About: My debut poetry chapbook 'Yersinia Pestis' has been published by Los Angeles-based Bottlecap Press (September 2023)

Yersinia Pestis, the bacterium that led to the deadly medieval plague, is the eponym of this chapbook, a collection of six poems of varying length and style but similar in theme, mood and clime.

Some of these poems were written during the worst hour of the recent pandemic, while others were born in the afterglow of the carnage. But all six pieces germinated from the same idea, that human beings and the microbes that infect, envenom and slaughter them are very alike. Just like us, these invisible germs want to reproduce and thrive, with little concern for the creatures they live off.

This mix of rhymes and free verse is a meditation on the human condition as seen through the prism of disease. It’s also an ode to the existential angst, despair, disquietude and madness that the plague of our century has left in its wake. 

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About: My second poetry chapbook 'Lithium and other fairy tales' has been published by Los Angeles-based Bottlecap Press (October 2024).

This book is a collection of three types of poetry — haiku, rhyme, free verse — and a good ol’ short story.

These seven pieces of work are like seven stray threads sticking out of a garment or carpet, betraying the fabric it’s made of and the dye it is soaked in. The author’s poetry and prose lay bare her present day interiority. Her words come from a place of passionate inquiry into what it means to be among the most complex life form on the planet.

Themes that inform this work include migration, madness and misanthropy. "Lithium," the poem this collection is named after, is inspired by a book titled Robert Lowell, Setting the River on Fire: A Study of Genius, Mania, and Character, beautifully written by Kay Redfield Jamison.

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