Book
Your Salt on My Lips: (Mostly) Queer Literary Erotica
e-book (Cleis Press, Sept 2021)
pink paperback (limited 1st edition, 2022)
grey paperback (Ars Salutaria Press, 2nd ed, 2023) - ask for it at your local bookshop!
IN PRINted COMPILATIONS
The Untold Gaze: Selected Paintings by Stephen O’Donnell, “Le Fumeur et Le Peintre,” Stephen O’Donnell and Gigi Little, ed., 2018
Dream Closet: Meditations on Childhood Space, “Art Dreams,” Matthew Burgess, ed. Secretary Press, 2015
Step Lightly: Poems for the Journey, “Cover Catfish” and “Cha Cha Cha,” Nancy Willard, ed. Harcourt Brace, 1998
CREATIVE NONFICTION
An Image in Lines (excerpt), visual essay, Parley Lit, Fall 2024
“Hystory, An Art Object,” So To Speak: feminist journal of literature and art, 2020
“Her Hands in Bloom,” A Room of Her Own, 2019
“Star Girl,” Pigeon Pages, 2019
"Spine to Deckle / Anatomy of a Book," Brain Mill Press, 2018
"Trompe L'Oeil," phoebe journal of literature and arts, winner of the Nonfiction Award, 2017
"That Small Black Night," MUTHA Magazine, 2017
“To Leave These Grounds,” Sinister Wisdom, 2017
"Together We Run," The Manifest Station, 2016
"An Image In Lines," Atticus Review, Water Issue, 2015
"Paper Birds," The Rumpus, 2014
"Drag Me a Mommy," NAILED Magazine, 2013
"And from the Wounds Grow Grass," Gertrude Press, vol. 19, 2013
INTERVIEWS
“Totally Biased Reviews with Asha Dore and Liz Asch” at Parley Lit on youtube, 2024
“A Smorgasbord of Smut” Katie Collins Guinn interviews me about Your Salt on My Lips and art-making, NAILED Magazine, March 2023
“Pick Your Pleasure: Talking with Liz Asch,” Alex Behr interviews me on The Rumpus, September 2021
Livestream video, Stella Harris interviews me and Lidia Yuknavitch, August 2021
Jennifer Huang interviews 5 writers on The Weird Shame of Publishing a Book, May 2022
Kayla McLoughlin interviews me about art, acupuncture, and my new book, Harpur Palate, July 2021
Miss Ruby interviews me about writing Your Salt on My Lips, 8/21/21
Lidia Yuknavitch interviews me about teaching and embodiment, January 2019
Zaji Cox interviews me with Corporeal Writing, August 2019
I interview Jon Raymond on his novel Freebird, The Rumpus, April 2017
I interview Alicia Jo Rabins on her book of poetry, Fruit Geode
Book Reviews
You'll Grow Out of It, Jessi Klein, The Rumpus
The Argonauts, Maggie Nelson, The Collagist
The Girl Who Was Saturday Night, Heather O'Neill, The Rumpus
The Doctor's Wife, Luis Jaramillo, The Rumpus
RADIO INTERVIEWS & PODCASTS
Book Release interview with Lidia Yuknavitch and Stella Harris
August McLaughlin on Girl Boner
Mind Body Radio
Body Land Metaphor Medicine (my podcast of guided visualizations)
ART
Selected works in Queer Love exhibit at Salem Art Association, Feb 2024
Art paired with Anna Reeser in Khøra Issue 22, April 2023, in four successive issues: It’s All, It’s All
Art illustrations for Meredith Talusan’s short story, “Sentences,” The Rumpus, June 2022
Art illustrations for Lishani Ramanayake’s essay, “In All the History of Wanting,” The Rumpus, 2021
Art Illustrations for Liliana Torpey’s essay “He Comes While We are Walking,” The Rumpus, 2020
Art to accompany excerpts from Gayle Brandeis's hybrid genre book Many Restless Concerns, The Rumpus, 2019
Art / Illustrations for “Love in the Belly of Beginning”, The Rumpus, 2018
Illustrations for the EEEL, 2017
poetry
“Sensorium,” New Rivers Press, Wild Gods, 2021
“Her Hands in Bloom,” A Room of Her Own, 2019
"Compass," "Heart to Heart," Oregon East, 2015
"The Fever of Burning Buildings," Perceptions Magazine of the Arts, 2014
"Falling Leaves," Four and Twenty, January 2010
ETCETERA
Last 11 Books I Read Reviewed as Color Palettes, Entropy, 2018
Deathwish 027, Deathwish series, NAILED Magazine, 2013
Frank Moore: Dreamscapes in Danger on Google Arts and Culture. Journey through an online gallery that takes a closer look at the paintings of Frank Moore. Built in collaboration with Rebecca Moore and the Gesso Foundation
What to Read When You Hunger for New Queer Voices, The Rumpus, 2021
BUST magazine, "Sex Ed," Gina Rodriguez on the cover, August 2017
BUST Magazine, "After Class," Kathleen Hannah on the cover, June/July 2016
Begging for it: Female Fantasy Erotica, "Entrée Nous," Rachel Kramer Bussel, ed. 2016
SHORT FILMS
THE LOVE SEAT, a 5 minute 16 mm stop-motion animation film, tells the love story of two lost dolls falling in love beneath the cushions of a couch. This short played at indie gay and lesbian film festivals across the country and in Canada from 1998-2000.
BAD NIGHT, a stop-motion animated love story about a lesbian butterfly and doll brawl at a nightclub, was made on Super 8 in 1996.
PRESENTS OF THE BODY, a 3-minute 16 mm stop-motion homage to the body as a work of art, was made in 1997 at Vassar College.
AWARDS & HONORS
2024 PLAYA at Summer Lake awarded artist’s residency
2024 Centrum writing residency
2024 Regional Arts & Culture Council 3 C grant
2024 Catwalk Artist Residency
2022-2023 Art/Lab 9-month awarded residency with Co/Lab Jewish Portland Artists
2018-2022 Recto/Verso: An Artist’s Portfolio— long-listed with Santa Fe Writers Project, short-listed with PANK book contest, and semi-finalist with Sundress Press
2022 Regional Arts & Culture Council awarded a Make Learn Build Grant in Literature
2022 CRAFT Creative Nonfiction Award, shortlisted for essay “Recto Verso”
2018 Pigeon Pages Essay Contest, “Star Girl” rec. honorable mention, judged by Garrard Conley
2018 Pushcart Nomination from Brain Mill Press for “Spine to Deckle / Anatomy of a Book”
2017 Willamette Writer's Kay Snow Contest, First Place for Nonfiction, “Under the Shadow,” judged by Elizabeth Lyons
2017 Phoebe Creative Nonfiction Contest, “Trompe L’Oeil,” winner, judged by Elena Passarello
2016 Montana Book Festival’s Regional Emerging Writers Contest, honorable mention
2016 Calyx’s Margarita Donnelly Prize, honorable mention
BEAUTIFUL MENTIONS
Author Alexis Pauline Gumbs mentions Body Land in her Hula Hoop Around Your Heart tribute in Southern Cultures Magazine
Poets & Writers magazine quotes real talk from a Rumpus interview about publishing Your Salt on My Lips.