
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
“In a parallel universe I borrow grief from my daughter, who has it to spare” in Jet Fuel
“20 years ago I wished on a shooting star that turned out to be dead bodies,” in SoFloPoJo
“I tell Mary Magdalene an emotionally unavailable 33 year old man can’t save her but I can,” in Palette Poetry
“when I think about us, I think about southern summers,” SWWIM
“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.
"I'm glad my grandma died before she could see me get fat," Spring 2024 contest runner up in Phoebe Literature
“The friends I had at nineteen are all blocked on Facebook now but” in Milk Press
“saleslady says stop romanticizing the struggle” in Electric Literature’s The Commute
“When I tell my therapist I put the ‘bi’ in bipolar she asks to see me twice a week” in Electric Literature The Commuter
"My fiance says it’s like all women have cultural memory of when they were worms” inHayden’s Ferry Review Issue 73
“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
"The Rule of Threes" forthcoming in Chatterbox
Interviews & Reviews
“A Review of What Good is Heaven by Raye Hendrix” in The Rumpus
“KNOCKING DOWN GATES THAT WERE NEVER BUILT FOR PEOPLE LIKE US”: A CONVERSATION WITH SG HUERTA BY BLEAH PATTERSON” in Split Lip Magazine
“Ling Ma’s Bliss Montage: A Book Review” The Texas Review online
“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
“Sequoia Nagamatsu Interview by Bleah Patterson and Sequoia Nagamatsu" The Texas Review online
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

