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Photograph by M. L. DeLaFleur

A passion for social justice motivates me, which is why my writing is deeply influenced by other queer writers of color and resides at the intersection of queer theory, critical race theory, and disability justice.

I am the author of two prose books: a work of literary criticism, Queering Mennonite Literature: Archives, Activism, and the Search for Community (Penn State University Press, 2019); and a hybrid memoir/literary critical text, Ethics for Apocalyptic Times: Theapoetics, Autotheory, and Mennonite Literature (Penn State University Press, 2024).

Although much of my published writing is prose, I am also a devotee of poetry because, as William Carlos Williams writes, “It is difficult / to get the news from poems / yet [people] die miserably every day / for lack / of what is found there.” With James Knippen, I am co-author of It Breaks Your Heart: Haiku and Senryu on the 2023 New York Mets (Redheaded Press, 2024). The Selected Publications page includes links to some of my poems alongside some of my prose.

As part of my interest in archiving, I maintain the three Mennonite/s Writing bibliographies that Ervin Beck first compiled in the 1990s.

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