PUBLICATIONS, TEACHING, CONFERENCES
2026
Publications:
Venter Viperae, manuscript co-authored with Maeg Keane, Revelore Press.
“The Ghost(s) of St. Nicholas,” Shrieks in Cups of Gold, Weirdpunk Books.
“Wings Burst Out Mah Back: The Birthday Party’s “Mutiny in Heaven” and Lucifer’s Exile from Heaven,” Lyrics as Literature: Scholarly Perspectives on Song Lyric Craft, SCSU.
“The Road to 1978 by the Young Charlatans,” The Brooklyn Rail, May 2026 Issue.
Conferences:
“The Vampire’s Wife’s Husband: Nick Cave and Performing the Vampire”, Popular Culture & American Culture Association, Vampire Studies.
“The Sublimity of the Grotesque in Nick Cave’s Love Songs”, North Eastern Modern Languages Association, Space, Sound, & Identity.
“GOTHBODYPOLITIC: The Industrial Posthuman in Subcultural Marginalia”, International Gothic Association, Hull, UK.
“Ressurrecting Lost Futures: Hauntology for Witches”, Salem Witchcraft & Folklore Festival.
Teaching:
“From Her to Eternity: An Introduction to the Gothic Woman in Nick Cave’s Lyrics”, Romancing the Gothic Talk Series.
THE RED FLESH WORKSHOPS, a year-long workshop series taught by me for a select group of my mentees.
“Writer’s Week at The Writing Institute”, Lead Instructor.
“The Aesthetics of Offal”, Acid Horizon Research Commons.
Conferences/Workshops/Residencies:
DISQUIET INTERNATIONAL, creative nonfiction track.
McCormack Writing Center (formerly Tin House) Oregon Summer Workshop.
2025
Publications:
“Where the Monsters Live: Clive Barker’s Mutantopia”, Strange Horizons Magazine.
“Growing Pains; The Light”, Bloodletter Magazine.
“It Always Finds You In The End”, Neither Fish Nor Foul.
“The Daughter of Abomination”, ergot.press.
“The Becoming”, Cosmic Horror Monthly.
“To Be Loved”, Cursed Morsels Press.
“the serpent finds eve in every lifetime; OR, Garden Revisited”, (s)crawl magazine.
“Castle Lacrimosa”, Wickedness & Wonder Anthology, Wild Ink Publishing.
“I WISH SPRING BREAK WOULD LAST FOREVER”, Cleansing Power of Fire Anthology, Infested Publishing.
“SAINT JOE AND HIS DEVILS”, hex literary magazine.
Film and TV Series Reviews and Criticism at MovieJawn.
Conferences:
“The Aesthetics of Cain: Nick Cave as Vagabond Preacher of the Eschatological Gothic”, Mid Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association, Gothic Studies.
“Where the Monsters Live: Clive Barker’s Biopower”, University of Pittsburgh’s Horror Studies Conference.
“Body Betrays Itself: Fear, Grief, & Chronic Illness Represented Through the Posthumanist Gothic in Film”, University of Memphis’ Learning From Fear Conference.
“Describing the Indescribable: A Generative Writing Workshop”, Salem Summer Symposium.
VOIDCON 3, Existential Horror Conference: Featured Author & Panelist.
Teaching:
“Environment as Character in Weird Fiction”, Writer’s Week at The Writing Institute.
“Creating Psychologically Complex Characters”, Craft Week with The Writing Institute X Sarah Lawrence College.
“Antehuman > Antihuman: The Serpent in Cosmic Horror & Posthuman Witchcraft”, Ophidian Path Class Series, for Spiritus Arcanum.
THE RED FLESH WORKSHOPS, host, year-long writers workshop.
Residencies:
Banff Centre for Arts & Creativity Writing Residency, September 2025.
2024
Publications:
“Mother! Mother! The Dead Are Coming After Me!”, Elemental Fractions: Earth Anthology, Asteria Press.
Conferences:
“What Hath Quenched Them Hath Given Me Fire: Witchcraft in Shakespeare”, Magickal Women’s Conference.
“Perfect Organism: Cosmic Horror & Sci Fi Cinema as Grimoires for the Posthuman Age”, Salem Witchcraft & Folklore Festival.
“Black Mirror; Glass Door: Storytelling in Witchcraft & Witchcraft in Storytelling”, Salem Witchcraft & Folklore Festival
2023
Publications:
“The Invocation of Alkes,” TMA Magazine.
“Foreward”, People of the Outside, author Lee Morgan.
“Inroduction”, Starlore Astronomical Tarot, author Nitasia Roland.
Conferences:
“Sylvan-Sabbats & Night-Surgeons: Crossing the Hedge” Salem Witchcraft & Folklore Festival, Keynote Speaker.
“Red Appetites: The Monstrosity of Desire in Oscar Wilde’s Salome”, IGA: Gothic Without Borders Conference.
“Love’s Own Monster, AstroMagia, Keynote Speaker.
Teaching:
“In the Belly of the Beast”, co-taught with Maeg Keane.
Speakeasy of the Dead V, hosted by Radio Free Golgotha.
Speakeasy of the Dead IV, hosted by Radio Free Golgotha.
“Posthuman Witch”, hosted by Spiritus Arcanum.
“My Sisters Climb the Devil’s Tree”, hosted by Spiritus Arcanum.
“Desiderare//From the Stars: A Conversation on Desire”, host and participant.
2022
Publications:
“The Minotaur Moon”, TMA Magazine (digital).
“Waystations: Interview with J.M. Hamade”, TMA Magazine, Issue #222.
The Red Dreaded Spindle, monograph, Hadean Press.
Conferences:
“The Willow Weeps but Not for Me”, co-presented with Katarina Pejovic, Salem Witchcraft & Folklore Festival, Keynote Speaker.
“Once Upon a Time”, Magickal Women’s Conference.
“The Shining Ones: Folkloric Spirits & Fixed Stars”, AstroMagia, Keynote Speaker.
Teaching:
“Holy Fool & Heretical Father: Grigori Rasputin”, Mighty Dead Class Series, The Cauldron Black.
“Sanguine Pyre” Class Series, Mars in Antiquity, The Cauldron Black.
“Of Dissolution & Development” Class Series, Saturn in Antiquity, The Cauldron Black.
Speakeasy of the Dead IV, hosted by Radio Free Golgotha.
2021
Publications:
“The Mirror is Also a Blade”, TMA Magazine (digital).
“The Problem with Moving Targets”, TMA Magazine (blog).
“Endymionis somnum dormire”, TMA Magazine (print).
Conferences:
“Restless Dead, Restless Living”, Salem Witchcraft & Folklore Festival.
“Haunted Houses”, AstroMagia.
“Re-Haunting the Astronomical”, Salem Witchcraft & Folklore Festival, Panel.
“Astronomical Spirits Then & Now”, AstroMagia, Antiquity Panel.