Awards
Fellow, 2025 Writers Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices @ Lambda Literary
Speculative fiction genre, working with Nisi Shawl.
“The Writers Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices is the nation’s premier LGBTQ writing residency. It is the only multi-genre writing residency devoted exclusively to emerging LGBTQ+ writers.”
Co-Winner, First Chapter Prize, 2024 Popular Fiction Awards @ Emerson College
Judge Kim McLarin: "A delightfully scary, breathtakingly sharp and surprisingly witty plunge into either grief or madness, or how grief is madness, or something else the reader will definitely keep reading to figure out."
Honorable Mention, Page-Turner Prize, 2024 Popular Fiction Awards @ Emerson College
Judge Rebecca Thorne: "Mirza is such a fun, badass character, and I love this gorgeously complex science fiction setting. The absolutely stellar writing style is what locked it for me—I think this is beautifully written, and could easily could be found on any bookshop’s shelf!"
PUBlications
What Lives Forever @ Nearest and Dearest: An Anthology of Dyke Domesticity
forthcoming November 2025
Kindness @ By Her Sword: A Sapphic Fantasy Romance Anthology
forthcoming June 2025
The Facts of the Fire @ Frazzled Lit, Issue 1
October 2024
Graveyard Grems @ Fruitslice, Issue 2: Platonic Romance & Chosen Bonds
March 2024
_____ @ Fruitslice, Issue 1: Firsts
December 2023
What the Body Admits @ Secrets of the Goat People, Issue 5: The Body Fantastic
May 2019
Book Reviews
Meet Your Next Fantasy Comfort Read: Walk Between Worlds by Samara Breger @ The Lesbrary
April 2025
Queer, Revelatory Joy in The Deep Dark by Molly Knox Ostertag @ The Lesbrary
March 2025
Horror That Lingers: We Came to Welcome You by Vincent Tirado @ The Lesbrary
February 2025
Surprise and Delight Yourself with Silk & Steel: A Queer Speculative Adventure Anthology (edited by Janine A. Southard) @ The Lesbrary
January 2025
A Bittersweet Supernatural Romp: Even Though I Knew the End by C.L. Polk @ The Lesbrary
December 2024
Finally, the Canonically Queer Lady Knight We Deserve in The Fireborne Blade by Charlotte Bond @ The Lesbrary
November 2024
Dark Academia Ft. Sapphic Longing: In the Roses of Pieria by Anna Burke @ The Lesbrary
October 2024
Stories About Brave Women Who Don’t Take Shit from Anyone: The One Hundred Nights of Hero by Isabel Greenberg @ The Lesbrary
April 2024
A Blood-Drenched Queer Space Opera for the Ages: Redsight by Meredith Mooring @ The Lesbrary
March 2024
An Ode to Burning it All Down: The Genesis of Misery by Neon Yang @ The Lesbrary
February 2024
The Lesbiana’s Guide to Catholic School by Sonora Reyes @ Page Turner Magazine
July 2022
Clear and Sincere, Any Dumb Animal Proves a Comfort (Any Dumb Animal by AE Hines) @ Gertrude Press
August 2021
Fishwives, or On Being the Women Your Mothers Warned You About (Fishwives by Sally Belerose) @ Gertrude Press
April 2021
Haunted by: Look Alive by Luiza Flynn-Goodlett @ Gertrude Press
February 2021
No Less Than Requisite: Poems for Unprecedented Times (Requisite by Tanya Holtland) @ Gertrude Press
April 2020
A Love Letter to the Universe and a Scattered, Brilliant Joyride: A Choir of Honest Killers by Buddy Wakefield @ Gertrude Press
February 2020
A glittering fragment of queerness in this ugly world: deciduous qween by Matty Layne Glasgow @ Gertrude Press
July 2019
Poems for a Rainy Day: A review of Anne Walsh Donnelly’s The Woman With an Owl Tattoo @ Gertrude Press
June 2019
A Beautiful Thing Is Never Perfect: The Gallery of Unfinished Girls by Lauren Karcz @ Women Write About Comics
August 2017
Tender Ephemera in: Other Houses by Kate Cayley @ Women Write About Comics
August 2017
No One is Alone in Being Queer: Queer, There, and Everywhere by Sarah Prager @ Women Write About Comics
June 2017