Select Works

A distorted image of a pink and purple flower with a rating overlay.

The Odds - winner of Peatsmoke Journal’s 2025 Summer Editor’s Contest

https://www.peatsmokejournal.com/2025-poetry-contest-winner/emily-portillo

Collage cover featuring an older man with a beard and pipe, red claw marks, a spider, a water droplet, and text reading 'BREAK WATER ISSUE 38,' with a background of dark and mysterious imagery.

GED - finalist for Breakwater Review’s 2025 Peseroff Poetry Prize

https://www.breakwaterreview.com/copy-8-of-seventeen-years-old-in-the-a

Graffiti mural featuring a person with a cat head, holding a balloon with an eye inside. The background has vibrant pink, purple, green, and orange colors with abstract shapes and writing that says 'ELEMENT MOEK'.

Evolution Didn’t Plan for This - runner-up for Hunger Mountain’s 2024 Ruth Stone Poetry Prize

https://hungermtn.netlify.app/issues/hunger-mtn-31/poetry

Cover of Red Wheelbarrow 2024 literary magazine featuring a portrait of a woman with a large pink tulle bow on her head, wearing a dark jacket, against a plain background.

After the 527th Anti-LGBTQ Bill This Year, I Remind Myself - semifinalist for the 2024 Red Wheelbarrow Poetry Prize

https://www.deanza.edu/english/creative-writing/documents/2024-red-wheelbarrow-eighth-annual.pdf

A neon-lit telephone booth with a young woman inside, leaning against the wall, talking on a phone, with a retro aesthetic. The words "Sand Hills" are written across the image in white script.

Paradox - finalist for the Sand Hills Magazine’s 2024 Poetry Contest

https://sandhillsmagazine.com/store/p/style-01-ej5na-wny55

Magazine cover titled 'Inverted Syntax' with colorful abstract and graphic design, featuring a central image of a yellow jello mold, a long receipt, and red and white striped flowing lines, celebrating the December 2023 issue.
Cover page of The COMSTOCK REVIEW for Fall/Winter 2023 featuring an abstract painting with red, black, white, gray, and orange brushstrokes.

The End of 31 and Ode to my Twenties - finalists for The Comstock Review’s 2023 Muriel Craft Bailey Memorial Poetry Contest

Watercolor painting of a winding road through purple mountains at sunset with a white car driving on the road and a "Rattle" game piece in the upper left corner.