“Tessa’s writing ignited something vivid and new in us, something undeniably captivating and overwhelmingly emotional.”

— Editors of Allegory Ridge

Poetry

  • Pleaser: a Novel-in-Verse, longlisted for Black Fox Literary’s First Chapters Prize

  • 5 Poems, Always Crashing (forthcoming)

  • “The Instigator,” Pomona Valley Review (forthcoming)

  • “It Pairs with Cain,” Across the Margin

  • “The Prophecies and If They Happened,” Across the Margin‍ ‍

  • “Indigo,” Across the Margin‍ ‍

  • “Selva Oscura,” Forget-Me-Not Journal (forthcoming)

  • Gold Hood Chapbook, Bottlecap Press, AVAILABLE NOW

  • “Visiting” longlisted for the Palette Poetry Prize

  • “B FLAT (A PARTING)” winner of the Red Noise Collective Poetry Prize, nominated for The Pushcart Prize

  • “Goldhood,” Voicemail Poems

  • “Five Titles,” The Sand Canyon Review

Fiction

  • BY DESIGN, Twin Flame Literary

  • MAN-MADE, published in Beyond Words Magazine and shortlisted for the Fractured Lit Ghost, Fable, and Fairy Tales Prize

  • THE ACORNS, Archipelago – The Allegory Ridge Fiction Anthology