ESSAYS

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"[S]mothering," FOLIO Literary Journal (Volume 40), 2025

"Ancestry," Jericho Wawa (Print, Issue 5), 2025

"As If," redrosethorns journal, 2025

"Elders," Jericho Wawa (Print, Issue 6), 2025

“Ancestry,” Progenitor Art & Literary Journal (Print, Volume 55), 2024
“Of Grass and Roots,” Symposeum Magazine (Print, Issue 5), 2024
"The Genre of Virginity: A Hagiography", Banshee Literary Journal (Issue 4, Print), 2024

 

POEMS

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"Before I Read About My Country in a History Book," The Cornstock Review (Print, Volume 39), 2025

"Parsley and Pepper," Blink Ink Journal (Print, Yale University), 2025
"Mitosis," ANTAE (Print), 2025

"Father Forgive Me For I Have Seen," The Stinging Fly (Print), 2025

"An Entryway or an Exit," Nova Literary-Arts Exhibition (Student Union Art Gallery), 2025

"Qualia," "Geology," and "Archeology," Creation & Preservation, Yale Divinity School, 2025

"My Grandfather's Memory,"Stonecoast Review (Print, Issue 23), 2025

"Salt in the Blood" and "Gara de Nord," The Shore (Issue 26), 2025

"Growing Up in Străinătate," Hindsight: Creative Nonfiction Journal (Print), 2025

"How to Cut a Root," Rogue Agent (Issue 124), 2025

 "Entrainment" and "Before the World Arrives When Light Learns the Floorplan," October Hill Magazine, 2025

"Ordinary Girl Has a Midday Vision," The Modern Artist, 2025

"Before the World Arrives When Light Learns the Floorplan" and "When My Father Built a Fence, He Said It Would Keep the

          Bears Out, But I Knew it Wouldn't," Pictura Journal, 2025

"Homeless" and "In The Beginning, The Atoms," The Pointed Circle, 2025

 “Things the Moon Owns” and “How to Speak Cloud,” Tiny Wren Lit, 2025

"Concrete Cradle," dadakuku, 2025

"Definitions," Prosetrics, 2025

"Procreation," "Prompt for an AI Image Generator," and "Consummation," The Mad River, 2025

 "Coming of Age," Juste Literary Journal, 2025

“THE BODY AS A WEATHER SYSTEM,” Virdine Literary, 2025

"What My Daughter Thinks Is Silence Is Actually a Century of Women Enduring" and "Diapause," The Insurgence, 2025

"Entrainment," Smoke (Issue 75), 2025

"Clay," "First Kiss," "Under Construction," and "Notes on Dressing for a Dance That Never Starts," Ascendency, 2025 

"I Spent My Childhood in the Space Behind Brambles," On Gaia Literary Magazine, 2025

"Metropolis," "Body," and "And The Day After That," underscore_magazine, 2025

"Before There Were Settlers," Wayfarer Art and Literary Journal, 2025

"Minor Repairs," Ink In Thirds Magazine, 2025

"Delicacy," Exist Otherwise, 2025

"Pensando en la Inmortalidad del Cangrejo (Thinking About the Immortality of the Crab)," Abundance Literary Magazine, 2025

Migration: Special Feature Folio (Eight Poems), Black Stone/White Stone Zine, 2024

“Moldova” and “An Entryway or an Exit,” Josephine Quarterly, 2024

"Postcard From Home" and "Emerging Adulthood”, Mantis: A Journal of Poetry, Criticism, and Translation (Print,

          Stanford University), 2024

"Learning to Say My Mother's Name”, Meniscus Literary Journal (Print, Vol 12 Issue 1), 2024 
"I Wake up in Istanbul" and "A Landscape, Fading”, Panorama: The Journal of Travel, Place, and Nature (Print, Issue 11), 2024
"A Synonym for Estrangement", Susurrus: A Literary Arts Magazine, 2024

"Drought," Passengers Journal (Volume 5, Issue 4, Print), 2024
"Growing Up in Străinătate (A Foreign Land)", Sheepshead Review: Journal of Art and Literature (Print, Vol. 6 No. 2), 2024
"It's A Girl", Purely Liminal Magazine (Issue 4, Print), 2024.

"Learning to Say My Mother's Name”, Pensive: A Global Journal of Spirituality and the Arts (Print, Issue 8), 2024
“I Become a Migrant”, The B'K: A Quarterly Art And Lit Magazine (Print), 2024
“Growing Up In Străinătate", About Place Journal (Vol. VIII, Issue I), 2024
“[Caption for a Photo of a Mother and Daughter in the Slums of Romania]", Tint Journal, 2024 
"It's a Girl", Beacon Radiant (Anthology, Print), 2024

"Unnamed" and "Helium", Sontag Mag: A Journal of Craft and Poetry, 2024

"Leftovers," "Moldova," and "To The 73 Year Old Woman Who Waits With Me For Bus #18", Transat' Revue, 2024
“Emerging Adulthood”, Gyroscope Review (Print, Issue 24), 2024

"On the Anniversary of the Day She Went Missing,” Beaver Magazine, 2024
"It Is June" and "Postcards From Home", Pearl Press: Golden Hour Issue (Print), 2024

"Why, When Asked How Old I Am, I Take Too Long To Answer", The Creekside Magazine, 2024
"I Become a Migrant", Deal Jam Literary Magazine, 2024
“Texts I Don't Send From Gate A37”, Paraselene Magazine, 2024

"In Modernity You Must Connect Your Fridge To Wifi" and 'There Isn't Another Happy Birthday," Frogmore Papers, 2024
“Self, or Love is a Thing That Takes On Form”, Noor: A Literary and Art Magazine, 2024
"23", Minerva Press, 2024

"Before There Were Settlers," Talon Review (Vol. 3, Issue 3), 2024

"Do Not Follow The Sun When It Sets," "Geography," and "The Mother Serves Grah To An Empty Chair", The Shallow Tales

            Review (Issue 20), 2024

“​​I Tell God I Want To Write a Poem Entitled Rubato That Ends With a Dying Sound,” 7th-Circle Pyrite, 2024
“Consummation”, Blue Unicorn (Print), 2024

“An Entryway or an Exit,” Midway Journal, 2024

بعض الأيام عسل و بعض الأيام بصل (Some Days Honey, Some Days Onions)", Fiery Scribe Review, 2024

"Cavoli Riscaldati (Reheated Cabbage)" and "In The Beginning, The Atoms", The Turning Leaf Journal, 2024

"Growing Pain", Thin Veil Press, 2024

"Helium," Wildscape Literary Journal, 2024

"Remedy" and "I Become A Migrant", We Were Seeds Anthology (Print), Querencia Press (2024)
"Varză", The Spectacle (Issue 14), 2024

"Pensando en la Inmortalidad del Cangrejo (Thinking About the Immortality of the Crab)" and "Calendar", The Broken Teacup 
"Cottagecore", Midwestern Heat Magazine, 2024

"Out of Order," Asylum Magazine (Print), 2024

"A Conversation with God Smoking Weed on the Couch" and "I Look Up At Mary," Troublemaker Firestarter

          Literary Magazine, 2024

"Past Lives," Fifty Word Stories, 2025

"Before There Were Settlers," Belt Magazine, 2024

"Ordinary Girl Has a Midday Vision," Midnight Fawn Review, 2024

​"On the Anniversary of the Day She Went Missing,” "Home Alone,” and "Before There Were Settlers”, Eunoia Review, 2024

“There Isn’t Another Happy Birthday,” Wildsound Writing Festival, 2024
"The Day We First Used The Word ‘Annulment’" and "A Definition of Hope”, Spotlong Review, 2023
“Water From Nowhere”, Symposeum Magazine (Print, Issue 4), 2023
"The Manic Stage" and "A Still Life”, Pile Press (Print, Issue 6), 2023 
"Paper Cut”, Molecule: A Tiny Lit Magazine (Print, Issue 10), 2023

"God Speaks To Me From Hollow Trees", Bearings Online, 2023

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AWARDS

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Panorama Prize (Shortlisted), 2024

University of Oxford's Centre for the Creative Brain Art Competition (First Place), 2024

Pushcart Prize Nominations (Beacon Radiant Anthology, Noor Literary Magazine), 2024
Oxford-BNU Creative Writing Award Finalist (Shortlisted), 2021
University of Oxford Jesus College Poetry Competition (First and Third Place), 2021
$10,000 +U Poetry Competition Winner (First Place)