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

Big Queer Book Club

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.