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Poet and Memoirist

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Author Statement

I am a writer from rural Alabama whose work explores family, belonging, queerness, grief, memory, and the complicated inheritance of the South. Across poetry and memoir, I write about longing, survival, silence, and what it means to love places and people that have not always known how or been able to love you back.

My writing is rooted in the landscapes that raised me and in the stories families keep, bury, revise, and pass down. I am interested in the tension between love and harm, belonging and exile, tradition and becoming.

Through lyric prose and poetry, I write toward truth, memory, and the self I was not always free to be. I believe language can help us reckon with the unbearable and, in doing so, help us move beyond just survival into fuller, more authentic lives.

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