Publication History

Highlights and Almost Highlights

• Published in United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany, Belgium, Nigeria, Singapore, India, Australia, Hawaii, and Canada

• Runner up, Blossom Contest 2026

• 2 Pushcart Prize Nominations

• 2 Best of the Net Nominations

• He’s a Color Until He’s Not. Moon Tide Press, 2024.

• Leave with More Than You Came with. Arroyo Seco Press, 2018.

• Hawaiians in Los Angeles. Arcadia Publishing, 2012.

• Host and Coordinator, monthly visiting writer workshop and reading.

2025-Present

• “My Mouth is Runit Island.” table//FEAST Blossom Contest Runner up (Forthcoming)

• “it’s all noumena.” Full House, Issue 1, 2026.

• “admire the hustle.” Underbelly Press, Issue 6, 2026.

• “Vasayan: Once Pirates, Now Nurses.” Eunoia Review, February 2026.

• “The Encroaching Unknown.” Hobo Camp Review. Issue 50, Winter 2026.

• “Where NASA Imagines Alien Worlds.” Mascara Literary Review, October 2025.

• “Empty Wine Glass and a Clump of Hair in an Oakland Gutter,” “World Without Elders,” “To Build on the Old One,” and Craft Essay.Rawhead: a Journal of Art and Literature, Issue 1, Fall 2025.

• “Our First and Last Language is the Body.” Club Rambutan, Fall/Winter 2025.

• “Our Songs Come from the Past.” Tiger Leaping Review, Issue 6, 2025.

• “We Pray on Our Knees to Make Our Desperation More Literal.” Solid Food Press, January 2025.

• “One Day, Just One, It Happened.” Masque and Spectacle, September 2025.

• “Last Day.” Eckleburg, (Lost).

• “Looking for Something Special” and “A Good Thing.” Bond Street Review, Summer 2025.

• “Entering Every Room and Shouting ‘Where am I at?’” The B’K Magazine, Vol. 16, Issue 3, 2025.

• “Dreaded Ones.” Arlington Literary Journal, Issue 213, September 2025.

• “Aloha Airlines Ticket.” Literary Underground, April 2025

• “Blood Quantum Is Damages Due and Damages Paid,” “Beer, Blonde Highlights, and Roasted Pig,” and “The Buffet Boy Creates a Religion.”Olit, Issue 6, Summer 2025.

• “10,000 Hours of Practice Makes You a Master” and “When I Stopped Being a Threat to Goods.” ¡PA’LANTE!, Issue 6, Spring 2025

• “Master of the Death Match.” Exist Otherwise. January 2025.

• “I Wanted to Be More,” “The Jesus Competition,” and Love Like Poetry.” [Alternate Route], Issue 15, Fall 2024.