KNOCKING DOWN GATES THAT WERE NEVER BUILT FOR PEOPLE LIKE US”: A CONVERSATION WITH SG HUERTA BY BLEAH PATTERSON” in Split Lip Magazine
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“Ling Ma’s Bliss Montage: A Book Review” The Texas Review online
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“Ottessa Moshfegh’s Lapvona is absolutely not set in a post-Trump era, and that’s the point: A Book Review” The Texas Review online
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“Sequoia Nagamatsu Interview by Bleah Patterson and Sequoia Nagamatsu" The Texas Review online
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Scholarly/ACa-demic
“GAY!: an exploration of queer joy in contemporary poetry” in Across the Margins
“Sad Girl vs Mad Girl in Contemporary Poetry” in Write or Die Magazine

