I am a poet, scholar, researcher, and educator based in coastal Maine. I grew up in the American Southeast, where I have deep family roots. My work confronts oppressions with a personal poetics that reaches beneath the surface. Earlier poetry books, Elegiaca Americana (Littoral Books) and Enough! (Littoral Books) are of political trauma and loss in America while Dolls (2Leaf Press) plumbs gender roles in the traditional South through a trans lens. After Houses- Poetry for the Homeless and Motels Where We Lived  as well as The Photographic Uncanny: Photography, Homelessness, and Homesickness  reflect on unhoused lives. The poetry books Television  and State Fair Animals from Unicorn Press write the uncanniness of American life. My scholarship likewise is activist, with Photography and Resistance: Anticolonialist Photography in the Americas (Palgrave Macmillan 2022) honoring Indigenous American contemporary, feminist lens-based art. I am a 2021 recipient of the Maine Literary Award.